different between flick vs graze

English

Etymology

Perhaps related to flicker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fl?k/

• Rhymes: -?k

  Homophone: flic

Noun

flick (plural flicks)

1. A short, quick movement, especially a brush, sweep, or flip.
2. (informal) A motion picture, movie, film; (in plural, usually preceded by "the") movie theater, cinema.

3. (fencing) A cut that lands with the point, often involving a whip of the foible of the blade to strike at a concealed target.
4. (tennis) A powerful underarm volley shot.
5. The act of pressing a place on a touch screen device.
6. A flitch.

7. A unit of time, equal to 1/705,600,000 of a second
8. (dated, slang) A chap or fellow; sometimes as a friendly term of address.
   • 1920, H. C. McNeile, Bulldog Drummond

     'All that I have, dear old flick, is yours for the asking. What can I do?'

Synonyms

• (short, quick movement) fillip (of the finger)
• (cinema) the pictures

Descendants

• ? Afrikaans: fliek

Translations

Verb

flick (third-person singular simple present flicks, present participle flicking, simple past and past participle flicked)

1. To move or hit (something) with a short, quick motion.

   • Using her hands like windshield wipers, she tried to flick snow away from her mouth. When she clawed at her chest and neck, the crumbs maddeningly slid back onto her face. She grew claustrophobic.

   • 1860, William Makepeace Thackeray, The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century and Charity and Humour

     the Queen, flicking the snuff off her sleeve […]

Derived terms

• flick knife
• flick off
• flick the bean

Related terms

• flicker

Translations

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fl?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Verb

flick

1. singular imperative of flicken

English

Etymology

From Old English grasian (“to feed on grass”), from græs (“grass”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?z/
• Homophones: grays, greys
• Rhymes: -e?z

Noun

graze (plural grazes)

1. The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.
2. A light abrasion; a slight scratch.
3. The act of animals feeding from pasture.
   • 1904, Empire Review (volume 6, page 188)

     If it be sundown, when the herds are returning from their daily graze in the long grass of the jungle, clouds of dust will be marking their track along every approach to the village […]

Translations

Verb

graze (third-person singular simple present grazes, present participle grazing, simple past and past participle grazed)

1. (transitive) To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
   • 1731, Jonathan Swift, Considerations upon Two Bills Relating to the Clergy

     a field or two to graze his cows

   • 1999: Although it is perfectly good meadowland, none of the villagers has ever grazed animals on the meadow on the other side of the wall. — Stardust, Neil Gaiman, page 4 (2001 Perennial Edition).
2. (transitive, intransitive) To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture)

   Cattle graze in the meadows.

   • 1993, John Montroll, Origami Inside-Out (page 41)

     The bird [Canada goose] is more often found on land than other waterfowl because of its love for seeds and grains. The long neck is well adapted for grazing.

3. (transitive) To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
   • 1596-98, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, act I, scene iii:

     Shylock: When Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep

4. (intransitive) To eat periodically throughout the day, rather than at fixed mealtimes.
   • 2008, Mohgah Elsheikh, Caroline Murphy, Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

     Furthermore, people who take the time to sit down to proper meals find their food more satisfying than people who graze throughout the day. If you skip meals, you will inevitably end up snacking on more high-fat high-sugar foods.

5. To shoplift by consuming food or drink items before reaching the checkout.
   • 1992, Shoplifting (page 18)

     Grazing refers to customers who consume food items before paying for them, for example, a customer bags one and a half pounds of grapes in the produce department, eats some as she continues her shopping […]

   • 2001, Labor Arbitration Information System (volume 2, page 59)

     Had the Grievant attempted to pay for the Mylanta or actually paid for it, then she would not be guilty of grazing or shoplifting.

6. (transitive) To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing.

   the bullet grazed the wall

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 23

     But in that gale, the port, the land, is that ship’s direst jeopardy; she must fly all hospitality; one touch of land, though it but graze the keel, would make her shudder through and through.

7. (transitive) To cause a slight wound to; to scratch.

   to graze one's knee

8. (intransitive) To yield grass for grazing.

Derived terms

• Earth-grazing
• grazing fire
• overgraze

Translations

Anagrams

• Garzê, Zager, gazer

Dutch

Verb

graze

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of grazen