quickとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• kwik (eye dialect)

語源

From 中期英語 quik, quic, from 古期英語 cwic (“alive”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwiku, from Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós (“alive”), from *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”), *gʷeyh₃w- (“to live”).

Cognate with Dutch kwik, kwiek, German keck, Danish kvik (“quick, quick-witted”) and Danish kæk (“bold; spirited”), Swedish kvick; and (from Indo-European) with Ancient Greek βίος (bíos, “life”), Latin vivus, Lithuanian gývas (“alive”), Latvian dzīvs (“alive”), Russian живо́й (živój), Polish żywy (“alive”), Welsh byw (“alive”), Irish beo (“alive”), biathaigh (“feed”), Northern Kurdish jîn (“to live”), jiyan (“life”), giyan (“soul”), can (“soul”), Sanskrit जीव (jīva, “living”), Albanian nxit (“to urge, stimulate”). Doublet of jiva.

発音

• IPA: /kwɪk/, [kʰw̥ɪk]
• 韻: -ɪk

形容詞

quick (comparative quicker or more quick, superlative quickest or most quick)

1. Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.

   I ran to the station – but I wasn't quick enough.

   He's a quick runner.

   • 2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 87:

     The quickest and nimblest were probably the oxycones, throwing themselves through the water like discuses.

2. Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.

   Synonym: ready

   That was a quick meal.

   • 2023 December 27, Zachary Small, “Video Games Let Them Choose a Role. Their Transgender Identities Flourished.”, in The New York Times‎:

     Veronica Ripley, 32, often speaks to friends about the role that video games played in her trans awakening: “I would try to explain it away, saying that I was playing the girl character because she had a smaller hitbox or quicker kill animations,” she said, referring to in-game advantages.

3. Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.

   You have to be very quick to be able to compete in ad-lib theatrics.

4. Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.

   My father is old but he still has a quick wit.

5. (of people or tempers) Easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.

   She has a very quick temper.

   He is wont to be rather quick of temper when tired.

   • 1549, Hugh Latimer, The Sixth Sermon Preached Before King Edward, April 6 1549:

     The bishop was somewhat quick with them, and signified that he was much offended.

6. (archaic) Alive, living.
   • 1611, 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:

   • 1633, George Herbert, The Temple:

     Man is no star, but a quick coal / Of mortal fire.

   • 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, section X:

     The inmost oratory of my soul,
     Wherein thou ever dwellest quick or dead,
     Is black with grief eternal for thy sake.

7. (archaic, of a foetus) At the stage where it can be felt to move in the uterus.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Section 316, Penal Code (Cap. 224, 2008 Ed.) (Singapore)

     Whoever 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.

8. (now rare, archaic) Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:

     she's quick; the child brags in her belly already: tis yours

   • 1941, Theodore Roethke, “Death Piece”, in Open House, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, London: Faber and Faber […], 1968, →OCLC, page 4:

     Invention sleeps within a skull
     No longer quick with light,
     The hive that hummed in every cell
     Is now sealed honey-tight.

   • 2012, Jerry White, London in the Eighteenth Century, Bodley Head, published 2017, page 385:

     When 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.

9. (archaic, of water) Flowing, not stagnant.
10. (archaic) Burning, flammable, fiery.
    • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 18:

      And it seemed to me that the dream smote the roof above my bed, and the roof opened and disclosed the outer dark, and in the dark travelled a bearded star, and the night was quick with fiery signs.

11. (obsolete) Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
    • c. 1607–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, [George Wilkins?], The Late, and Much Admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: […] [William White and Thomas Creede] for Henry Gosson, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

      […] the ayre is quicke there, / And it perces and ſharpens the ſtomacke,

12. (mining, of a vein of ore) productive; not "dead" or barren
13. (crosswording) Not cryptic.
14. Being a distinctively sensitive kind of glaciomarine clay that may behave like a watery fluid under stress.
    • 2022, Anna Bondo Medhus, ‎Lone Klinkby, Engineering Geophysics (page 227)

      Note that quick clay is a subet of brittle material; all quick clay is brittle, but not all brittle clay is quick.) Glaciomarine clay turns into quick clay after extensive pore water leaching by ground- and rainwater.

同意語

• (moving with speed): fast, speedy, rapid, swift; see also Thesaurus:speedy
• (occurring in a short time): brief, momentary, short-lived; see also Thesaurus:ephemeral
• (fast-thinking): bright, droll, keen; see also Thesaurus:witty or Thesaurus:intelligent
• (easily aroused to anger): hotheaded, rattish, short-tempered, snippish, snippy
• (alive, living): extant, live, vital; see also Thesaurus:alive
• (pregnant): expecting, gravid, with child; see also Thesaurus:pregnant
• (flowing): running, fluent, fluminous; see also Thesaurus:flowing

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “moving with speed”): slow
• (antonym(s) of “alive”): dead

派生語

関連する語

副詞

quick (comparative quicker, superlative quickest)

1. Quickly, in a quick manner.

   Get rich quick.

   Come here, quick!

   • 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC:

     If we consider how very quick the actions of the mind are performed.

2. Answer quickly.
   • 2006, SpongeBob SquarePants, Whale of a Birthday:

     Quick, how do you spell 'Krabs'?

派生語

• right quick

名詞

quick (plural quicks)

1. Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.
2. Plants used in making a quickset hedge
   • 1641, John Evelyn, diary entry September 1641:

     The works […] are curiously hedged with quick.

3. The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.
   • 1550, Hugh Latimer, Sermon Preached at Stamford, 9 October 1550:

     This test nippeth, […] this toucheth the quick.

   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):

     How feebly and unlike themselves they reason when they come to the quick of the difference!

   • 1941, Theodore Roethke, “Prognosis”, in Open House, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, London: Faber and Faber […], 1968, →OCLC, page 5:

     O see the fate of him whose guard was lowered!—
     A single misstep and we leave the quick.

4. (with "the", archaic) Synonym of living (“those who are alive”).

   Antonyms: dead; (polite) deceased, departed

   the quick and the dead

5. Quitchgrass.
   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto LXXXVIII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:

     Wild bird, whose warble, liquid sweet,
     Rings Eden thro' the budded quicks

6. (cricket) A fast bowler.

派生語

動詞

quick (third-person singular simple present quicks, present participle quicking, simple past and past participle quicked)

1. (transitive) To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.
2. (transitive, archaic, poetic) To quicken.
   • 1917, Thomas Hardy, At the Word ‘Farewell’:

     I rose as if quicked by a spur I was bound to obey.

参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “quick”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “quick”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “quick”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.