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Type Words
Synonyms erratic, fickle, mercurial


a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next.
Type Words
Synonyms atomic number 80, hg, hydrargyrum, mercury
Type of metal, metallic element

Examples of quicksilver

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For gold ore, the gold was typically recovered by amalgamation with quicksilver.
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Staying close to the quicksilver Maclin was a challenge for the 225-pound Lavine.
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Kuchipudi dancers are quicksilver and scintillating, rounded and fleet-footed.
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Perry casts the quicksilver Serle, tall and lithe, in his place opposite McCracken.
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Garnett was a quicksilver inside forward who would run all day and all night.
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Back outside, Sosa's conversation skitters in a quicksilver way from here to there.
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Now, just as abruptly, a quicksilver change is occurring in the course of all three.
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Quicksilver special editions offer a useful combination of equipment, looks and value.
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The timbre in his voice seems to grow richer, his quicksilver movement more alarming.
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  • Erratic: liable to sudden unpredictable change; "erratic behavior"; "fickle weather"; "mercurial twists of temperament"; "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next"
  • Mercury: a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures
  • Quicksilver is a line of ultralight aircraft that evolved from weight shift hang gliders including Bob Lovejoy's High Tailer.
  • Quicksilver is the sixth album by American psychedelic rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service. Released in November 1971, it was the first album without original members John Cipollina and David Freiberg. Nicky Hopkins had also left at this point to continue his successful journeyman career. ...
  • Quiksilver, Inc. , based in Huntington Beach, California, is one of the world's largest manufacturers of surfwear and other boardsport-related equipment. ...
  • Max Mercury is a fictional character, a DC Comics superhero based on Quality Comics' Quicksilver.
  • Quicksilver is a 1986 feature film starring Kevin Bacon. Written and directed by Thomas Michael Donnelly, the film also includes Jami Gertz, Paul Rodriguez, Louie Anderson, Laurence Fishburne, and Rudy Ramos.
  • Quicksilver was a game show hosted by Ron Maestri that aired on USA Network from June 27, 1994 to October 13, 1995. For its first month, it was paired with another Stone-Stanley game show Free 4 All (which aired immediately after Quicksilver) on the network's afternoon game show block. ...
  • "Quicksilver" was a song written and performed by the band Pink Floyd for their album Soundtrack from the Film More. It appeared in shortened form in the live suite The Man and the Journey, where it was entitled "Sleep". ...