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# quicksilver

«quicksilver» in Mova's school dictionary: **the old name for mercury, a heavy silver liquid metal…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (no plural in use)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Quicksilver is the old name for mercury, a heavy silver liquid metal that runs and rolls into little balls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quicksilver/#m1)

2) In some tales «Quicksilver» is the name of a quick, clever character. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quicksilver/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in science, a silver liquid metal found in old thermometers; in fairy tales, a name for a swift character

### examples

- The thermometer held a thin line of quicksilver. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quicksilver/#x1)
- Drops of quicksilver ran across the table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quicksilver/#x2)
- In the old tale, Quicksilver was a swift and clever messenger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quicksilver/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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