Directly vs Quickly - What's the difference?
directly | quickly | Related terms |
In a direct manner; in a straight line or course.
In a straightforward way; without anything intervening; not by secondary, but by direct means.
Plainly, without circumlocution or ambiguity; absolutely; in express terms.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 19, author=Josh Halliday, work=the Guardian
, title= Exactly; just.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=(Henry Petroski)
, magazine=(American Scientist), title= Straightforwardly; honestly.
(label) Immediately.
(label) Soon; next; when it becomes convenient.
As soon as.
* 1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 725:
* 2009 , Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 463:
rapidly; with speed; fast
Very soon
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=November 3
, author=Chris Bevan
, title=Rubin Kazan 1 - 0 Tottenham
, work=BBC Sport
Two more top-class stops followed quickly afterwards, first from Natcho's rasping shot which was heading into the top corner, and then to deny Ryazantsev at his near post.}}
As adverbs the difference between directly and quickly
is that directly is in a direct manner; in a straight line or course while quickly is rapidly; with speed; fast.As a conjunction directly
is as soon as.directly
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(en adverb)Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?, passage="Mujtahidd" has attracted almost 300,000 followers since the end of last year, when he began posting scandalous claims about the Saudi elite. In one tweet, Mujtahidd directly challenged Prince Abdul Aziz Bin Fahd about his political history: "Did you resign or were you forced to resign from your post as head of the diwan [office] of the council of ministers?"}}
The Evolution of Eyeglasses, passage=The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,
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* indirectlyConjunction
(English Conjunctions)- Tenderly, reluctantly, he took his leave of her, promising that he would contact her directly he got back, perhaps in ten days or so.
- He is to go to Calais, directly this is over, to replace Lord Berners as governor [...].
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(quicker)citation, page= , passage=Another Karadeniz cross led to Cudicini's first save of the night, with the Spurs keeper making up for a weak punch by brilliantly pushing away Christian Noboa's snap-shot.
Two more top-class stops followed quickly afterwards, first from Natcho's rasping shot which was heading into the top corner, and then to deny Ryazantsev at his near post.}}
- If we go this way, we'll get there quickly .
