(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.
Quirk
Definition:
(n.) A sudden turn; a starting from the point or line; hence, an artful evasion or subterfuge; a shift; a quibble; as, the quirks of a pettifogger.
(n.) A fit or turn; a short paroxysm; a caprice.
(n.) A smart retort; a quibble; a shallow conceit.
(n.) An irregular air; as, light quirks of music.
(n.) A piece of ground taken out of any regular ground plot or floor, so as to make a court, yard, etc.; -- sometimes written quink.
(n.) A small channel, deeply recessed in proportion to its width, used to insulate and give relief to a convex rounded molding.
Example Sentences:
(1) There is religious freedom in Britain – some would say too much: 26 bishops sit in the House of Lords on a historic quirk.
(2) A quirk of the General Chiropractic Council's rules means that chiropractors who make claims that are incompatible with previous Advertising Standards Authority rulings must be investigated by the regulator.
(3) From time to time I'd bump into Amy she had good banter so we could chat a bit and have a laugh, she was a character but that world was riddled with half-cut, doped-up chancers, I was one of them, even in early recovery I was kept afloat only by clinging to the bodies of strangers so Winehouse, but for her gentle quirks didn't especially register.
(4) The 8,000 –2,000 children and young people over the course of a year and 6,000 older and disabled adults – are users of social care services in Quirk’s borough of Lewisham.
(5) But if Microsoft can iron out some performance quirks around voice recognition and Snap, the decision won't be too hard: it's far easier to glimpse the future potential in the Xbox One, starting with 10 seconds of time and the simple two-word voice command: 'Xbox on.'"
(6) Any quirk in the way a small number of people on our schemes are counted makes little difference.
(7) It could be that grouping makes sense, especially when you think of how very specialist some services are becoming, such as commissioning for dementia care,” says Quirk.
(8) But vampires and zombies are old news, according to Quirk.
(9) Fake or misleading news spreads like wildfire on Facebook because of confirmation bias, a quirk in human psychology that makes us more likely to accept information that conforms to our existing world views.
(10) A detail-rich paint job and enough sounds and quirks are able to convince you, with a touch of the suspension of disbelief, that he is more than just an expensive chunk of plastic.
(11) All are taking on the expansive driving genre introduced by Test Drive Unlimited and reworking it for next-gen hardware, but right now it's difficult to tease out the individual quirks amid all that brushed aluminium and lasciviously winking lens flare.
(12) As she remembers her years at a kind of country boarding school called Hailsham, the quirks of her narration nudge the reader to guess at what she is not telling us.
(13) Brin, who is more sociable than Page, has his own quirks.
(14) Thanks to the labyrinthine quirks of our electoral system, none of this may get in the way of a "win" in 2015.
(15) Comedy While the French were being amused by the subtle quirks of Tati's Monsieur Hulot, the English were clutching their sides at large-breasted women losing their bikinis, and men saying "phwoooar" or "oooh" a lot.
(16) A UK remake is reportedly on the way, which in my opinion is redundant, although it does boast a fine cast including Pauline Quirke and John Challis.
(17) There was also a $5m lawsuit (from Trump, of all quirks, as opposed to the orangutan species).
(18) And this, by a happy quirk of fate, is also Emmanuelle Riva's 86th birthday.
(19) Pancreatic enzyme products are formulated, manufactured, and sold without submitting efficacy or bioavailability data to the Food and Drug Administration because of a quirk in the law.
(20) Economists often concern themselves with distortions created by quirks in the tax code or barriers to trade, but the losses from having an economy operate below full employment dwarf these inefficiencies.