Kind vs Quick - What's the difference?
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A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:How diversely Love doth his pageants play, / And shows his power in variable kinds !
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
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Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen.
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*1884 , (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VIII
*:I got my traps out of the canoe and made me a nice camp in the thick woods. I made a kind of a tent out of my blankets to put my things under so the rain couldn't get at them.
(label) One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition.
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*:And whan he cam ageyne he sayd / O my whyte herte / me repenteth that thow art dede // and thy deth shalle be dere bought and I lyue / and anone he wente in to his chamber and armed hym / and came oute fyersly / & there mette he with syr gauayne / why haue ye slayne my houndes said syr gauayn / for they dyd but their kynde
(senseid)Goods or services used as payment, as e.g. in barter.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:Some of you, on pure instinct of nature, / Are led by kind t'admire your fellow-creature.
Equivalent means used as response to an action.
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Each of the two elements of the communion service, bread and wine.
having a benevolent, courteous, friendly, generous, gentle, or disposition, marked by consideration for - and service to - others.
Affectionate.
* Goldsmith
* Waller
Favorable.
mild, gentle, forgiving
Gentle; tractable; easily governed.
(obsolete) Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.
* Holland
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 nouns the difference between kind and quick
is that kind is child (young person) 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.kind
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) . See also kin.Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}
Usage notes
In sense “goods or services” or “equivalent means”, used almost exclusively with “in” in expression in kind.Synonyms
* genre * sort * type * derivative (1) and/or (2) * generation * offspring * child * See alsoDerived terms
* in kind * kind of * kindaEtymology 2
From (etyl) , from cynd.Adjective
(er)- a kind''' man; a '''kind heart
- Yet was he kind , or if severe in aught, / The love he bore to learning was his fault.
- O cruel Death, to those you take more kind / Than to the wretched mortals left behind.
- The years have been kind to Richard Gere; he ages well.
- a horse kind in harness
- It becometh sweeter than it should be, and loseth the kind taste.
- (Chaucer)
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* kindhearted * kindliness * kindly * kindnessExternal links
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* 1000 English basic words ----quick
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.