knowing vs quick

knowing

adj
  • Possessing knowledge or understanding; knowledgeable, intelligent. 

  • The ability to know something without being taught. 

  • Suggestive of private knowledge or understanding. 

  • Deliberate, wilful. 

  • Shrewd or showing clever awareness; discerning. 

  • Demonstrating knowledge of what is in fashion; stylish, chic. 

prep
  • Given my knowledge about someone or something. 

noun
  • The act or condition of having knowledge. 

quick

adj
  • Mentally agile, alert, perceptive. 

  • Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent. 

  • Of temper: easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered. 

  • Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast. 

  • Of water: flowing. 

  • Burning, flammable, fiery. 

  • Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen. 

  • productive; not "dead" or barren 

  • Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly. 

noun
  • A fast bowler. 

  • Plants used in making a quickset hedge 

  • The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling. 

  • Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails. 

  • Quitchgrass. 

adv
  • Quickly, in a quick manner. 

  • Answer quickly. 

verb
  • To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid. 

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