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 →

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 →
• Quick, Chuchundra, or I’ll bite you!” (The Jungle Book) tree →
• 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 →

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.
• How are you feeling?" Freya bursts into tears, and then it's over much quicker than she feared.
• Surprising facts deserve a quick check, whether they turn out true or false.
• Many cartoon characters, like Mickey Mouse and the Simpsons, have four fingers because it is quicker to draw and looks clearer.
• From the farm the milk travels cold in a tanker to the dairy, where a quick heating called pasteurisation kills the germs.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «quick» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.