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[kwik-lee]

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adverb

with speed; rapidly; very soon.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English quikly. See quick, -ly

Can be confused: fast, quick, quickly, rapid, swift (see synonym and usage notes at quick).

Usage note
See quick.

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I've always been impressed, well alarmed really, at how quickly the right wing jumps on an issue almost in unison.

Instead, the length of some courses will be based on how quickly students can master the subject, he said.

America's politicians are scrambling to get the unemployment rate down quickly.

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I've always been impressed, well alarmed really, at how quickly the right wing jumps on an issue almost in unison.

Instead, the length of some courses will be based on how quickly students can master the subject, he said.

America's politicians are scrambling to get the unemployment rate down quickly.

The new findings could boost hopes for species whose habitats are quickly changing due to climate change, experts say.

The researchers contend that the adult brain is thus more changeable more quickly than anyone thought.

Hunt suspected that humans alone could not destroy the forests this quickly.

Boned thighs soak up a coconut marinade and cook quickly on the grill.

The world of children's digital books is quickly becoming as densely populated as the rest of the app world, if not more so.

In exchange, she said, universities need to push students to do better to earn their degrees more quickly.

There is also the question of how quickly such a link could be built.

Without trees to fill these roles, many former forest lands can quickly become barren deserts.

When you go to a fast-food restaurant, you expect to get your fries quickly.

If you're trying to convince your boss to let you telecommute, you quickly run into a data problem.

Bake these thick cookies for a shorter time at a high temperature to firm them quickly and minimize spreading.

They're showing all the signs of refusing to cooperate or choose an obvious side so as to let you go through quickly.

Flexibility and ability to quickly solve problems is necessary.

The new prime minister has quickly put his stamp on government.

The lobsters also quickly spit out opaline-laced shrimp.

Valium and other benzodiazepine drugs work quickly to ease anxiety.

Nima quickly gets tangled up in a race to escape the island alive.

If you use scissors to snip off only the leaves you need, the plant will quickly grow new ones for additional harvests.

The materials that were better heat conductors would melt the butter more quickly.

If borrowers earn a lot, their payments rise accordingly, and their loans are retired quickly.

Today's phoney war could quickly turn into a real dogfight.

Raised without human contact, they quickly revert to a wild state and form colonies wherever food and shelter are available.

Wildfires can quickly rage out of control, wreaking destruction for miles.

Those postal covers were sold a couple of months after the flight and quickly became public knowledge.

The pressure's on to find ways to create popular dishes quickly and easily at home.

When an amphibian shot out its lightning-fast tongue to eat a larva, the larva quickly bobbed its head to dodge the attack.

Virtually anything that caused stress disoriented them, and they quickly descended into pre-meltdown conditions.

Evidence from past deep recessions suggests that unemployment is unlikely to fall as quickly as it has risen.

The results also show how quickly physical adaptations can be reversed when interbreeding occurs between distinct populations.

For people who suffer from debilitating migraine headaches, advances toward alleviating their agony can't come quickly enough.

The resulting hybrid matures more quickly than a purebred plains spadefoot, boosting survival, but it is less fertile-a trade-off.

Sunflowers grow quickly and are easy to tend?that's why they're favorites with children.

There's nothing wrong with absorbing information quickly and in bits and pieces.

Students are also tested on their ability to quickly scan and identify a list of internal organs.

When its people recognise a challenge and agree on a solution, they often act quickly and in unison.

Moro was able to dig himself free and quickly helped his partners dig themselves out in a matter of minutes.

Conflicts were resolved quickly and in a manner perceived as fair by the students.

As in those jobs, they are occasionally called on to move quickly.

Flowers dry up quickly in hot weather more add to my plant list enlarge.

Getting under-developed countries wired as quickly as possible isn't so easy, and maybe isn't desirable.

Minor slights of the past are quickly resurrected once an internal candidate makes the shortlist.

They have the financial clout to venture abroad, and seem inclined to do so quickly.

Unlike fossil fuels derived from crude oil, biofuels are organic sources of energy that replenish naturally and quickly.

The situation quickly led to questions about why this company failed.

Maiden serves his corn bread with a quickly vanishing lump of butter sweetened with sorghum syrup.

Though ground covers are tough, they'll grow and spread more quickly if you prepare the planting area carefully.

Multiply that by a number of different applications and you can see how this problem gets out of hand quickly.

