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flick
English
Etymology
Perhaps related to flicker.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fl?k/
- Rhymes: -?k
- Homophone: flic
Noun
flick (plural flicks)
- A short, quick movement, especially a brush, sweep, or flip.
- (informal) A motion picture, movie, film; (in plural, usually preceded by "the") movie theater, cinema.
- (fencing) A cut that lands with the point, often involving a whip of the foible of the blade to strike at a concealed target.
- (tennis) A powerful underarm volley shot.
- The act of pressing a place on a touch screen device.
- A flitch.
- A unit of time, equal to 1/705,600,000 of a second
- (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?'
- 1920, H. C. McNeile, Bulldog Drummond
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)
- 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
- singular imperative of flicken
flick From the web:
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grazing
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???e?z??/
Verb
grazing
- present participle of graze
Derived terms
- Earth-grazing
Noun
grazing (countable and uncountable, plural grazings)
- Grazeland.
- (uncountable) The action of animals eating, mainly of grass in a field or on other grassland.
grazing From the web:
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- what grazing land means
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- what grazing in spanish
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