quickとは

発音

• IPA^(key): /kwɪk/
• 韻: -ɪk

形容詞

quick (comparative quicker, superlative quickest)

1. Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.

   I ran to the station – but I wasn't quick enough.

   He's a quick runner.

2. Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.

   That was a quick meal.

3. Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.

   You have to be very quick to be able to compete in ad-lib theatrics.

4. Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.

   My father is old but he still has a quick wit.

5. Of temper: easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
   • Latimer

     The bishop was somewhat quick with them, and signified that he was much offended.

6. (archaic) Alive, living.
   • Bible, 2 Timothy iv. 1

     the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead

   • Herbert

     Man is no star, but a quick coal / Of mortal fire.

   • 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, X

     The inmost oratory of my soul,

     Wherein thou ever dwellest quick or dead,

     Is black with grief eternal for thy sake.

7. (archaic) Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.
   • Shakespeare

     she's quick; the child brags in her belly already: tis yours

8. Of water: flowing.
9. Burning, flammable, fiery.
10. Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
    • Shakespeare

      The air is quick there, / And it pierces and sharpens the stomach.

11. (mining, of a vein of ore) productive; not "dead" or barren

同意語

• (moving with speed): fast, speedy, rapid, swift
• See also Thesaurus:speedy

反意語

• (moving with speed): slow

派生語

副詞

quick (comparative quicker, superlative quickest)

1. quickly
2. (colloquial) with speed

   Get rich quick.

   Come here, quick!

   • John Locke

     If we consider how very quick the actions of the mind are performed.

派生語

• right quick

名詞

quick (複数形 quicks)

1. raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.
2. plants used in making a quickset hedge
   • Evelyn

     The works […] are curiously hedged with quick.

3. The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.
   • Latimer

     This test nippeth, […] this toucheth the quick.

   • Fuller

     How feebly and unlike themselves they reason when they come to the quick of the difference!

4. quitchgrass

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Tennyson to this entry?)

5. (cricket) A fast bowler.

派生語

動詞

quick (三人称単数 現在形 quicks, 現在分詞 quicking, 過去形および過去分詞形 quicked)

1. (transitive) To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.
2. (transitive, archaic, poetic) To quicken.
   • Thomas Hardy

     I rose as if quicked by a spur I was bound to obey.

参照

• quick in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• quick in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913