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• quick — ► ADJECTIVE 1) moving fast. 2) lasting or taking a short time: a quick worker. 3) with little or no delay; prompt. 4) intelligent. 5) (of a person s eye or ear) keenly perceptive. 6) (of temper) easily roused. ► NOUN …   English terms dictionary

• quick|step — «KWIHK STEHP», noun, verb, stepped, step|ping. –n. 1. a step used in marching in quick time: »The Grand Army starts off to war with a rousing quickstep, soon changes its tune to fit a war for which…hardly any of the sodiers were prepared (Time).… …   Useful english dictionary

• Quick Draw McGraw — Infobox Television show name = The Quick Draw McGraw Show caption = Quick Draw McGraw title card. show name 2 = Quick Draw McGraw genre = Cartoon series director = William Hanna Joseph Barbera voices = Julie Bennett Daws Butler Don Messick Doug… …   Wikipedia

• Quick grass — Grass Grass, n. [OE. gras, gres, gers, AS, gr[ae]s, g[ae]rs; akin to OFries. gres, gers, OS., D., G., Icel., & Goth. gras, Dan. gr[ae]s, Sw. gr[aum]s, and prob. to E. green, grow. Cf. {Graze}.] 1. Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• quick — adjective 1》 moving fast or doing something in a short time.     ↘lasting a short time.     ↘prompt. 2》 intelligent.     ↘(of one s eye or ear) alert. 3》 (of a person s temper) easily roused. noun 1》 (the quick) the tender flesh below the growing …   English new terms dictionary

• the quick — pluralnoun archaic those who are living. → quick the quick the tender flesh below the growing part of a fingernail or toenail. → quick …   English new terms dictionary

• hop — hop1 hoppingly, adv. /hop/, v., hopped, hopping, n. v.i. 1. to make a short, bouncing leap; move by leaping with all feet off the ground. 2. to spring or leap on one foot. 3. Informal. to make a short, quick trip, esp. in an airplane: He hopped… …   Universalium

• temperate forest — ▪ ecology Introduction  vegetation type with a more or less continuous canopy of broad leaved trees. Such forests occur between approximately 25° and 50° latitude in both hemispheres (seeFigure 1 >). Toward the polar regions they grade into… …   Universalium

• Weed control — is the botanical component of pest control, stopping weeds from reaching a mature stage of growth when they could be harmful to domesticated plants and livestock by physical and chemical methods. In order to reduce weed growth, many weed control… …   Wikipedia

• four-o'clock — /fawr euh klok , fohr /, n. 1. a common garden plant, Mirabilis jalapa, of the four o clock family, having tubular red, white, yellow, or variegated flowers that open late in the afternoon. 2. any plant of the same genus. [1750 60] * * *… …   Universalium

• squash — squash1 squasher, n. /skwosh, skwawsh/, v.t. 1. to press into a flat mass or pulp; crush: She squashed the flower under her heel. 2. to suppress or put down; quash. 3. to silence or disconcert (someone), as with a crushing retort or emotional or… …   Universalium