Quick vs Passing - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between quick and passing

is that quick is moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast while passing is that passes away; ephemeral.

As adverbs the difference between quick and passing

is that quick is with speed, quickly while passing is surpassingly, greatly.

As nouns the difference between quick and passing

is that quick is raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails while passing is death, dying; the end of something.

As verbs the difference between quick and passing

is that quick is {{cx|transitive|lang=en}} To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid while passing is present participle of lang=en.

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

* * 1000 English basic words ----

passing

English

Verb

(head)

Adjective

(en adjective)

That passes away; ephemeral.

* 1814 , (Lord Byron), Lara , I.15:

And solace sought he none from priest nor leech, / And soon the same in movement and in speech / As heretofore he fill'd the passing hours

* 2010 , Marianne Kirby, The Guardian , 21 Sep 2010:

It might be possible to dismiss

dittowatch as just another passing internet fancy. After all, hashtags are ephemeral.

* Shakespeare

her passing deformity

* 1835 , (Washington Irving), The Crayon Miscellany :

It was by dint of passing strength, / That he moved the massy stone at length.

* 1847 , Robert Holmes, The Case of Ireland Stated :

That parliament was destined, in one short hour of convulsive strength, in one short hour of passing glory, to humble the pride and alarm the fears of England.

vague, cursory.

* 2011 , Stewart J Lawrence, The Guardian , 14 Jun 2011:

Ardent pro-lifer Rick Santorum made one passing reference to "authenticity" as a litmus test for a conservative candidate, but if he was obliquely referring to Romney (and he was), you could be excused for missing the dig.

going past - passing cars.

Adverb

(-)

* 1813 , (Percy Bysshe Shelley), Queen Mab , I:

One, pale as yonder waning moon, / With lips of lurid blue; / The other, rosy as the morn / When throned on ocean's wave, / It blushes o'er the world: / Yet both so passing wonderful!

* 2010 , Simon Hattenstone, The Guardian , 30 Oct 2010:

‘I find it passing strange that convicts understand honest folk, but honest folk don't understand convicts.’

Usage notes

* This use is sometimes misconstrued as meaning "vaguely" or "slightly" (perhaps by confusion with such phrases as "passing fancy", under Adjective, above), leading to formations such as "more than passing clever" etc.

Noun

Death, dying; the end of something.

The fact of going past; a movement from one place to another or a change from one state to another.

* (Oliver Onions), The Story of Louie

And since he did not see Louie by the folding door, Louie knew that in his former passings and repassings he could not have seen her either.

(legal) The act of approving a bill etc.

(sports) The act of passing a ball etc. to another player.

A form of juggling where several people pass props between each other, usually clubs or rings.