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.”
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.”
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”
Efficient (adjective)
(proscribed, old use) Effective.
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.”
Quick (adjective)
Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.
“That was a quick meal.”
Quick (adjective)
Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.
“You have to be very quick to be able to compete in ad-lib theatrics.”
Quick (adjective)
Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.
“My father is old but he still has a quick wit.”
Quick (adjective)
Of temper: easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
Quick (adjective)
Alive, living.
Quick (adjective)
Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus’s movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.
Quick (adjective)
Of water: flowing.
Quick (adjective)
Burning, flammable, fiery.
Quick (adjective)
Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
Quick (adjective)
productive; not “dead” or barren
Quick (adverb)
quickly
Quick (adverb)
with speed
“Get rich quick.”
“Come here, quick!”
Quick (noun)
raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.
Quick (noun)
plants used in making a quickset hedge
Quick (noun)
The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.
Quick (noun)
quitchgrass
Quick (noun)
A fast bowler.
Quick (verb)
To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.
Quick (verb)
To quicken.
Efficient (adjective)
(of a system or machine) achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense
“more efficient processing of information”
Efficient (adjective)
preventing the wasteful use of a particular resource
“an energy-efficient heating system”
Efficient (adjective)
(of a person) working in a well-organized and competent way
“an efficient administrator”
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”
Quick (adjective)
lasting or taking a short time
“Brian gave her a quick look”
“we went to the pub for a quick drink”
Quick (adjective)
happening with little or no delay; prompt
“children like to see quick results from their efforts”
Quick (adjective)
prompt to understand, think, or learn; intelligent
“it was quick of him to spot the mistake”
Quick (adjective)
(of a person’s eye or ear) keenly perceptive; alert.
Quick (adjective)
(of a person’s temper) easily roused.
Quick (adverb)
at a fast rate; quickly
“he’ll find some place where he can make money quicker”
“Get out, quick!”
Quick (noun)
the soft tender flesh below the growing part of a fingernail or toenail.
Quick (noun)
the central or most sensitive part of someone or something.
Quick (noun)
those who are living
“the quick and the dead”
Quick (noun)
a fast bowler.