Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
- (vanhentunut) quicke
Ääntäminen
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- Tuntematon aksentti:
- IPA: /kwɪk/
Määritelmät
Adjektiivi
- Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.
- Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.
- Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.
- Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.
- (of people or tempers) Easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
- (archaic) Alive, living.
- (archaic, of a foetus) At the stage where it can be felt to move in the uterus.
- (now rare, archaic) Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.
- (archaic, of water) Flowing, not stagnant.
- (archaic) Burning, flammable, fiery.
- (obsolete) Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
- (mining, of a vein of ore) productive; not "dead" or barren
- (crosswording) Not cryptic.
- Being a distinctively sensitive kind of glaciomarine clay that may behave like a watery fluid under stress.
Verbi
- (transitive) To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.
- (transitive, archaic, poetic) To quicken.
Substantiivi
- Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.
- Plants used in making a quickset hedge
- The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.
- (with "the", archaic) Synonym of living.
- Quitchgrass.
- (cricket) A fast bowler.
Adverbi
Esimerkit
- I ran to the station – but I wasn't quick enough.
- He's a quick runner.
- That was a quick meal.
- You have to be very quick to be able to compete in ad-lib theatrics.
- My father is old but he still has a quick wit.
- The bishop was somewhat quick with them, and signified that he was much offended.
- the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead
- Man is no star, but a quick coal / Of mortal fire.
- The inmost oratory of my soul,
- Wherein thou ever dwellest quick or dead,
- Is black with grief eternal for thy sake.
- she's quick; the child brags in her belly already: tis yours
- The air is quick there, / And it pierces and sharpens the stomach.
- Get rich quick.
- Come here, quick!
- If we consider how very quick the actions of the mind are performed.
- The works [...] are curiously hedged with quick.
- This test nippeth, [...] this toucheth the quick.
- How feebly and unlike themselves they reason when they come to the quick of the difference!
- I rose as if quicked by a spur I was bound to obey.
- A quick meal
- The quick and the dead
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | quicked | Imperfekti | quicked |
| Partisiipin preesens | quicking | Monikko | quicks |
| Komparatiivi | quicker | Superlatiivi | quickest |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | quicks |