Allow vs Quick - What's the difference?
allow | quick |
To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.
* 2004 , Constance Garnett (translator), Anton Chekhov (Russian author), “Ariadne”, in The Darling: and Other Stories :
To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion.
* 1855 , (William Makepeace Thackeray), (The Newcomes)
To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.
To grant license to; to permit; to consent to.
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To not bar or obstruct.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-26, author=(Leo Hickman)
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, title= To acknowledge or concede.
* 2000 , (George RR Martin), A Storm of Swords , Bantam (2011), page 154:
To take into account by making an allowance.
To render physically possible.
* 1824 , (Washington Irving), :
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
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, title= (obsolete) To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
* Bible, Luke xi. 48
* Fuller
(obsolete) To sanction; to invest; to entrust.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To like; to be suited or pleased with.
* Massinger
Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.
Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.
Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.
Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.
Of temper: easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
* Latimer
(archaic) Alive, living.
* Bible, 2 Timothy iv. 1
* Herbert
* 1874 , , X
(archaic) Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.
* Shakespeare
Of water: flowing.
Burning, flammable, fiery.
Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
* Shakespeare
(mining, of a vein of ore) productive; not "dead" or barren
(colloquial) with speed, quickly
* John Locke
raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.
plants used in making a quickset hedge
* Evelyn
The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.
* Latimer
* Fuller
quitchgrass
To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.
To quicken.
* (Thomas Hardy)
As verbs the difference between allow and quick
is that allow is to grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have while quick is to amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.As an adjective quick is
moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.As an adverb quick is
(colloquial) with speed, quickly.As a noun quick is
raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.allow
English
Verb
(en verb)- he needed a great deal of money, but his uncle only allowed him two thousand roubles a year, which was not enough, and for days together he would run about Moscow with his tongue out, as the saying is.
- I allow , with Mrs. Grundy and most moralists, that Miss Newcome's conductwas highly reprehensible.
- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
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- Half the night passed before the wench allowed that it might be safe to stop.
- When calculating a budget for a construction project, always allow for contingencies.
- The inlet allowed a facility to bring the money in a boat secretly and at night to the very foot of the hill.
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- Ye allow the deeds of your fathers.
- We commend his pains, condemn his pride, allow his life, approve his learning.
- Thou shalt be allowed with absolute power.
- How allow you the model of these clothes?
Synonyms
* allot, assign, bestow, concede, admit, let, permit, suffer, tolerateDerived terms
* allowance * allowableReferences
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* English control verbsquick
English
(wikipedia quick)Adjective
(er)- I ran to the station – but I wasn't quick enough.
- He's a quick runner.
- That was a quick meal.
- You have to be very quick to be able to compete in ad-lib theatrics.
- My father is old but he still has a quick wit.
- The bishop was somewhat quick with them, and signified that he was much offended.
- the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead
- Man is no star, but a quick coal / Of mortal fire.
- The inmost oratory of my soul,
- Wherein thou ever dwellest quick or dead,
- Is black with grief eternal for thy sake.
- she's quick ; the child brags in her belly already: tis yours
- The air is quick there, / And it pierces and sharpens the stomach.
Synonyms
* (moving with speed) fast, speedy, rapid, swift * See alsoAntonyms
* (moving with speed) slowDerived terms
* kwik * quick-change artist * quick-drying * quicken * quick fix * quickie * quicklime * quickly * quick on his feet * quick on the draw * quicksand * quicksilver * quick smart * quickstep * quick-wittedAdverb
(er)- Get rich quick.
- Come here, quick !
- If we consider how very quick the actions of the mind are performed.
Noun
(en noun)- The works are curiously hedged with quick .
- This test nippeth, this toucheth the quick .
- How feebly and unlike themselves they reason when they come to the quick of the difference!
- (Tennyson)
Derived terms
* cut to the quick * to the quickVerb
(en verb)- I rose as if quicked by a spur I was bound to obey.
