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Doublet of jiva." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.\nI ran to the station – but I wasn't quick enough.\nHe's a quick runner." }, { "mean": "Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.\nThat was a quick meal." }, { "mean": "Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.\nYou have to be very quick to be able to compete in ad-lib theatrics." }, { "mean": "Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.\nMy father is old but he still has a quick wit." }, { "mean": "Of temper: easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.\nHe is wont to be rather quick of temper when tired.\n1549, Hugh Latimer, The Sixth Sermon Preached Before King Edward, April 6 1549\nThe bishop was somewhat quick with them, and signified that he was much offended." }, { "mean": "(archaic) Alive, living.\n1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, 2 Timothy 4:1, column 2:I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Ieſus Chriſt, who ſhall iudge the quicke and the dead at his appearing, and his kingdome:\n1633, George Herbert, The Temple\nMan is no star, but a quick coal / Of mortal fire.\n1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, X\nThe inmost oratory of my soul,\nWherein thou ever dwellest quick or dead,\nIs black with grief eternal for thy sake." }, { "mean": "(now rare, archaic) Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.\nc. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :she's quick; the child brags in her belly already: tis yours\nSection 316, Penal Code (Cap. 224, 2008 Ed.) (Singapore)\nWhoever does any act under such circumstances that if he thereby caused death he would be guilty of culpable homicide, and does by such act cause the death of a quick unborn child, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years, and shall also be liable to fine.\n2012, Jerry White, London in the Eighteenth Century, Bodley Head 2017, p. 385:\nWhen sentenced she sought to avoid hanging by declaring herself with child – ironically, given her favourite deception – but a ‘jury of Matrons’ found her not quick." }, { "mean": "Of water: flowing." }, { "mean": "Burning, flammable, fiery." }, { "mean": "Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.\nc. 1607–1608, William Shakeſpeare, The Late, And much admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. , London: Imprinted at London for Henry Goſſon,  , published 1609, →OCLC, : the ayre is quicke there, / And it perces and ſharpens the ſtomacke," }, { "mean": "(mining, of a vein of ore) productive; not \"dead\" or barren" } ] }, { "name": "Adverb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Quickly, in a quick manner.\nGet rich quick.\nCome here, quick!\n1689 (indicated as 1690), , An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. , London: Eliz Holt, for Thomas Basset, , →OCLC:If we consider how very quick the actions of the mind are performed." }, { "mean": "Answer quickly.\n2006, SpongeBob SquarePants, Whale of a Birthday\nQuick, how do you spell 'Krabs'?" } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails." }, { "mean": "Plants used in making a quickset hedge\n1641, John Evelyn, diary entry September 1641\nThe works are curiously hedged with quick." }, { "mean": "The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.\n1550, Hugh Latimer, Sermon Preached at Stamford, 9 October 1550\nThis test nippeth, this toucheth the quick.\n1655, Thomas Fuller, James Nichols, editor, The Church History of Britain, , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), new edition, London: for Thomas Tegg and Son, , published 1837, →OCLC:\nHow feebly and unlike themselves they reason when they come to the quick of the difference!" }, { "mean": "Quitchgrass.\n1850, , In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, , →OCLC, canto LXXXVIII:Wild bird, whose warble, liquid sweet, Rings Eden thro' the budded quicks" }, { "mean": "(cricket) A fast bowler." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid." }, { "mean": "(transitive, archaic, poetic) To quicken.\n1917', Thomas Hardy, At the Word 'Farewell\nI rose as if quicked by a spur I was bound to obey." } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "형용사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "부사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }