Hot vs Quick - What's the difference?

Hot is a related term of quick.

As nouns the difference between hot and quick

is that hot is a whit, a bit while quick is raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.

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 verb quick is

to amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.

hot

English

Alternative forms

* (physically attractive) hawt (slang, especially Internet''), hott (''slang, especially Internet )

Adjective

(hotter)

Of an object, having a high temperature.

*:There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;.

Of the weather, causing the air to be hot.

Of a person or animal, feeling the sensation of heat, especially to the point of discomfort.

Feverish.

Of food, spicy.

(lb) Very good, remarkable, exciting.

Stolen.

(lb) Electrically charged

(lb) Radioactive.

(lb) Of a person, very physically or sexually attractive.

Sexual; involving sexual intercourse or sexual excitement.

Popular; in demand.

Very close to finding or guessing something to be found or guessed.

Performing strongly; having repeated successes.

*1938 , Harold M. Sherman, "Shooting Stars," Boys' Life (March 1938), Published by Boy Scouts of America, p.5:

*:"Keep going! You're hot tonight!" urged Wally.

*2002 , Peter Krause & Andy King, Play-By-Play Golf, First Avenue Editions, p.55:

*:The ball lands on the fairway, just a couple of yards in front of the green. "Nice shot Sarah! You're hot today!" Jenny says.

Fresh; just released.

*1960 , Super Markets of the Sixties: Findings, recommendations.- v.2. The plans and sketches, Super Market Institute, p.30:

*:A kid can stand in the street and sell newspapers, if the headlines are hot .

*2000 , David Cressy, Travesties and transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England: tales of discord and dissension, Oxford University Press, p.34:

*:Some of these publications show signs of hasty production, indicating that they were written while the news was hot .

Uncomfortable, difficult to deal with; awkward, dangerous, unpleasant.

Quotations

* (English Citations of "hot")

Synonyms

* (having a high temperature) heated; see also * (of the weather) baking, boiling, boiling hot, sultry, sweltering * (feeling the sensation of heat) baking, boiling, boiling hot * (feverish) feverish, having a temperature * (spicy) piquant, spicy, tangy * stolen * (electrically charged) live * (radioactive) radioactive * attractive, beautiful, cute, fit, foxy, gorgeous, handsome, hunky, lush, pretty, sexy, studly, tasty, yummy

Antonyms

* (having a high temperature) chilled, chilly, cold, cold as ice, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, glacial, ice-cold, icy * (of the weather) cold, freezing, freezing cold, icy * (feeling the sensation of heat) freezing, freezing cold * (spicy) bland, mild * (electrically charged) neutral, dead * (slang) lifeless

Derived terms

* a bit hot * as hot as hell, hot as hell * boiling hot * blow hot and cold * catch it hot, get it hot * give it to someone hot * give it to someone hot and strong * go hot and cold * go like hot cakes, sell like hot cakes * have the hots for * hot air * hot and bothered * hot-and-hot * hot bed * hot beef * hot blast * hot-blooded * hot bottle * hot box * hot-brain * hot-brained * hot bulb * hot button * hot cathode * hot chair * hot check * hot chisel * hot-closet * hot cockles * hot coppers * hot cross bun * hot cupboard * hot damn * hot date * hot diggety, hot diggety dog * hot-dip * hot-dipped * hot dipping * hot dog * hot favorite, hot favourite * hot flash, hot flush * hot-flue * hotfoot * hot from the press, hot off the press * hot gospeler, hot gospeller * hot gospeling, hot gospelling * hot hatch * hot-hatch * hothead * hotheaded * hot-hoof * hot-house, hothouse * hot-iron test * hot-key * hot laboratory * hot line, hotline * hotly * hot-making * hot melt, hot-melt adhesive, hot-melt glue * hot metal * hot money * hotness * hot on * hot on someone's heels * hot-panted, hot-pantsed * hot pants * hot pint * hotplate * hotpot * hot potato * hot-press * hot-presser * hot property * hot rod, hotrod * hot-rodder, hotrodder * hot-saw * hot seat * hot set * hot shift * hot shoe * hot-short * hotshot * hot-skull * hot-spirited * hot spot * hot spring * hotspur * hot squat * hot-stopping * hot-stove * hot stuff * hot-swap * hot tap * hot tear * hot tearing * hot-tempered * hotter * hottie * hotting * hottish * hot to trot * hot-trod * hot tub * hot tube * hot under the collar * hot up * hot wall * hot war * hot water * hot wave * hot well * hot wind * hot-wire * hot-wired * hot with * hot-work * hot-working * in hot pursuit * like a cat on hot bricks * make it hot for, make things hot for * run hot * smoking hot * too hot for * too hot to hold

Verb

To heat; to make or become hot.

To become lively or exciting.

Synonyms

* hot up; heat, heat up

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quick

English

(wikipedia quick)

Adjective

(er)

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.

Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.

That was a quick meal.

Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.

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

Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.

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

Of temper: easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.

* Latimer

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

(archaic) Alive, living.

* Bible, 2 Timothy iv. 1

the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead

* Herbert

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

* 1874 , , X

The inmost oratory of my soul,

Wherein thou ever dwellest quick or dead,

Is black with grief eternal for thy sake.

(archaic) Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.

* Shakespeare

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

Of water: flowing.

Burning, flammable, fiery.

Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.

* Shakespeare

The air is quick there, / And it pierces and sharpens the stomach.

(mining, of a vein of ore) productive; not "dead" or barren

Synonyms

* (moving with speed) fast, speedy, rapid, swift * See also

Antonyms

* (moving with speed) slow

Derived 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-witted

Adverb

(er)

(colloquial) with speed, quickly

Get rich quick.

Come here, quick !

* John Locke

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

Noun

(en noun)

raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.

plants used in making a quickset hedge

* Evelyn

The works are curiously hedged with quick .

The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.

* Latimer

This test nippeth, this toucheth the quick .

* Fuller

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

quitchgrass

(Tennyson)

Derived terms

* cut to the quick * to the quick

Verb

(en verb)

To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.

To quicken.

* (Thomas Hardy)

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

References

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