Quick vs Quit - What's the difference?
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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)
To pay (a debt, fine etc.).
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Enkindle all the sparks of nature / To quit this horrid act.
*(Edward Fairfax) (c.1580-1635)
*:that judge that quits each soul his hire
To repay (someone) for (something).
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*:I was but late att a Iustynge / and there I Iusted with a knyghte that is broder vnto kynge Pellam / and twyes smote I hym doune / & thenne he promysed to quyte me on my best frynde / and so he wounded my sone that can not be hole tyll I haue of that knyghtes blood
(obsolete) To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.).
*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.v:
*:Vnthankfull wretch (said he) is this the meed, / With which her soueraigne mercy thou doest quight ?
To conduct or acquit (oneself); to behave (in a specified way).
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*:Be strong and quit' yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: ' quit yourselves like men, and fight.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Samson hath quit himself like Samson.
To carry through; to go through to the end.
*(Samuel Daniel) (1562-1619)
*:Never worthy prince a day did quit / With greater hazard and with more renown.
(label) To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
*(William Wake) (1657-1737)
*:To quit you of this fear, you have already looked Death in the face; what have you found so terrible in it?
(label) To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:God will relent, and quit thee all his debt.
(label) To abandon, renounce (a thing).
(label) To leave (a place).
To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).
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To stop, give up (an activity) (usually + gerund or verbal noun).
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To close (an application).
(quit)
As verbs the difference between quick and quit
is that quick is to amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid while quit is .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.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.
References
* * 1000 English basic words ----quit
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) quiter, (etyl) quiter, from , ultimately from (etyl) quietus .Verb
Derived terms
* quitterQuotations
* (English Citations of "quit")Usage notes
* The past tense of quit'' is now ''quit'' for most speakers and writers; dictionaries usually allow ''quitted'' as an alternative, but it is rare or nonexistent in North America and Australia, and outnumbered by ''quit'' by about 16 to 1 in theBritish National Corpus. Quitted is more commonly used to mean "left". ''ie. She quitted her job.
