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quick Biology
1. composed of living plants
2. any area of living flesh that is highly sensitive to pain or touch, esp that under a toenail or fingernail or around a healing wound
quick [kwik]
(geology)
Referring to a sediment that, when mixed with or absorbing water, becomes extremely soft, incoherent, or loose, and is capable of flowing easily under load or by force of gravity.
Referring to a soil in which a decrease in effective stress allows water to flow upward with sufficient velocity to reduce significantly the soil's bearing capacity.
Referring to a highly porous soil that readily absorbs heat.
(mining engineering)
Referring to an economically valuable or productive mineral deposit.
(language)QUICK - An early system on the IBM 701.

[Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)].
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Conditions in Joburg were clearly not suited to spin bowlers, but the ball has been sticking in the Centurion pitch, which has dried out and has shown little pace or bounce for quicks so far.
Swann to star for England; CRICKET by The Racing Post (London, England)
Byline: ANI London, Aug 21(ANI): Australian paceman Peter Siddle has backed Australian selectors for their decision to play four quicks and use part-time spinners in the series decider at The Oval.
Siddle says no place for spinners in The Oval Test by Asian News International
The boy fell through the roof of the former Quicks garage off High Street, Saltney, at about 8.
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