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Quick can be an adverb, a noun or an adjective.

quick used as an adverb:

  1. quickly
    "get rich quick"

An adverb is a word that modifies an adjective (very red), verb (quietly running), or another adverb (very carefully). Learn more →

quick used as a noun:

  1. raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

quick used as an adjective:

  1. Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.
    "I ran to the station – but I wasn't quick enough."
  2. Occuring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.
    "That was a quick meal."
  3. Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.
    "You have to be very quick to be able to compete in ad-lib theatrics."
  4. Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.
    "My father is old but he still has a quick wit."
  5. Of temper: easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
  6. Alive, living.
  7. Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.
    "She was quick with child."
  8. Of water: flowing.
  9. Burning, flammable, fiery.

Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →

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What type of word is quick?

As detailed above, 'quick' can be an adverb, a noun or an adjective. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Adverb usage: get rich quick
  2. Adverb usage: come here, quick!
  3. Adjective usage: I ran to the station – but I wasn't quick enough.
  4. Adjective usage: He's a quick runner.
  5. Adjective usage: That was a quick meal.
  6. Adjective usage: You have to be very quick to be able to compete in ad-lib theatrics.
  7. Adjective usage: My father is old but he still has a quick wit.
  8. Adjective usage: She was quick with child.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of quick are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of quick, and guess at its most common usage.

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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.

The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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