From Middle English quyk lym; equivalent to quick + lime.
quicklime (countable and uncountable, plural quicklimes)
- Calcium oxide, which is produced by heating (calcining) limestone and gives slaked lime on treatment with water.
1898, Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol:The Warders strutted up and down, / And kept their herd of brutes, / Their uniforms were spick and span, / And they wore their Sunday suits, / But we knew the work they had been at, / By the quicklime on their boots.
calcium oxide
- Albanian: gëlqere (sq) f
- Armenian: կիր (hy) (kir)
- Belarusian: ва́пна n (vápna)
- Bulgarian: негасена вар f (negasena var)
- Catalan: calç (ca) f, calcina (ca) f (Algherese)
- Chechen: кир (kir)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 石灰 (zh) (shíhuī)
- Czech: vápno (cs) n
- Danish: kalk (da)
- Dutch: ongebluste kalk m
- Esperanto: kalko (eo)
- Finnish: kalkki (fi)
- French: chaux vive (fr) f
- Georgian: კირი (ka) (ḳiri)
- German: gebrannter Kalk m, Branntkalk m, ungelöschter Kalk m, Kalkerde f, Ätzkalk (de) m, Calciumoxid
- Greek:
- Ancient: ἄσβεστος f (ásbestos)
- Gujarati: કળીચૂનો (kaḷīcūno)
- Hindi: अनबुझा चूना (anbujhā cūnā)
- Hungarian: mész (hu)
- Icelandic: kalk (is) n
- Ido: kalko (io)
- Ingush: кир (kir)
- Irish: aol beo m
- Italian: calce viva f
- Japanese: 石灰 (ja) (せっかい, sekkai)
- Korean: 생석회, saengseoghoe (saengseokhoe, saengseoghoe)
- Latvian: kaļķis (lv) m
- Laz: კირი (ǩiri)
- Macedonian: вар f (var)
- Malayalam: നീറ്റുകക്ക (ml) (nīṟṟukakka)
- Ossetian:
- Digor: къирӕ (k’iræ)
- Iron: чъыр (ḱ’yr)
- Polish: wapno (pl) n, wapno niegaszone n
- Portuguese: cal virgem f, cal viva f
- Romanian: var (ro) n, var nestins (ro) n
- Russian: негашёная и́звесть f (negašónaja ízvestʹ), жжёная и́звесть f (žžónaja ízvestʹ)
- Sardinian:
- Campidanese: carcína
- Logudorese: calchína
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: вапно n
- Roman: vapno (sh) n
- Spanish: cal viva f, cal (es) f
- Swedish: kalk (sv) c, bränd kalk c, osläckt kalk c
- Turkish: kalsiyum oksit (tr), sönmemiş kireç, yanmış kireç
- Ukrainian: ва́пно (uk) n (vápno), палене ва́пно (uk) n (palene vápno), негашене ва́пно (uk) n (nehašene vápno)
- Welsh: calch brwd
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quicklime (third-person singular simple present quicklimes, present participle quickliming, simple past and past participle quicklimed)
- (transitive) To treat with quicklime.