What's the difference between quich and quick?

Quich


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To stir.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That day, it’s miniature quiches sprinkled liberally with dried mealworms.
  • (2) Charlton is leading the safety and quality analyses, and he’s here at the conference the day after we’ve all chowed down on mealworm quiche, to warn us that “not all insects are safe”.
  • (3) The analysis was conducted on two groups of farmers, the Spanish-speaking Ladino population found in Eastern Guatemala and the Quiche-speaking Mayan population found in the mountains of Western Guatemala.
  • (4) It just needs the data behind it to prove that.” I ask him whether I was foolish to eat the mealworm quiche.
  • (5) Risottos and quiches tend to take on a uniform, pudding-like texture."
  • (6) The dish tasted fine – the mealworms had a slightly nutty, toasted flavour and gave the quiche an extra crunch – but it still made my stomach turn.
  • (7) As well as "omelettes and eggs whenever we are allowed to serve them", he offered the vaguely continental dishes of the time: bouillabaisse, risotto, goulash, quiche Lorraine; a dozen cheeses; and a choice of various coffees and teas.
  • (8) Closure of the defect resulted in quich recovery of the patient.
  • (9) After taking a few bites, I found myself pushing the quiche to the side of my plate.
  • (10) Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death Hamish Macbeth creator MC Beaton also writes a series about Agatha Raisin, a former PR executive who moves to a village in the Cotswolds for a quiet life.
  • (11) I pulled a piece of bread off the top of my insect-free cheese sandwich and used it to cover the quiche; I didn’t want to look at the worms while I was eating the rest of my lunch.
  • (12) I'd read one of Elizabeth David 's books but I'd never seen any of the dishes she wrote about until I went to work there, things like salade niçoise, piperade, quiche, risotto and fish soup.
  • (13) But I’d survived the quiche, as well as the maggot fat at that first tasting by the Nordic Food Lab.
  • (14) Foodstuffs analysed included cheese, pate, chocolate and confectionery products, meat pies, cake, quiches and sandwiches.
  • (15) The mealworm quiche tasted fine, the mealworms had a slightly nutty, toasted flavour, but it still made my stomach turn In fact, the Nordic Food Lab’s Josh Evans and Ben Reade declared their tasting a failure, largely because the star ingredients – which came from Dutch insect farms – were nearly flavourless.
  • (16) Crepes, such as the brie with apricot, and quiches, such as ricotta, spinach and banana (£3.50) – Brazilians embrace savoury and sweet combos – are popular for brunch.
  • (17) There were more failures than triumphs: I immolated a quiche, violated a chicken and baked a chocolate cake that looked and tasted like it was made of shoes.
  • (18) To lift her spirits supporters had taped posters of her to tree trunks and laid out homemade quiche.
  • (19) I guess I’m more of an evidence-based person.” * * * Eating the mealworm quiche had given me a good sense of what the insectivores are up against.
  • (20) You can buy everything from a quiche to an app, and it’s all being run by bright young graduates.

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.

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