different between jab vs quicken

jab

English

Etymology

Originally a Scottish (unclear if Scots or Scottish English) form of English job (peck, poke, thrust), from Middle English jobben.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d?æb/
  • Rhymes: -æb

Noun

jab (plural jabs)

  1. A quick stab or blow; a poking or thrusting motion.
    • 1952, Bernard Malamud, The Natural, Chapter 9,
      He tore in for the ball, make a running jab for it and held it.
  2. (boxing) A short straight punch.
  3. (Britain) A medical hypodermic injection (vaccination or inoculation)
    Our dog was exposed to rabies, so the whole family went to a clinic to get our jabs.
  4. (Britain, Australia) A vaccination, whether or not delivered via conventional injection.
  5. (US, figuratively) A mild verbal insult.

Derived terms

  • jabby

Translations

Verb

jab (third-person singular simple present jabs, present participle jabbing, simple past and past participle jabbed)

  1. To poke or thrust abruptly, or to make such a motion.
  2. To deliver a quick punch.
  3. (slang, Britain) To give someone an injection

Translations

References

Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “jab”, in Online Etymology Dictionary


Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English job.

Noun

jab m (genitive singular jab, nominative plural jabanna)

  1. job, piece of work
  2. post, employment

Declension

Derived terms

  • jabaire m ((cattle-)jobber)

References

  • "jab" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English jab.

Noun

jab m (invariable)

  1. jab (boxing punch)

Spanish

Noun

jab m (plural jabs)

  1. (boxing) jab

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quicken

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?kw?k?n/
  • Rhymes: -?k?n

Etymology 1

From Middle English quikenen, equivalent to quick +? -en. Cognate Danish kvikne (to quicken, revive), Swedish kvickna (to revive), Icelandic kvikna (to turn on, ignite).

Verb

quicken (third-person singular simple present quickens, present participle quickening, simple past and past participle quickened)

  1. (transitive, literary) To give life to; to animate, make alive, revive. [from 14thc.]
    • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke XVII:
      Whosoever will goo about to save his lyfe, shall loose it: And whosoever shall loose his life, shall quycken it.
    • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 3 scene 1
      The mistress which I serve quickens what's dead, / And makes my labours pleasures
    • Like a fruitful garden without an hedge, that quickens the appetite to enjoy so tempting a prize.
  2. (intransitive, literary) To come back to life, receive life. [from 14th c.]
  3. (intransitive) To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be roused, excited. [from 15th c.]
  4. (intransitive) Of a pregnant woman: to first feel the movements of the foetus, or reach the stage of pregnancy at which this takes place; of a foetus: to begin to move. [from 16th c.]
    • 2013, Hilary Mantel, ‘Royal Bodies’, London Review of Books, 35.IV:
      Royal pregnancies were not announced in those days; the news generally crept out, and public anticipation was aroused only when the child quickened.
  5. (transitive) To make quicker; to hasten, speed up. [from 17thc.]
    • 2000, George RR Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam 2011, p.47:
      That day Arya quickened their pace, keeping the horses to a trot as long as she dared, and sometimes spurring to a gallop when she spied a flat stretch of field before them.
  6. (intransitive) To become faster. [from 17thc.]
    • Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
  7. (shipbuilding) To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper.
Translations

Etymology 2

Apparently from quick, with uncertain final element.

Noun

quicken (plural quickens)

  1. (now chiefly Northern England) The European rowan, Sorbus aucuparia. [from 15th c.]
    • 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not…, Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), p, 104:
      Miss Wannop moved off down the path: it was only suited for Indian file, and had on the left hand a ten-foot, untrimmed quicken hedge, the hawthorn blossoms just beginning to blacken […].
Synonyms
  • quickbeam
See also
  • quickens

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

quicken

  1. inflection of quick:
    1. strong genitive masculine/neuter singular
    2. weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
    3. strong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
    4. strong dative plural
    5. weak/mixed all-case plural

Old Dutch

Etymology

From quic +? -en.

Verb

quicken

  1. to come to life

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • Middle Dutch: quicken

Further reading

  • “kwikken”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

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