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Quickly vs Efficiently - What's the difference?

quickly | efficiently |

As adverbs the difference between quickly and efficiently

is that quickly is rapidly; with speed; fast while efficiently is in an efficient manner.

quickly

English

Adverb

(quicker)
  • 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 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 .

    Usage notes

    * Although the comparative and superlative one-word forms exist and are in use, the two-word forms are more common.

    Related terms

    * quick (adjective)

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    efficiently

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In an efficient manner.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Phil Dawkes , title=Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The second half was a less open affair, in which West Brom grew increasingly and efficiently conservative.}}