(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.
Speedy
Definition:
(superl.) Not dilatory or slow; quick; swift; nimble; hasty; rapid in motion or performance; as, a speedy flight; on speedy foot.
Example Sentences:
(1) In both situations, speedy intervention is essential to prevent irreversible damage.
(2) So it’s comforting to note that Spectre seems to be offering a significant upgrade: the trailer shows Q introducing Bond to his new ultra-speedy Aston Martin DB10, and promising it boasts a “few tricks”.
(3) These patients require speedy diagnosis before total paralysis is established.
(4) Speedy processing and prompt telephone calls afforded opportunities to replace these with better specimens, but only 29% of rejected specimens were resubmitted.
(5) Equally, you can still get a perfectly posh bag for around £600 – Louis Vuitton’s Speedy bags, for a start, are still well under a grand.
(6) Arsenal are clinging to the hope that, like Olivier Giroud, who returned as a goal-scoring substitute in the 2-1 loss to United weeks ahead of schedule after fracturing his tibia in late August, Wilshere could yet surprise people and make a speedy recovery.
(7) A wire with a precisely engineered thread and threaded nylon nut are described as an accurate, speedy and simple alternative to the arch bars and wires method of immobilizing the jaw while greatly reducing the chances of trauma to the surgeon.
(8) The dissection is simple, speedy and straight foreward.
(9) "Our thoughts are with Aaron at this time and everyone at the club wishes him all the best in making as speedy a return to action as possible."
(10) On-site use of the microcomputer contributed to increased monitoring efficiency and trialist motivation, resulting in rapid recruitment of patients, collection of high quality data and speedy analysis at the end of the study.
(11) A British exit from the EU will lead straight into a model like Norway, as Britain seems still to want speedy access to the 500–plus million EU consumer market.
(12) I wish you a speedy recovery my friend.” Peter Lovenkrands (@lovenkrands11) Can't believe the news about my good friend @elgalgojonas testicle cancer😔 i wish you a speedy recovery my Friend🙏👊😘 #SpiderMan #Nufc September 16, 2014 The former Newcastle goalkeeper Steve Harper added: “Buena suerte a mi amigo Jonas with his battle with testicular cancer.
(13) The result – and Mitchell’s speedy response – brings to an end a two-year campaign to clear his name which was launched when friends invoked the memory of Margaret Thatcher to persuade him to come out fighting after he lost his job as chief whip.
(14) The government, however, pushed that aside and said it would enact the changes itself in the "wash-up" process in the House of Commons in order to ensure that the bill continued its speedy passage through parliament.
(15) While the defender has had a dismaying run of layoffs over the past three seasons there is optimism at the club that Kompany can make a speedy recovery as the current problem is not a recurrence of any previous one.
(16) Hundreds more, including Morsi, have been sentenced to death after speedy trials, which the UN denounced as “unprecedented in recent history”.
(17) To appreciate what is at stake we have to track back to amendments to the NSW Evidence Act in 1995, following the collapse of the cases against Jay Thomas Hart on charges of murdering Clinton Speedy-Dutroux and Evelyn Greenup.
(18) I am sending condolences to the families of those murdered and wishes of a speedy recovery to the wounded,” the Israeli leader said.
(19) Following embolization, the patient made a speedy recovery from the sepsis and no recurrent bleeding was noted.
(20) You panic but it's no good "getting on the bell" – unless you're dying – and, even then, don't hope for a speedy response.