The difference between Quick and Speedy

When used as verbs, quick means to amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid, whereas speedy means to process in a faster than normal, accelerated way.

When used as adjectives, quick means moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so, whereas speedy means rapid.

Quick is also noun with the meaning: raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.

Quick is also adverb with the meaning: quickly.

check bellow for the other definitions of Quick and Speedy

  1. Quick as an adjective:

    Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.

    Examples:

    "I ran to the station – but I wasn't quick enough."

    "He's a quick runner."

  2. Quick as an adjective:

    Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.

    Examples:

    "That was a quick meal."

  3. Quick as an adjective:

    Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.

    Examples:

    "You have to be very quick to be able to compete in ad-lib theatrics."

  4. Quick as an adjective:

    Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.

    Examples:

    "My father is old but he still has a quick wit."

  5. Quick as an adjective:

    Of temper: easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.

  6. Quick as an adjective (archaic):

    Alive, living.

  7. Quick as an adjective (archaic):

    Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.

  8. Quick as an adjective:

    Of water: flowing.

  9. Quick as an adjective:

    Burning, flammable, fiery.

  10. Quick as an adjective:

    Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.

  11. Quick as an adjective (mining, of a [[vein]] of [[ore]]):

    productive; not "dead" or barren

  1. Quick as an adverb:

    quickly

  2. Quick as an adverb (colloquial):

    with speed

    Examples:

    "Get rich quick."

    "Come here, quick!"

  1. Quick as a noun:

    raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.

  2. Quick as a noun:

    plants used in making a quickset hedge

  3. Quick as a noun:

    The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.

  4. Quick as a noun:

    quitchgrass

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Tennyson"

  5. Quick as a noun (cricket):

    A fast bowler.

  1. Quick as a verb (transitive):

    To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.

  2. Quick as a verb (transitive, archaic, poetic):

    To quicken.

  1. Speedy as an adjective:

    rapid; swift

  1. Speedy as a verb (transitive):

    to process in a faster than normal, accelerated way

  2. Speedy as a verb (internet, slang, transitive, Wiktionary and WMF jargon):

    to apply the speedy rule in an online community (often the deletion rule); speedy delete

    Examples:

    "The guy is *not* so obviously insignificant that speedying him is appropriate."

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