'quickly
World English Dictionary
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| —adj | |
| 1. | (of an action, movement, etc) performed or occurring during a comparatively short time: a quick move |
| 2. | lasting a comparatively short time; brief: a quick flight |
| 3. | accomplishing something in a time that is shorter than normal: a quick worker |
| 4. | characterized by rapidity of movement; swift or fast: a quick walker |
| 5. | immediate or prompt: a quick reply |
| 6. | (postpositive) eager or ready to perform (an action): quick to criticize |
| 7. | responsive to stimulation; perceptive or alert; lively: a quick eye |
| 8. | eager or enthusiastic for learning: a quick intelligence |
| 9. | easily excited or aroused: a quick temper |
| 10. | skilfully swift or nimble in one's movements or actions; deft: quick fingers |
| 11. | archaic |
| a. alive; living | |
| b. (as noun) living people (esp in the phrase the quick and the dead) | |
| 12. | archaic, dialect or lively or eager: a quick dog |
| 13. | (of a fire) burning briskly |
| 14. | composed of living plants: a quick hedge |
| 15. | dialect (of sand) lacking firmness through being wet |
| 16. | archaic quick with child pregnant, esp being in an advanced state of pregnancy, when the movements of the fetus can be felt |
| —n | |
| 17. | any area of living flesh that is highly sensitive to pain or touch, esp that under a toenail or fingernail or around a healing wound |
| 18. | the vital or most important part (of a thing) |
| 19. | short for quickset |
| 20. | cut someone to the quick to hurt someone's feelings deeply; offend gravely |
| —adv | |
| 21. | in a rapid or speedy manner; swiftly |
| 22. | soon: I hope he comes quick |
| —interj | |
| 23. | a command requiring the hearer to perform an action immediately or in as short a time as possible |
| [Old English cwicu living; related to Old Saxon quik, Old High German queck, Old Norse kvikr alive, Latin vīvus alive, Greek bios life] | |
| 'quickly | |
| —adv | |
| 'quickness | |
| —n | |
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'quickly
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
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