Quick vs Acid - 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)
Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.
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(lb) Sour-tempered.
*(Anthony Trollope) (1815-1882)
*:He was stern and his face as acid as ever.
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*:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.
Of or pertaining to an acid; acidic.
(lb) Denoting a musical genre that is a distortion (as if hallucinogenic) of an existing genre, as in acid house, acid jazz, acid rock.
A sour substance.
(chemistry) Any of several classes of compound having the following properties:-
# Any of a class of water-soluble compounds, having sour taste, that turn blue litmus red, and react with some metals to liberate hydrogen, and with bases to form salts.
# Any compound that easily donates protons; a
# Any compound that can accept a pair of electrons to form a covalent bond; a Lewis acid
(slang) lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)
Quick is a related term of acid.
As adjectives the difference between quick and acid
is that quick is moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast while acid is acid; sour; tart (having a sharp taste such as that of vinegar or a lemon).As nouns the difference between quick and acid
is that quick is raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails while acid is acid (a food with a sharp taste).As an adverb quick
is (colloquial) with speed, quickly.As a verb quick
is to amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.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.