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Efficient (adjective)
Making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra. Especially, making good use of time or energy.
“An efficient process would automate all the routine work.”
“Our cleaners are almost too efficient: they throw away anything left out on a desk.”
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Efficient (adjective)
Expressing the proportion of consumed energy that was successfully used in a process; the ratio of useful output to total input.
“The motor is only 20% efficient at that temperature.”
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Efficient (adjective)
Causing effects, producing results; bringing into being; initiating change. (Rare except in philosophical and legal expression efficient cause = causative factor or agent.)
“Ownership, maintenance, or use of the automobile need not be the direct and efficient cause of the injury sustained”
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Efficient (adjective)
(proscribed, old use) Effective.
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Quick (adjective)
Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.
“I ran to the station – but I wasn’t quick enough.”
“He’s a quick runner.”
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Quick (adjective)
Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.
“That was a quick meal.”
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Quick (adjective)
Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.
“You have to be very quick to be able to compete in ad-lib theatrics.”
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Quick (adjective)
Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.
“My father is old but he still has a quick wit.”
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Quick (adjective)
Of temper: easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
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Quick (adjective)
Alive, living.
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Quick (adjective)
Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus’s movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.
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Quick (adjective)
Of water: flowing.
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Quick (adjective)
Burning, flammable, fiery.
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Quick (adjective)
Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
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Quick (adjective)
productive; not “dead” or barren
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Quick (adverb)
quickly
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Quick (adverb)
with speed
“Get rich quick.”
“Come here, quick!”
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Quick (noun)
raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.
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Quick (noun)
plants used in making a quickset hedge
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Quick (noun)
The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.
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Quick (noun)
quitchgrass
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Quick (noun)
A fast bowler.
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Quick (verb)
To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.
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Quick (verb)
To quicken.
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Efficient (adjective)
(of a system or machine) achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense
“more efficient processing of information”
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Efficient (adjective)
preventing the wasteful use of a particular resource
“an energy-efficient heating system”
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Efficient (adjective)
(of a person) working in a well-organized and competent way
“an efficient administrator”
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Quick (adjective)
moving fast or doing something in a short time
“he was always quick to point out her faults”
“in the qualifying session he was two seconds quicker than his teammate”
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Quick (adjective)
lasting or taking a short time
“Brian gave her a quick look”
“we went to the pub for a quick drink”
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Quick (adjective)
happening with little or no delay; prompt
“children like to see quick results from their efforts”
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Quick (adjective)
prompt to understand, think, or learn; intelligent
“it was quick of him to spot the mistake”
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Quick (adjective)
(of a person’s eye or ear) keenly perceptive; alert.
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Quick (adjective)
(of a person’s temper) easily roused.
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Quick (adverb)
at a fast rate; quickly
“he’ll find some place where he can make money quicker”
“Get out, quick!”
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Quick (noun)
the soft tender flesh below the growing part of a fingernail or toenail.
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Quick (noun)
the central or most sensitive part of someone or something.
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Quick (noun)
those who are living
“the quick and the dead”
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Quick (noun)
a fast bowler.