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Flack vs Slake - What's the difference?

flack | slake |

In intransitive obsolete terms the difference between flack and slake

is that flack is to flutter; palpitate while slake is to go out; to become extinct.

As a noun flack

is a publicist, a publicity agent.

flack

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)
  • (obsolete) To flutter; palpitate.
  • To hang loosely; flag.
  • To beat by flapping.
  • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a publicist, a publicity agent
  • *1998 , , Art Crime: The Montage Art of Winston Smith , page 25
  • *:Edward Bernay, who was a consultant to the US Delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference which terminated the first World War (and who finally wound up as a flack for the United Fruit Company in Latin America), believed that propaganda and its covert marketing could effectively alter the will of the American public.
  • *1999 , Patricia Cornwell, The Southern Cross, page 233
  • *:Thought you were flack ," she said.
  • *:"I'm not flack ."
  • *:"All right, P.R., a reporter, a novelist."
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • to publicise, to promote
  • * 1997 , Don DeLillo, Underworld :
  • [..] he told funny stories about his early days in the theater district, flacking shows up and down the street, but Klara wasn’t listening.

    Etymology 3

    Variant of flak.

    Noun

  • slake

    English

    Verb

    (slak)
  • *Sir (c.1569-1626)
  • *:When the body's strongest sinews slake .
  • *:
  • *:wherfor the quene waxed wroth with sir Launcelot / and vpon a day she called sir launcelot vnto her chamber and saide thus / Sir launcelot I see and fele dayly that thy loue begynneth to slake / for thou hast no Ioye to be in my presence / but euer thou arte oute of thys Courte
  • To go out; to become extinct.
  • *(Thomas Browne) (1605-1682)
  • *:His flame did slake .
  • (label) To satisfy (thirst, or other desires); to quench; to extinguish.
  • *
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:It could not slake mine ire nor ease my heart.
  • *(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
  • *:slake the heavenly fire
  • (label) To cool (something) with water or another liquid.
  • *1961 , (Lawrence Durrell), , p.14:
  • *:Notes for landscape tones. Long sequences of tempera. Light filtered through the essence of lemons. An air full of brick-dust - sweet smelling brick dust and the odour of hot pavements slaked with water.
  • (label) To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place.
  • :
  • (label) To mix with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place.
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  • Derived terms

    * slaked * slake trough

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