Efficient vs. Quick
Efficientadjective
Making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra. Especially, making good use of time or energy.
Efficientadjective
Expressing the proportion of consumed energy that was successfully used in a process; the ratio of useful output to total input.
Efficientadjective
Causing effects, producing results; bringing into being; initiating change. (Rare except in philosophical and legal expression efficient cause = causative factor or agent.)
Efficientadjective
(proscribed, old use) Effective.
Efficientadjective
Causing effects; producing results; that makes the effect to be what it is; actively operative; not inactive, slack, or incapable; characterized by energetic and useful activity; as, an efficient officer, power.
Efficientnoun
An efficient cause; a prime mover.
Efficientadjective
being effective without wasting time or effort or expense;
Efficientadjective
able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively;
Efficientadjective
(of a system or machine) achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense
Efficientadjective
preventing the wasteful use of a particular resource
Efficientadjective
(of a person) working in a well-organized and competent way
Quickadjective
Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.
Quickadjective
Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.
Quickadjective
Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.
Quickadjective
Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.
Quickadjective
Of temper: easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
Quickadjective
(archaic) Alive, living.
Quickadjective
(archaic) Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.
Quickadjective
Of water: flowing.
Quickadjective
Burning, flammable, fiery.
Quickadjective
Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
Quickadjective
productive; not "dead" or barren
Quickadverb
quickly
Quickadverb
(colloquial) with speed
Quicknoun
raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.
Quicknoun
plants used in making a quickset hedge
Quicknoun
The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.
Quicknoun
quitchgrass
Quicknoun
(cricket) A fast bowler.
Quickverb
(transitive) To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.
Quickverb
To quicken.
Quickadjective
Alive; living; animate; - opposed to dead or inanimate.
Quickadjective
Characterized by life or liveliness; animated; sprightly; agile; brisk; ready.
Quickadjective
Speedy; hasty; swift; not slow; as, be quick.
Quickadjective
Impatient; passionate; hasty; eager; eager; sharp; unceremonious; as, a quick temper.
Quickadjective
Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
Quickadjective
Sensitive; perceptive in a high degree; ready; as, a quick ear.
Quickadjective
Pregnant; with child.
Quickadverb
In a quick manner; quickly; promptly; rapidly; with haste; speedily; without delay; as, run quick; get back quick.
Quicknoun
That which is quick, or alive; a living animal or plant; especially, the hawthorn, or other plants used in making a living hedge.
Quicknoun
The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible of serious injury or keen feeling; the sensitive living flesh; the part of a finger or toe to which the nail is attached; the tender emotions; as, to cut a finger nail to the quick; to thrust a sword to the quick, to taunt one to the quick; - used figuratively.
Quicknoun
Quitch grass.
Quickverb
To revive; to quicken; to be or become alive.
Quicknoun
any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail)
Quickadjective
accomplished rapidly and without delay;
Quickadjective
hurried and brief;
Quickadjective
moving quickly and lightly;
Quickadjective
apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity;
Quickadjective
performed with little or no delay;
Quickadjective
easily aroused or excited;
Quickadverb
with little or no delay;
Quickadjective
moving fast or doing something in a short time
Quickadjective
lasting or taking a short time
Quickadjective
happening with little or no delay; prompt
Quickadjective
prompt to understand, think, or learn; intelligent
Quickadjective
(of a person's eye or ear) keenly perceptive; alert.
Quickadjective
(of a person's temper) easily roused.
Quickadverb
at a fast rate; quickly
Quicknoun
the soft tender flesh below the growing part of a fingernail or toenail.
Quicknoun
the central or most sensitive part of someone or something.
Quicknoun
those who are living
Quicknoun
a fast bowler.
