quick
Because it is a word with a single syllable, quick is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofquick
- 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.
- Quitchgrass.
- A fast bowler.
- To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.
- To quicken.
- Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.
Example: "He's a quick runner."
- Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.
Example: "That was a quick meal."
- Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.
Example: "You have to be very quick to be able to compete in ad-lib theatrics."
- Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.
Example: "My father is old but he still has a quick wit."
- Of temper: easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
Example: "He is wont to be rather quick of temper when tired."
- Alive, living.
- Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.
- Of water: flowing.
- Burning, flammable, fiery.
- Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
- (of a vein of ore) productive; not "dead" or barren
- Quickly, in a quick manner.
Example: "Come here, quick!"
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