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quickness

/kwik/US // kwɪk //UK // (kwɪk) //

快速性,敏捷性,快速,迅速

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
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    quick·er, quick·est.

    • : done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate: a quick response.
    • : that is over or completed within a short interval of time: a quick shower.
    • : moving, or able to move, with speed:a quick fox; a quick train.
    • : swift or rapid, as motion: a quick flick of the wrist.
    • : easily provoked or excited; hasty: a quick temper.
    • : keenly responsive; lively; acute: a quick wit.
    • : acting with swiftness or rapidity: a quick worker.
    • : prompt or swift to do something: quick to respond.
    • : prompt to perceive; sensitive: a quick eye.
    • : prompt to understand, learn, etc.; of ready intelligence: a quick student.
    • : sharp: a quick bend in the road.
    • : consisting of living plants: a quick pot of flowers.
    • : brisk, as fire, flames, heat, etc.
    • : Archaic. endowed with life.having a high degree of vigor, energy, or activity.
n.名词 noun
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    • : living persons: the quick and the dead.
    • : the tender, sensitive flesh of the living body, especially that under the nails: nails bitten down to the quick.
    • : the vital or most important part.
    • : Chiefly British. a line of shrubs or plants, especially of hawthorn, forming a hedge.a single shrub or plant in such a hedge.
adv.副词 adverb
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    quick·er, quick·est.

    • : quickly.

Phrases

  • quick and the dead
  • quick as a wink
  • quick off the mark
  • quick one, a
  • quick on the draw
  • quick on the uptake
  • cut to the quick
  • (quick) on the uptake

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • The quick growth of Berkeley came to a fast halt with the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.

  • It’s more like quick questions that can be solved, and I tend to get quite a lot of that.

  • The quick history of Quartz is that the business news publisher was launched in 2012 by co-founders Seward and Kevin Delaney under Atlantic Media with the intention of covering the global economy.

  • Safari on the MacBook Air is the quickest and snappiest web browsing experience I’ve ever had.

  • After all, if becoming world-class great were quick and easy, everyone would do it.

  • He weighed only 185 pounds, but he had killer instincts and rabbit quickness and the stamina of a mule.

  • Neurologist Oliver Sacks says the syndrome helps give the Team USA goalie ‘abnormal quickness.’

  • “Abnormal quickness,” Sacks told The Daily Beast on Wednesday.

  • “With so many more head cases, quickness is the key to survival and a productive life” after a devastating injury.

  • But questionable defense and lack of explosiveness and lateral quickness may cause Fredette to "fredette about it."

  • The sharpened faculties have something of a lawyer's quickness in detecting a flaw in the indictment.

  • Born on March 29, 1769, he early distinguished himself by his precocity and his quickness of perception.

  • His linguistic cleverness was a fair specimen of his general quickness of intellect.

  • Anxiety for the fate of a purse full of gold Napoleons of forty francs each gave redoubled quickness to his steps.

  • Among the former are acuteness and quickness of vision, the power of grasping complex subjects, and a good memory.