Mind maps allow you to gather, manage, and share a wide variety of information and resources quickly and easily.

Or take the biggest point in the government's favour: that it has not printed money as quickly and eagerly as at first feared.

Scientists are already seeing some of these changes occurring more quickly than they had expected.

Affected mothers quickly entered into estrus, ultimately perpetuating the three-year cycle of infant population boom and bust.

He did, and the resulting photograph was quickly on its way to being published worldwide.

Seeds germinate quickly and plants grow with little fuss.

Just a decade ago, the idea of moving money that quickly and cheaply would have been ridiculous.

The snag with all these ideas is that the data are not widely and quickly available.

The sound is produced when it quickly closes the claw.

Elephants quickly learned to cooperate as a pair on a task that brought them a food reward.

Others quickly jumped in with their own preferred visions of prehistoric life.

Turn the palm of your throwing hand toward you, then quickly twist your hand outward and up to launch the dough into the air.

It's used to aerate red wines to quickly improve its character.

But any temptation to brag about successes should quickly be tempered by humility over two things.

The gradient of the river-how quickly it drops-helps define the steepness of the sides and the width of the floor.

They quickly make themselves dependent on canes or wheelchairs.

Optimistically, there's a chance that if the governments acted really quickly they could get diclofenac out of the system.

Starting at the tip, peel leaf quickly away from chocolate.

Calls to crowdsource spy drones and combat vehicles quickly followed.

The grow quickly, reproduce quickly and metabolize waste into energy quickly making them practically the perfect solutions.

Unfortunately, many cities are failing to provide such services to their quickly growing populations, observers say.

The details of viral replication quickly fell into place.

Other research has looked at the effect of music on how much and how quickly people eat.

Once established, these plants are highly drought tolerant, but quickly adapt to regular lawn watering.

As quickly as gadgets evolve, their knockoffs do, too.

Composting occurs quickly in piles that reach high temperatures.

McDowell, examining the poor woman by candlelight, realized quickly that she wasn't pregnant.

Tends toward multiple trunks and excessive bushiness but responds quickly to pruning.

Pure hydrazine is unstable in air and quickly decomposes, generally within minutes to hours.

At first, it seemed a clever gimmick, the kind of thing that is fun for a while but quickly becomes tiresome.

It cooks quickly and is a lean source of protein and iron.

Worms eat kitchen scraps, quickly turning your waste into rich, dark compost.

The toxin was found to quickly kill sharks, but only when injected directly into a shark's mouth.

Small enough to fit almost anywhere, adding a blast of color quickly.

But the evaporating oil also created tiny particles known as aerosols, which don't disappear so quickly.

Your family and friends will wake up quickly after getting a whiff of these fluffy pancakes.

For example, some galaxies are stretched as they quickly slide past each other.

Many asters aren't good vase candidates because they wilt too quickly when cut.

Kennedy wanted to fire his torpedoes, but he and the crew couldn't get the boat to respond quickly enough.

Arugula grows quickly and flourishes in cool weather.

In a fast-moving global economy, the knowledge and skills people learn must be relevant, purposeful and quickly adaptable.

Europe needs a bolder, broader solution-and quickly.

These beds warm up quickly in spring, and even bloom fast.

But attention quickly turned to what many consider the.

Seasonal plants, including possibly the world's important grains, can adapt relatively quickly to climate change.

Researchers claim that people with names at the end of the alphabet respond more quickly to purchasing opportunities.

For some people, getting quickly through programs that provide solid labor market credentials is by far the best strategy.

He shoots quickly with a digital camera and asks actors to wear their own clothes.

When your baby's health is in question, you want answers as quickly and as painlessly as possible.

Professionals quickly confirmed the sighting and started aiming their powerful telescopes at the.

Setting short-term goals then quickly testing to see if they will bear fruit is similarly absurd.

The news media quickly reported our respective salaries as items that were strike-worthy from the state's budget.

But it was quickly apparent to me how many paintings and sculptures had been ripped or shattered.

The search committee encouraged me to quickly resubmit a letter of intent for the chairmanship.

Only a few candidates have slid downwards so quickly in popular estimation.

Some salamanders take great risks in order to grow more quickly and become too large for predators to eat, a new study reports.

Without such screening, the brain would quickly be overwhelmed by the sheer number of stimuli.

