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# quick

«quick» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **alive; fast** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic sense

### modern equivalent

alive; fast

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Alive, living; in the texts it means living flesh, not dead; today it means fast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/Q/quick/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today it means fast or speedy; the old sense "alive" is used in the Torah, while the fairy tale sentence uses the modern sense of fast.

### examples

- Or when the flesh hath in the skin thereof a burning by fire, and the quick flesh of the burning become a bright spot, reddish-white, or white; (Torah LEV.13.24, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/Q/quick/#x1)
- Quick, Chuchundra, or I’ll bite you!” (The Jungle Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/Q/quick/#x2)
- And the priest shall look, and, behold, if there be a white rising in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising, (Torah LEV.13.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/Q/quick/#x3)

### primary record

quick

### tests

manual 10.3; corpora 286 (Torah 2, tales 284, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 23; ratio 0.7 (Torah alone 0.1); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [A scratch card is a quick lottery ticket; the "almost won" feeling is designed to make people buy another.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/28-smoking-vaping-and-betting/14/)
- [How are you feeling?" Freya bursts into tears, and then it's over much quicker than she feared.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/59-the-parents-walk-in-how-good-parents-react/9/)
- [Surprising facts deserve a quick check, whether they turn out true or false.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/9/)
- [Many cartoon characters, like Mickey Mouse and the Simpsons, have four fingers because it is quicker to draw and looks clearer.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/23-animation-flipbooks-stop-motion-computer-cartoons/15/)
- [From the farm the milk travels cold in a tanker to the dairy, where a quick heating called pasteurisation kills the germs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/341-where-milk-comes-from-cow-to-carton-cheese-butter-and-yoghurt/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «quick» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/Q/quick/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.