band aid quick fix quickie quicky | hurried repair |
quick march | marching at quick time |
somatotropin somatotrophin somatotropic hormone somatotrophic hormone STH human growth hormone growth hormone | a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland, promotes growth in humans |
quick | any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail) |
mental quickness quickness quick-wittedness | intelligence as revealed by an ability to give correct responses without delay |
emergence outgrowth growth | the gradual beginning or coming forth, figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece |
rapid climb rapid growth zoom | a rapid rise |
irascibility short temper spleen quick temper | a feeling of resentful anger |
quick bread | breads made with a leavening agent that permits immediate baking |
growth industry | an industry that is growing rapidly |
growth | vegetation that has grown, a growth of trees, the only growth was some salt grass |
growth | something grown or growing, a growth of hair |
quick study sponge | someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily, she soaks up foreign languages like a sponge |
annual ring growth ring | an annual formation of wood in plants as they grow |
dog grass couch grass quackgrass quack grass quick grass witch grass witchgrass Agropyron repens | European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes, naturalized in North America as a weed |
old growth virgin forest | forest or woodland having a mature or overly mature ecosystem more or less uninfluenced by human activity |
second growth | a second growth of trees covering an area where the original stand was destroyed by fire or cutting |
fast buck quick buck | quick or easy earnings, they are traders out to make a fast buck |
liquid assets current assets quick assets | assets in the form of cash (or easily convertible into cash) |
growth stock | stock of a corporation that has had faster than average gains in earnings and is expected to continue to |
economic growth | steady growth in the productive capacity of the economy (and so a growth of national income) |
growth growing maturation development ontogeny ontogenesis | (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically, a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level, he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children |
growth | a progression from simpler to more complex forms, the growth of culture |
increase increment growth | a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important, the increase in unemployment, the growth of population |
population growth | increase in the number of people who inhabit a territory or state |
type I diabetes insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus IDDM juvenile-onset diabetes juvenile diabetes growth-onset diabetes ketosis-prone diabetes ketoacidosis-prone diabetes autoimmune diabetes | severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset, characterized by polyuria and excessive thirst and increased appetite and weight loss and episodic ketoacidosis, diet and insulin injections are required to control the disease |
growth | (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor) |
growth factor | a protein that is involved in cell differentiation and growth |
nerve growth factor NGF | a protein that is involved in the growth of peripheral nerve cells |
phytohormone plant hormone growth regulator | (botany) a plant product that acts like a hormone |
growth hormoneeleasing factor GHRF | a releasing factor that accelerates the secretion of growth hormone by the anterior pituitary body |
growth rate rate of growth | the rate of increase in size per unit time |
quick time | a normal marching pace ofsteps per minute |
quick-freeze flash-freeze | freeze rapidly so as to preserve the natural juices and flavors, quick-freeze the shrimp |
agile nimble quick spry | moving quickly and lightly, sleek and agile as a gymnast, as nimble as a deer, nimble fingers, quick of foot, the old dog was so spry it was halfway up the stairs before we could stop it |
quick-witted | mentally nimble and resourceful, quick-witted debater, saved an embarrassing situation with quick-witted tact |
quick-change(a) | adept at changing from one thing to another especially changing costumes, a quick-change artist |
quick-drying | of a liquid substance that dries quickly |
sharp-eared quick-eared | having keen hearing |
quick warm | easily aroused or excited, a quick temper, a warm temper |
double-quick | (of a marching cadence) very quick |
immediate prompt quick straightaway | performed with little or no delay, an immediate reply to my letter, a prompt reply, was quick to respond, a straightaway denial |
quick speedy | accomplished rapidly and without delay, was quick to make friends, his quick reaction prevented an accident, hoped for a speedy resolution of the problem, a speedy recovery, he has a right to a speedy trial |
flash-frozen quick-frozen frozen | (used of foods) preserved by freezing sufficiently rapidly to retain flavor and nutritional value, frozen foods |
choleric irascible hotheaded hot-tempered quick-tempered short-tempered | quickly aroused to anger, a hotheaded commander |
flying quick fast | hurried and brief, paid a flying visit, took a flying glance at the book, a quick inspection, a fast visit |
quick ready | apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity, a quick mind, a ready wit |
quick-sighted sharp-sighted sharp-eyed | keenly perceptive or alert, quick-sighted into the faults of the time- Leonard Bacon |
argus-eyed hawk-eyed keen-sighted lynx-eyed quick-sighted sharp-eyed sharp-sighted | having very keen vision, quick-sighted as a cat |
promptly quickly quick | with little or no delay, the rescue squad arrived promptly, come here, quick! |