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quickest
(mass) | quickest
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quickest
(encz) | quickest,nejrychleji Zdeněk Brož |
quickest
(encz) | quickest,nejrychlejší adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Quickest
(gcide) | Quick \Quick\, a. [Compar. Quicker; superl. Quickest.] [As.
cwic, cwicu, cwucu, cucu, living; akin to OS. quik, D. kwik,
OHG. quec, chec, G. keck bold, lively, Icel. kvikr living,
Goth. qius, Lith. q[=y]vas, Russ. zhivoi, L. vivus living,
vivere to live, Gr. bi`os life, Skr. j[imac]va living,
j[imac]v to live. Cf. Biography, Vivid, Quitch grass,
Whitlow.]
1. Alive; living; animate; -- opposed to dead or
inanimate.
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Not fully quyke, ne fully dead they were. --Chaucer.
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The Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and
the dead at his appearing and his kingdom. --2 Tim.
iv. 1.
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Man is no star, but a quick coal
Of mortal fire. -- Herbert.
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Note: In this sense the word is nearly obsolete, except in
some compounds, or in particular phrases.
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2. Characterized by life or liveliness; animated; sprightly;
agile; brisk; ready. " A quick wit." --Shak.
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3. Speedy; hasty; swift; not slow; as, be quick.
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Oft he to her his charge of quick return
Repeated. --Milton.
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4. Impatient; passionate; hasty; eager; eager; sharp;
unceremonious; as, a quick temper.
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The bishop was somewhat quick with them, and
signified that he was much offended. -- Latimer.
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5. Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
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The air is quick there,
And it pierces and sharpens the stomach. -- Shak.
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6. Sensitive; perceptive in a high degree; ready; as, a quick
ear. "To have an open ear, a quick eye." --Shak.
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They say that women are so quick. --Tennyson.
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7. Pregnant; with child. --Shak.
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Quick grass. (Bot.) See Quitch grass.
Quick match. See under Match.
Quick vein (Mining), a vein of ore which is productive, not
barren.
Quick vinegar, vinegar made by allowing a weak solution of
alcohol to trickle slowly over shavings or other porous
material.
Quick water, quicksilver water.
Quick with child, pregnant with a living child.
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Syn: Speedy; expeditious; swift; rapid; hasty; prompt; ready;
active; brisk; nimble; fleet; alert; agile; lively;
sprightly.
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quickest
(wn) | quickest
adv 1: most quickly [syn: quickest, fastest] |
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quickest
(mass) | quickest
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quickest
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Curve of quickest descent
(gcide) | Curve \Curve\, n. [See Curve, a., Cirb.]
1. A bending without angles; that which is bent; a flexure;
as, a curve in a railway or canal.
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2. (Geom.) A line described according to some low, and having
no finite portion of it a straight line.
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Axis of a curve. See under Axis.
Curve of quickest descent. See Brachystochrone.
Curve tracing (Math.), the process of determining the
shape, location, singular points, and other peculiarities
of a curve from its equation.
Plane curve (Geom.), a curve such that when a plane passes
through three points of the curve, it passes through all
the other points of the curve. Any other curve is called a
curve of double curvature, or a twisted curve.
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quickest
(wn) | quickest
adv 1: most quickly [syn: quickest, fastest] |
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