different between upset vs quicken
upset
English
Etymology
From Middle English upset (“the act of setting up; establishment”), from Middle English upsetten, corresponding to up- +? set. Cognate with Middle Low German upset (“setup; arrangement”).
Pronunciation
- Noun
- enPR: ?p?s?t, IPA(key): /??ps?t/
- Adjective, verb
- enPR: ?ps?t?, IPA(key): /?p?s?t/
- Rhymes: -?t
Adjective
upset (comparative more upset, superlative most upset)
- (of a person) Angry, distressed, or unhappy.
- He was upset when she refused his friendship.
- My children often get upset with their classmates.
- (of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract, referred to as stomach) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
- His stomach was upset, so he didn't want to move.
Synonyms
- (angry, distressed, unhappy): See angry, distressed and unhappy
- in a tizzy
Derived terms
- upset price
Translations
Noun
upset (countable and uncountable, plural upsets)
- (uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.
- My late arrival caused the professor considerable upset.
- (countable, sports, politics) An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
- (automobile insurance) An overturn.
- "collision and upset": impact with another object or an overturn for whatever reason.
- An upset stomach.
- 1958 May 12, advertisement, Life, volume 44, number 19, page 110 [3]:
- "Bob, let's cancel the babysitter. With this upset stomach, I can't go out tonight.
- "Try Pepto-Bismol. Hospital tests prove it relieves upsets. And it's great for indigestion or nausea, too!"
- 1958 May 12, advertisement, Life, volume 44, number 19, page 110 [3]:
- (mathematics) An upper set; a subset (X,?) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x?y, then y is in U.
- (aviation) The dangerous situation where the flight attitude or airspeed of an aircraft is outside the designed bounds of operation, possibly resulting in loss of control.
Synonyms
- (disturbance, disruption): disruption, disturbance
- (unexpected victory of a competitor):
Translations
Derived terms
- jet upset
Verb
upset (third-person singular simple present upsets, present participle upsetting, simple past and past participle upset)
- (transitive) To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
- I’m sure the bad news will upset him, but he needs to know.
- (transitive) To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
- Introducing a foreign species can upset the ecological balance.
- The fatty meat upset his stomach.
- (transitive) To tip or overturn (something).
- 1924, W. D. Ross translator, Aristitle, Metaphysics, Book 1, Part 9, The Classical Library, Nashotah, Wisconsin, 2001.
- But this argument, which first Anaxagoras and later Eudoxus and certain others used, is very easily upset; for it is not difficult to collect many insuperable objections to such a view.
- 1924, W. D. Ross translator, Aristitle, Metaphysics, Book 1, Part 9, The Classical Library, Nashotah, Wisconsin, 2001.
- (transitive) To defeat unexpectedly.
- Truman upset Dewey in the 1948 US presidential election.
- (intransitive) To be upset or knocked over.
- The carriage upset when the horse bolted.
- (obsolete) To set up; to put upright.
- R. of Brunne
- with sail on mast upset
- R. of Brunne
- To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
- To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
Synonyms
- (make someone angry, distressed or unhappy): See anger, distress, forset, and sadden
- (disturb, disrupt, adversely alter): disrupt, disturb, forset, turn upside down
- (tip, overturn): invert, overturn, forset, tip, tip over, tip up, turn over, turn upside down
Derived terms
- upset the applecart
- upset the natives
Translations
Anagrams
- TUPEs, Tse-p'u, puets, set up, set-up, setup, spute, stupe
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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)
- (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.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke XVII:
- (intransitive, literary) To come back to life, receive life. [from 14th c.]
- (intransitive) To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be roused, excited. [from 15th c.]
- (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.
- 2013, Hilary Mantel, ‘Royal Bodies’, London Review of Books, 35.IV:
- (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.
- 2000, George RR Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam 2011, p.47:
- (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.
- (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)
- (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 […].
- 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not…, Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), p, 104:
Synonyms
- quickbeam
See also
- quickens
German
Pronunciation
Adjective
quicken
- inflection of quick:
- strong genitive masculine/neuter singular
- weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
- strong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
- strong dative plural
- weak/mixed all-case plural
Old Dutch
Etymology
From quic +? -en.
Verb
quicken
- 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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