What's the difference between quick and soon?

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.

Soon


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a short time; shortly after any time specified or supposed; as, soon after sunrise.
  • (adv.) Without the usual delay; before any time supposed; early.
  • (adv.) Promptly; quickly; easily.
  • (adv.) Readily; willingly; -- in this sense used with would, or some other word expressing will.
  • (a.) Speedy; quick.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But soon after aid workers departed, barrel bombs dropped by Syrian helicopters caused renewed destruction.
  • (2) Other haematological parameters remained normal, with the exception of the absolute number of lymphocytes, which initially fell sharply but soon returned to, and even exceeded, control levels.
  • (3) Accidentally discovered nearly 40 years ago as the first true antidepressants, the MAOIs soon fell into disfavor due to concerns about toxicity and seemingly lesser efficacy compared with the newer tricyclic compounds.
  • (4) But the Franco-British spat sparked by Dave's rejection of Angela and Nicolas's cunning plan to save the euro has been given wings by news the US credit agencies may soon strip France of its triple-A rating and is coming along very nicely, thank you. "
  • (5) Mechanical ventilation was soon instituted and several antibiotics and acyclovir were administered intravenously, with marked effects.
  • (6) Johnson and Campion are optimistic that marriage equality will win out, and soon.
  • (7) Tap the relevant details into Google, though, and the real names soon appear before your eyes: the boss in question, stern and yet oddly quixotic, is Phyllis Westberg of Harold Ober Associates.
  • (8) Evx-1 RNA is first detected shortly before the onset of gastrulation in a region of ectoderm containing cells that will soon be found in the primitive streak.
  • (9) There were soon tales of claimants dying after having had money withdrawn, but the real administrative problem was the explosion of appeals, which very often succeeded because many medical problems were being routinely ignored at the earlier stage.
  • (10) Will the United fans' eternal favourite soon add his voice to that of 140,000 fans?
  • (11) These cycles of treatment were repeated as soon as the hematologic restoration was complete.
  • (12) Opposition politicians such as Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam and Chee Soon Juan , brought low for daring to disagree.
  • (13) Noradrenaline turnover and metabolism are altered soon after imposing increased workload on heart.
  • (14) Isolates from patients who failed to clear the organism from their stools or who had cholera soon after tetracycline prophylaxis had increased minimum inhibitory concentrations of the drug.
  • (15) Reinduction chemotherapy was given as soon as relapse was diagnosed in the marrow.
  • (16) Giving voice to that sentiment the mass-selling daily newspaper Ta Nea dedicated its front-page editorial to what it hoped would soon be the group's demise, describing Alexopoulos' desertion as a "positive development".
  • (17) Because many individuals begin smoking soon after joining the Navy, effective prevention programs need to be implemented in recruit training and repeated in early training schools.
  • (18) The flattening of neutrophils occurred soon after settling, and was not followed by extension.
  • (19) Clinical trials in head injury will begin soon in selected centers in the United States.
  • (20) Weir soon has to hack away a cross from Bodmer which would otherwise have found Govou in the box.