Click vs Slick - What's the difference?
click | slick |
A brief, sharp, not particularly loud, relatively high-pitched sound produced by the impact of something small and hard against something hard, such as by the operation of a switch, a lock or a latch, or a finger pressed against the thumb and then released to strike the hand.
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
(phonetics) An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.
Sound made by a dolphin.
The act of operating a switch, etc., so that it clicks.
The act of pressing a button on a computer mouse.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
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, title= To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.
* Ben Jonson
* Thackeray
* Tennyson
(direct and indirect) To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).
To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse button.
(advertising) To visit a web site.
To emit a click.
To click the left button of a computer mouse while pointing.
To make sense suddenly.
To get on well.
(dated) To tick.
* Goldsmith
A detent, pawl, or ratchet, such as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion.
(UK, dialect) The latch of a door.
(obsolete) To snatch.
Slippery due to a covering of liquid; often used to describe appearances.
Appearing expensive or sophisticated.
Superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy.
* 2014 , Ian Black, "
Clever, making an apparently hard task easy; often used sarcastically.
Extraordinarily great or special.
sleek; smooth
* Chapman
A covering of liquid, particularly oil.
Someone who is clever and untrustworthy.
A tool used to make something smooth or even.
(sports, automotive) A tire with a smooth surface instead of a tread pattern, often used in auto racing.
A helicopter.
(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.
A wide paring chisel used in joinery.
To make slick
* {{quote-news,
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date=January 14,
author=Melissa Clark,
title=Green, Gold and Pink: Fast, Easy and Delicious,
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work=New York Times, passage=So I slicked the broccoli with oil and seasonings and set it to roast.}}
As a noun click
is a brief, sharp, not particularly loud, relatively high-pitched sound produced by the impact of something small and hard against something hard, such as by the operation of a switch, a lock or a latch, or a finger pressed against the thumb and then released to strike the hand or click can be or click can be a detent, pawl, or ratchet, such as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion or click can be (us).As a verb click
is to cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click or click can be (obsolete) to snatch or click can be (us).As an interjection click
is the sound of a click.As a proper noun slick is
a term of address, generally applied to males, possibly including strangers, implying that the person addressed is slick in the sense of "sophisticated", but often used sarcastically.click
English
(wikipedia click)Etymology 1
Imitative of the "click" sound; first recorded in the 1500s.Noun
(en noun)- There was a click in the front sitting-room. Mr. Pearce had extinguished the lamp.
The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about:
Verb
(en verb)- [Jove] clicked all his marble thumbs.
- She clicked back the bolt which held the window sash.
- when merry milkmaids click the latch
- Visit a location, call, or click www.example.com
- He bent his fingers back until the joints clicked .
- Click here to go to the next page.
- Then it clicked - I had been going the wrong way all that time.
- When we met at the party, we just clicked and we’ve been best friends ever since.
- The varnished clock that clicked behind the door.
Derived terms
* click one's fingers * double-click * point-and-click * right-clickSee also
* ejective * tsk, tsk tskEtymology 2
Etymology 3
Compare (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 4
(etyl) kleken? clichen? Compare clutch.Verb
(en verb)- (Halliwell)
Etymology 5
slick
English
Adjective
(er)- This rain is making the roads slick .
- The top coating of lacquer gives this finish a slick look.
- They read all kinds of slick magazines.
- That new sales rep is slick . Be sure to read the fine print before you buy anything.
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.
- Our new process for extracting needles from haystacks is extremely slick .
- That was a slick move, locking your keys in the car.
- That is one slick bicycle: it has all sorts of features!
- Both slick and dainty.
Noun
(en noun)- Careful in turn three — there's an oil slick on the road.
- The oil slick has now spread to cover the entire bay, critically endangering the sea life.
- You'll go much faster if you put on slicks .
- The project was delayed because the slick had not been delivered to the printer.
Synonyms
* (tyre) slick tire, slick tyreVerb
(en verb)- The surface had been slicked .