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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
More quickly
Synonyms:
faster; quicker
Classified under:
Pertainym:
quick (accomplished rapidly and without delay)
Context examples:
This is because their short lifespans allow for scientists to observe several generations of worms within a short period of time, yielding quicker results for studies.
(Roundworms have the Right Stuff, NASA)
A type of striated skeletal muscle fiber that contracts quicker than a red fiber but slower than a white fiber and contains only a moderate amount of mitochondria, myoglobin and sarcoplasm.
(Intermediate Fiber, NCI Thesaurus)
The goal of the project is to offer quicker access to low Earth orbit, decreasing the preparation time to launch from months to days.
(Hypersonic Space Plane May Soon Be a Reality, VOA)
Who more gladly than we throughout the Four Nations received the 'bloody sword,' or at its warlike call flocked quicker to the standard of the King?
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Afraid of offending him by pursuing the subject when he made so light of it, I only pursued it in my thoughts as we went on at even a quicker pace than before.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“He’s quicker at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the derbies.”
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Your dog is quicker to recognise his friends than you are, sir; he pricked his ears and wagged his tail when I was at the bottom of the field, and you have your back towards me now.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
It was lower and quicker than ever! and Marianne, still talking wildly of mama, her alarm increased so rapidly, as to determine her on sending instantly for Mr. Harris, and despatching a messenger to Barton for her mother.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Fanny's last feeling in the visit was disappointment: for the shawl which Edmund was quietly taking from the servant to bring and put round her shoulders was seized by Mr. Crawford's quicker hand, and she was obliged to be indebted to his more prominent attention.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
For a minute he was ruffled again at the mere thought of it, and then the fear that Meg would cry herself sick softened his heart, and sent him on at a quicker pace, resolving to be calm and kind, but firm, quite firm, and show her where she had failed in her duty to her spouse.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
