buzz vs quicken

buzz

verb
  • To show a high level of activity and haste, energization or excitement, to be busy as a bee in one’s actions but perhaps mentally charged. 

  • To fly while making such a sound. 

  • Of a group of people, to talk about some interesting topic excitedly. 

  • To whisper; to communicate, as tales, in an undertone; to spread, as a report, by whispers or secretly. 

  • To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings. 

  • To fly at high speed and at a very low altitude over a specified area, as to make a surprise pass. 

  • To talk to incessantly or confidentially in a low humming voice. 

  • To utter a murmuring sound; to speak with a low, humming voice. 

  • To cut the hair in a close-cropped military style, or buzzcut. 

  • To communicate with (a person) by means of a buzzer. 

noun
  • Major topic of conversation; widespread rumor; information spread behind the scenes. 

  • Synonym of fizz-buzz (“counting game”) 

  • The audible friction of voiced consonants. 

  • A whisper. 

  • A rush or feeling of energy or excitement; a feeling of slight intoxication. 

  • A continuous humming noise, as of bees; a confused murmur, as of general conversation in low tones. 

  • A telephone call or e-mail. 

quicken

verb
  • To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be excited or roused. 

  • To stimulate or assist the fermentation of (an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.). 

  • To inspire or stimulate (an action, a feeling, etc.). 

  • To grow bright; to brighten. 

  • To put (someone or something) in a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to excite, to rouse. 

  • Of a pregnant woman: to first feel the movements of the foetus, or reach the stage of pregnancy at which this takes place; of a foetus: to begin to move. 

  • To give life; to make alive. 

  • To inspire or stimulate. 

  • To apply quicksilver (mercury) to (something); to combine (something) with quicksilver; to quicksilver. 

  • To make (something) quicker or faster; to hasten, speed up. 

  • To come back to life, to receive life. 

  • To become quicker or faster. 

  • Of an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.: to ferment. 

  • To give life to (someone or something never alive or once dead); to animate, to resurrect, to revive. 

noun
  • In full quicken tree: the European rowan, rowan, or mountain ash (Sorbus aucuparia). 

  • Synonym of couch grass (“a species of grass, Elymus repens”); also (chiefly in the plural), the underground rhizomes of this, and sometimes other grasses. 

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