quickenerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkwɪkənə/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkwɪkənɚ/

名詞

quickener (複数形 quickeners)

1. One who, or that which, quickens, hastens, or speeds up an object or action.
2. That which gives life, animates, or nourishes.
   • 1922, Geoffrey Montagu Cookson (transl.), The Seven against Thebes, page 124 in Four Plays of Aeschylus.

     Where, through the deep, rich soil enwound,
     The waters of Dirce flow?
     Nourisher she of man and mead,
     Quencher of thirst and quickener of seed;

同意語

• (that which quickens): catalyst

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