What's the difference between apt and quick?

Apt


Definition:

  • (a.) Fit or fitted; suited; suitable; appropriate.
  • (a.) Having an habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; -- used of things.
  • (a.) Inclined; disposed customarily; given; ready; -- used of persons.
  • (a.) Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn; prompt; expert; as, a pupil apt to learn; an apt scholar.
  • (v. t.) To fit; to suit; to adapt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They have already missed the critical periods in language learning and thus are apt to remain severely depressed in language skills at best.
  • (2) The ApU analogues ApT, Apcl5U, Apbr5U, Apa5U and Apno5(2)U were synthesized with the aid of ribonuclease U2 starting from 2',3'-cyclic Ap and the respective uridine derivatives.
  • (3) The current CEO, the aptly named John Boss, took home $5.4m in salary and other compensation in 2015.
  • (4) We describe immunofluorescence microscopic studies of the amebal-plasmodial transition (APT) in Physarum polycephalum.
  • (5) The most promising clinical application of APT so far has been the monitoring of gastric emptying.
  • (6) Damage which is apt to be most cytotoxic is probably less effective as an inducer of skin cancer than is more subtle damage, which is tolerated but can initiate malignant transformation.
  • (7) Fornalini in 1984 independently revived the concept of APT using the closed method of needle induction, as later accepted.
  • (8) So really, it could be anyone.” US intelligence believes the Democratic party’s servers were hacked by a group known alternatively as Fancy Bear, APT 29 or Sofacy, which they say was working for the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence .
  • (9) A patient with an anal lesion, however, was more apt to develop small bowel disease simply because the small bowel was a far commoner site of Crohn disease in this series.
  • (10) Although most vitreous seeds were necrotic tumor cells, some were almost intact tumor cells which were apt to be situated along blood vessels.
  • (11) Recurrences, which are apt to be more common after PTA versus carotid subclavian bypass, are easily managed with repeat dilatation.
  • (12) The busy atmosphere and routine of a hospital is apt to induce apprehension in a patient about to have a surgical operation.
  • (13) Expression of the APT gene is under the control of lambda bacteriophage PL promoter.
  • (14) We are apt to know what the current situation is after ten years have passed.
  • (15) The author considers the loss of opportunities in life as an apt criterium of the vital impact of different permanent health impairments.
  • (16) Applied potential tomography (APT) or electrical impedance imaging has received considerable attention during the past few years and some in vivo images have been produced.
  • (17) The stronger the smoking habit, the less apt the smoker is to quit or maintain a nonsmoking status.
  • (18) Members of the medical profession were considered particularly apt to accurately and reliably report their personal experience with lower back pain and were therefore selected for this survey.
  • (19) The groups with low right-left ear ratios were less likely to have a somatosensory disorder than the other two groups, but they were more apt to have a language problem.
  • (20) As our understanding of the biochemical and cellular mechanisms of APT improve, a number of key clinical issues may be clarified: (1) risk factor assessment for APT, (2) criteria for early diagnosis of APT, and (3) improved therapeutic approach to patients with APT.

Quick


Definition:

  • (superl.) Alive; living; animate; -- opposed to dead or inanimate.
  • (superl.) Characterized by life or liveliness; animated; sprightly; agile; brisk; ready.
  • (superl.) Speedy; hasty; swift; not slow; as, be quick.
  • (superl.) Impatient; passionate; hasty; eager; eager; sharp; unceremonious; as, a quick temper.
  • (superl.) Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
  • (superl.) Sensitive; perceptive in a high degree; ready; as, a quick ear.
  • (superl.) Pregnant; with child.
  • (adv.) In a quick manner; quickly; promptly; rapidly; with haste; speedily; without delay; as, run quick; get back quick.
  • (n.) That which is quick, or alive; a living animal or plant; especially, the hawthorn, or other plants used in making a living hedge.
  • (n.) The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible of serious injury or keen feeling; the sensitive living flesh; the part of a finger or toe to which the nail is attached; the tender emotions; as, to cut a finger nail to the quick; to thrust a sword to the quick, to taunt one to the quick; -- used figuratively.
  • (n.) Quitch grass.
  • (v. t. & i.) To revive; to quicken; to be or become alive.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, ticks, which failed to finish their feeding and represent a disproportionately great part of the whole parasite's population, die together with them and the parasitic system quickly restores its stability.
  • (2) She was organised, good with people, very grown up and quickly proved herself to be indispensable.
  • (3) The adaptive filter processor was tested for retrospective identification of artifacts in 20 male volunteers who performed the following specific movements between epochs of quiet, supine breathing: raising arms and legs (slowly, quickly, once, and several times), sitting up, breathing deeply and rapidly, and rolling from a supine to a lateral decubitus position.
  • (4) The Pakistan government, led as usual by a general, was anxious to project the army's role as bringers of order to a country that was sliding quickly towards civil war.
  • (5) This is a struggle for the survival of our nation.” As ever, after Trump’s media dressing-down, his operation was quick to fit a velvet glove to an iron fist.
  • (6) This procedure can quickly provide acrosome-reacted bull sperm for use with various in vitro fertilization procedures and for assessment of male fertility.
  • (7) In a poll before the debate, 48% predicted that Merkel, who will become Europe's longest serving leader if re-elected on 22 September, would emerge as the winner of the US-style debate, while 26% favoured Steinbruck, a former finance minister who is known for his quick-wit and rhetorical skills, but sometimes comes across as arrogant.
  • (8) But still we have to fight for health benefits, we have to jump through loops … Why doesn’t the NFL offer free healthcare for life, especially for those suffering from brain injury?” The commissioner, however, was quick to remind Davis that benefits are agreed as part of the collective bargaining process held between the league and the players’ union, and said that they had been extended during the most recent round of negotiations.
  • (9) The cells were taken from cultures in low-density balanced exponential growth, and the experiments were performed quickly so that the bacteria were in a uniform physiological state at the time of measurement.
  • (10) "The pattern of consumption is that among ebook readers there is a desire to pre-order, or get it quickly, so ebook sales are particularly high in the first few weeks," he said.
  • (11) There is no immediate sign that returns on Cuadrilla's investments so far will be quick.
  • (12) Both of these bills include restrictions on moving terrorists into our country.” The White House quickly confirmed the president would have to sign the legislation but denied this meant that its upcoming plan for closing Guantánamo was, in the words of one reporter, “dead on arrival”.
  • (13) Both targets were found more quickly in the high-probability location than in the other locations, but the advantage associated with targets in the high-probability location was larger for the inducing target than for the test target.
  • (14) These results, in addition to binding studies with the active site titrant N2-(5-dimethylaminonaphthalene-1-sulfonyl)arginine N-(3-ethyl-1,5-pentanediyl)amide, indicate that binding interactions at the catalytic site of Thrombin Quick I are unaltered.
  • (15) Ultrasonic fragmentation through the pars plana is a quick and easy method for relieving the condition.
  • (16) After a quick look around, he too left for his hotel.
  • (17) The maximal shortening velocity (Vmax) was obtained from force-velocity relations determined by the quick-release method.
  • (18) On the basis of studies of Ca2+ transients in muscles subjected to quick release, it has been suggested that force or shortening-mediated changes in Ca2+-troponin C affinity may provide a mechanism for a contraction-activation feedback.
  • (19) A 63-year-old man, with a Waldenström's disease discovered by cryoglobulinemia (ischemic lesions of fingers) was quickly aggravating (hyperviscosity syndrome) under treatment by chlorambucil in a dosage of 8 mg daily.
  • (20) It was found that sonography was a quick and simple method.