different between snick vs slick

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sn?k/

Etymology 1

Probably from snick or snee.

Verb

snick (third-person singular simple present snicks, present participle snicking, simple past and past participle snicked)

1. (transitive) To cut or snip.
2. (cricket) To hit (the ball) with the edge of the bat, causing a slight deflection.

Noun

snick (plural snicks)

1. (cricket) A small deflection of the ball off the side of the bat; often carries to the wicketkeeper for a catch.
2. A small cut or mark.
3. A knot or irregularity in yarn.

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Etymology 2

Imitative.

Verb

snick (third-person singular simple present snicks, present participle snicking, simple past and past participle snicked)

1. To make something click, to make a clicking noise.

Noun

snick (plural snicks)

1. A sharp clicking sound.

Etymology 3

Verb

snick (third-person singular simple present snicks, present participle snicking, simple past and past participle snicked)

1. Alternative form of sneck

Anagrams

• Nicks, nicks, scink

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sl?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English slicke, slike, slyke, from Old English sl?c (“sleek, smooth; crafty, cunning, slick”), from Proto-Germanic *sl?kaz (“sleek, smooth”),from Proto-Indo-European *sleyg-, *sley?- (“to glide, smooth, spread”). Akin to Dutch sluik, dialectal Dutch sleek (“even, smooth”), Old Norse slíkr (“sleek, smooth”), Old English slician (“to make sleek, smooth, or glossy”).

Adjective

slick (comparative slicker, superlative slickest)

1. Slippery or smooth due to a covering of liquid; often used to describe appearances.

   This rain is making the roads slick.

   The top coating of lacquer gives this finish a slick look.

   His large round head was shaved slick.

2. Appearing expensive or sophisticated.

   They read all kinds of slick magazines.

3. Superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy.

   That new sales rep is slick. Be sure to read the fine print before you buy anything.

   • 2014, Ian Black, "Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis", The Guardian, 27 November 2014:

     The threat the most radical of them pose is evidently far greater at home than abroad: in one characteristically slick and chilling Isis video – entitled “a message to the Jordanian tyrant” – a smiling, long-haired young man in black pats the explosive belt round his waist as he burns his passport and his fellow fighters praise the memory of Zarqawi, who was killed in Iraq in 2006.

4. (often used sarcastically) Clever, making an apparently hard task easy.

   Our new process for extracting needles from haystacks is extremely slick.

   That was a slick move, locking your keys in the car.

5. (US, West Coast slang) Extraordinarily great or special.

   That is one slick bicycle: it has all sorts of features!

6. sleek; smooth

Translations

Noun

slick (plural slicks)

1. A covering of liquid, particularly oil.

2. (by extension, hydrodynamics, US, dated) A rapidly-expanding ring of dark water, resembling an oil slick, around the site of a large underwater explosion at shallow depth, marking the progress through the water of the shock wave generated by the explosion.
3. Someone who is clever and untrustworthy.
4. A tool used to make something smooth or even.
5. (sports, automotive) A tire with a smooth surface instead of a tread pattern, often used in auto racing.

   Synonyms: slick tire, slick tyre

6. (US, military slang) A helicopter.
7. (printing) A camera-ready image to be used by a printer. The "slick" is photographed to produce a negative image which is then used to burn a positive offset plate or other printing device.

8. A wide paring chisel used in joinery.

Coordinate terms

(phenomenon from underwater explosion):

• crack

Translations

Verb

slick (third-person singular simple present slicks, present participle slicking, simple past and past participle slicked)

1. To make slick.

   The surface had been slicked.

Related terms

• slick as snot
• slick cam
• slicker
• slicken
• slick back
• slick down
• slickstone
• slick-tech
• slick up

Etymology 2

Noun

slick

1. Alternative form of schlich

Anagrams

• Licks, licks