English English Dictionary

quick in English:

1. quickly

Come quickly.

I think if I talked more often with a native speaker, my English skills would improve quickly.

Make your airplane reservations early since flights fill up quickly around Christmas.

While light waves travel most quickly through air, they go slower through water and even slower through glass.

Quickly stop the flow of milk, leave to stand for approximately 30 minutes for the milk to solidify.

I preferred wearing my Hawaiian T-shirt and green shorts to be cool and different, but I quickly got used to the white shirt and black slacks.

Woe to who be alone, my friends. It seems that social isolation quickly destroys one's reason.

Ruby on Rails is an agile development platform, which means we can respond to feedback from our customers very quickly.

It is foreseen that, due to the decline in grain production, China will quickly become a world leading grain importing country, overtaking Japan.

Please prepare a CD player so that you can quickly playback the sound you want to record.

It's hot, so you'd better head back quickly. Mackerel goes off so fast that they coined 'fresh-looking rotten fish'.

Anders had the fewest toys out of anyone in his class, which motivated him to make friends quickly.

I have come to realize that China is developing quickly but the Chinese people live a relatively leisurely life.

While Eugene is busy translating sentences from Russian to English, I'll quickly add some Belorussian translations and jump ahead of Uyghur.

Sometimes, many problems and a lot of stress can lead you to quit your job. You must learn how to handle it quickly.

English word "quick"(quickly) occurs in sets:

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2. fast

He's fast.

Malicious gossip spreads like wildfire. I guess that's why they say bad news travels fast.

We drove too fast to enjoy the beautiful scenery.

At first, I had difficulty understanding people when they spoke too fast.

The urban population in most developing countries is increasing very fast.

I wish you wouldn't drive so fast. You're making the baby sick!

You're speaking a little too fast for me. Would you speak a little more slowly?

A good ballboy or ballgirl must be able to concentrate hard and run fast.

Fast is the opposite of "slow."

It was surprising to see how fast the child grew up.

A fast child may win the race, but even a slow child can compete.

A fast walker can walk six kilometers in an hour.

What's your favorite fast food restaurant?

Tom loves coming here since he thinks this place serves the only fast food worth eating.

What surprised me most about that accident is how fast the lawyers arrived on the scene.

English word "quick"(fast) occurs in sets:

ways to avoid using the word 'very'

3. at

I'm at the hospital. I got struck by lightning.

How many times a day do you look at yourself in the mirror?

I'm good at Japanese.

I'm thinking about complaining about my son's teacher at the kindergarten.

To the best of my knowledge, the lake is the deepest at this point.

He did something stupid and was sneered at.

Happiness depends not so much on circumstances as on one's way of looking at one's lot.

You went to bed at 2 o'clock in the morning? No wonder you look sleepy today.

Do you mind if I call on you sometime? "No, not at all."

School begins at half past eight except on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

At first I felt a bit too shy to speak to her.

At the party the other night, my brother drank a bit too much and passed out.

At Narita Airport, I ran into an old friend of mine.

When I was a kid, touching bugs didn't bother me a bit. Now I can hardly stand looking at pictures of them.

Her composition had no grammatical errors at all.

4. To go faster

5. hasty

He had a hasty breakfast.

Let's not make any hasty decisions. Let's sleep on it.

I ate a hasty lunch.

She was a bit hasty in answering me.

They said a hasty goodbye before...

... potatoes or rice, making hasty pudding, and a few...

There is no need to draw a hasty conclusion.

Hasty marriage seldom succeeds.

Being a hasty person, he is likely to jump to conclusions.

He was hasty and now he has to pay the consequences.

His departure was quite hasty

Don't do anything hasty or you'll regret it. (Nie rób niczego pochopnego, bo tego pożałujesz.)

hasty decision

We saw the rain and made a hasty retreat into the bar. I think perhaps we were a little hasty in judging him.

I’m afraid I have made a hasty decision in sacking Hugh before listening to him.

English word "quick"(hasty) occurs in sets:

poziom c1, znane slowka

6. untrained doctor

7. very fast

English word "quick"(very fast) occurs in sets:

very + adjective

8. swift

Your moves have to be swift if you want to win.

The stream is not very swift.

a swift reply/response

He took very swift action, for which I should like to thank him most sincerely.

The spider responds with a swift attack.

The Internet is bringing a swift death to the Spanish inverted exclamation mark.

Jonathan Swift would defend me.

Shareholders were concerned about the company's swift expansion overseas.

Tatoeba: Where attention to detail is sacred, and punishment is swift.

Watch yourself. She's a pretty swift lady.

Joan is a swift chick.

thank you for your swift reply.

I did not know how swift the end would come

swift acting

The local police took swift action against the squatters. Thank you for your swift reply. The gazelle is one of the swiftest and most graceful of animals.

9. alive

A family should not spend all of its money to keep someone alive on a machine.

I'm alive all right, but don't ask where or how.

He's alive.

I know you're complaining about your car being totaled but it's just a good thing you weren't injured. You should be thankful to be alive.

The church we went past crumbled five minutes afterwards due to a huge earthquake and more than a 100 churchgoers were buried alive.

You were alive when you were born and you are alive at this moment, so you must be alive any point in between. That implies everyone's life is a convex one.

I looked up, and did not recognize the same man: before, I had seen death in his face; but now he was alive, and I recognized in him the presence of God.

If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.

Meet lots of people while your father is still alive, go to many places while your horse is still strong.

'Are all of your grandparents still alive?’ ‘No, my mum’s father died last year.’

Journalism largely consists in saying 'Lord Jones Dead' to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.

As she watched, the birds, especially Chizuko's golden crane, looked alive in a light autumn breeze.

Death is the point at which you can't be alive again. You can't die and then come back to life. If you think that happened, you weren't really dead.

The superior man is affected towards animals: having seen them alive, he cannot bear to see them die; having heard their cries, he cannot bear to eat their flesh.

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