Though his hometown quickly bans it, the calliope becomes the signature sound of riverboats and circus parades.

Floating homes and boats could quickly provide earthquake proof homes.

In terms of presenting large amounts of information quickly and digestibly, an infographic is hard to beat.

The computation involved must be done fast, since the mirror has to respond much more quickly than the blink of an eye.

Most feared are explosive eruptions that can quickly envelope their surroundings with clouds of killer heat.

Scientists move a step closer to making a seasonal flu preventative that can be produced quickly and does.

Withstands neglect and poor light but responds quickly to better light, regular watering and fertilizing add to my plant list.

Following the second world war many countries reduced debt quickly without messy defaults or painful austerity.

At the site, the team quickly uncovered about six children's skeletons, and upon further investigation discovered many more.

What with the wooden flashlight and now this solar-powered radio, it's quickly turning into eco-Wednesday.

Junior faculty members find that they must publish more and publish quickly.

The test is about how quickly the mice can learn and remember the whereabouts of the platform.

What began as a gentle trembling of the ground quickly grew strong enough to shake buildings.

Researchers will soon be offering a simple test that aims to tell patients how quickly they are aging.

T hese low-growing plants with little yellow daisies start easily and quickly from seed planted in flats or sown in place.

Egypt has quickly learned that turning over power is much more difficult than previously expected.

The capsule quickly sank and those remaining inside died.

Friction wears out parts quickly and raises the energy expended in moving them.

When the quolls eat large cane toads, the quolls are quickly poisoned and die.

Make the mix for this dried-fruit-and-nut–studded oatmeal ahead of time, to quickly satisfy morning hunger out in the wilderness.

But the value of its nonlinear approach quickly becomes clear.

We're quickly headed toward a future in which college students will either be super achievers or unprepared for the workplace.

Its banks and public finances are sound, and the economy recovered quickly and.

Seeing no oncoming cars, he quickly stuck out his arm as a signal and made an abrupt left onto the cross street.

Age, occupation, income and social status quickly dissolve in the woods.

Although they tend to be short lived, they grow quickly and put on a good show.

It's a box in which all your notifications are shown, letting you quickly check on what has happened since you last looked.

With a hand on each manuscript, eyes darting back and forth, he quickly scans the pages.

AeroGrow's included convincing displays of greens growing twice as quickly in an aeroponics machine as they did in soil.

Williams retired from piracy a year later, but quickly grew bored.

Its initial promise quickly got a cold shower of real life in the developing world.

Instead of cherry tomatoes, you can use larger tomatoes cut into pieces so they cook quickly and release their juices to form.

Technology moves quickly but the number of manufacturers remains small.

Yudof praised the leaders, however, for quickly starting investigations of the incidents on their campuses.

Once a mistake has been made and detected, people quickly snap out of the default mode.

Farmers say such steps are necessary since cheetahs can quickly kill dozens of sheep in unguarded pens known as kraals.

Great idea that should be ushered in quickly and then work out the kinks.

They quickly channel water, and anyone caught in the current, away from shore.

Rain really beats down pansy flowers, but violas bounce back quickly.

However, such systems might never be sensitive enough to uncover small leaks quickly.

They're currently pushing to cycle folks through the program more quickly.

Although there is no shortage of companies for sale, consolidation is unlikely to happen quickly.

Hut-to-hut travel is quickly becoming a favorite among the peculiar species known as mountain bikers.

The ability to retrieve memories quickly also slides.

It's still sustainable because bycatch is minimal and can be quickly released.

His professional life revolved around developing new ways to share information easily and quickly.

It was thrown up quickly in little more than a year, and many of the buildings were made with a mixture of hemp and plaster.

But many industry observers think the fall in local prices may quickly evaporate.

To escape this fate, the butterfly quickly moves toward an exit, shedding white scales from its new wings as it goes.

But if you try to talk to him, it will quickly become obvious that something is.

They were quickly revered as images of superb technical and artistic quality.

They quickly embraced low-water gardening practices.

Such plasticity allows the birds to respond quickly to climate change.

But research moves quickly these days in the realm of.

It also means putting pressure on the courts to deal with bankruptcy as quickly as possible.

Orphanages linger in the popular imagination as unnatural relics, places from which neglected children need to be quickly rescued.

COLLAPSE

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World English Dictionary

quick (kwɪk)

—*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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