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Definition of quick adverb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

quick

adverb
 
/kwɪk/
 
/kwɪk/
(quicker, quickest)
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  1. quickly; fast
    • Come as quick as you can!
    • Let's see who can get there quickest.
    • It's another of his schemes to get rich quick.
    • (North American English, informal) You had to learn real quick to get along.
    Which Word? quick / quickly / fastquick / quickly / fast
    • Quickly is the usual adverb from quick:
      • I quickly realized that I was on the wrong train.
      • My heart started to beat more quickly.
    • Quick is sometimes used as an adverb in very informal language, especially as an exclamation:
      • Come on! Quick! They’ll see us!
      Quicker is used more often:
      • My heart started to beat much quicker.
      • The quicker I get you away from here, the better.
    • Fast is more often used when you are talking about the speed that somebody or something moves at:
      • How fast can a cheetah run?
      • Can’t you drive any faster?
      • You’re driving too quickly.
      There is no word fastly.
  2. quick-
     (in adjectives) doing the thing mentioned quickly
    • quick-thinking
    • quick-growing
    3. Word OriginOld English cwic, cwicu ‘alive, animated, alert’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kwiek ‘sprightly’ and German keck ‘saucy’, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin vivus ‘alive’ and Greek bios, zōē ‘life’.
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