different between flim vs flick
flim
English
Noun
flim
- Misspelling of film.
Jamaican Creole
Alternative forms
- film
Etymology
From English film.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fl?m/
- Hyphenation: flim
Noun
flim (plural: flim dem, quantified: flim)
- film
See also
- cerfiticket
flim From the web:
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:
- what flickers
- what flick means
- what flicker means
- what flickering lights mean
- what flickers in the night sky
- what flickr
- what flicker character are you
- what flicker role are you
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