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Quicken

Quicken is a personal finance management tool developed by Intuit, Inc.Different versions of Quicken run on Windows and Macintosh systems. Previous versions ran on DOS.

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quicken

Noun

  1. The European rowan tree.

Verb

  1. To give life to; to animate, make alive, revive.
  2. To come back to life, receive life.
  3. To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be roused, excited.
  4. 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.
  5. To make quicker; to hasten, speed up.
  6. To become faster.
    My heartbeat quickened when I heard him approach.
  7. To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper.
    to quicken the sheer, that is, to make its curve more pronounced


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