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UK
/kwˈɪksɪlvɐ/
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[ US /ˈkwɪkˈsɪɫvɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈkwɪkˈsɪɫvɝ/ ]
NOUN
- a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures
ADJECTIVE
-
liable to sudden unpredictable change
mercurial twists of temperament
fickle weather
a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next
erratic behavior
How To Use quicksilver In A Sentence
- More impressive still is his quicksilver dexterity in following the ever-changing contours of Sibelius' form.
- Boyle suggested that the divergence from the expected result in the case of rarefaction may have been due to "some little aerial bubbles in the quicksilver" ( "so easy is it in such nice experiments to miss of exactness," he added). Sticky Wants to Grab
- i was a hardcore windows fan until 4 years ago, finally since XP was getting so old and I wanted a new computer i decided to try it out. it took a bit. but life changed. quicksilver is your keyboard answer to anything drag and drop. mac osx is your answer to anything windows. Why I Didn’t Buy A Mac | Lifehacker Australia
- Tex Avery had wit, quicksilver charm, and near-boundless inventive genius.
- Though now a barely functioning ruin of the quicksilver artistic spirit he once was, Avram is as richly imagined a character as Ora. Mother tries to stay ahead of grief in David Grossman's "To the End of the Land"
- By heaven, they ought to be worked in quicksilver mines.
- Shpack is herein classed Russian for lack of a more adequate term; for Shpack's father, a Slavonic convict from the Lower Provinces, had escaped from the quicksilver mines into Northern Siberia, where he knew Zimba, who was a woman of the Deer People and who became the mother of Shpack, who became the grandfather of Jees Uck. Now had not Shpack been captured in his boyhood by the Sea People, who fringe the rim of the Arctic Sea with their misery, he would not have become the grandfather of Jees Uck and there would be no story at all. THE STORY OF JEES UCK
- Similar qualities had characterized her acting, and they spring from a nature which a close observer has described as clear in perception yet swayed by fantasy; strong of will yet impulsive as quicksilver; finding enjoyment now in animated discussion, now in impetuous riding, now in absolute repose; full of maternal tenderness, yet fond of splendor and the excitements of society; a nature, in short, abounding in contrasts, but substantially that of a true, noble and lovable woman. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873
- Scherzo shows off pianist Ian Brown's quicksilver, biting attacks -- as well as a vicious rasping in Lawrence Power's viola -- a passion that subdues only briefly in the countersubject, since there is no trio to relieve the visceral intensity of the composer's furor. Audiophile Audition Headlines
- By increasing the amount of mercury allowed in coal-fired power plant emissions, he will ensure that every fish in every Great Lake contains unsafe levels of quicksilver.