Photo vs Flick - What's the difference?
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Photograph.
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A short, quick movement, especially a brush, sweep, or flip.
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(informal) A motion picture; (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.
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The act of pressing a place on a touch screen device.
A flitch.
To move or hit (something) with a short, quick motion.
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As nouns the difference between photo and flick
is that photo is photograph while flick is a short, quick movement, especially a brush, sweep, or flip.As verbs the difference between photo and flick
is that photo is to take a photograph while flick is to move or hit (something) with a short, quick motion.photo
English
Noun
(en noun)Catherine Clabby
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Verb
(en verb)- What fun to be photoed together, / What luck for a break so opportune. / Oh, what a lark / To be posed in the park / Underneath the adolescent crescent of the moon.
- He even had himself photoed helping to hold one of the fire-hose.
- Always photoing exits. What are all these ways out but rehearsals for his own?
See also
* photo- * photosensitive * photosynthesis, photosynthesize * photogenic * photocell * photo finish * photo opportunity * snapshot ----flick
English
Noun
(en noun)- He removed the speck of dust with a flick of his finger.
- She gave a disdainful flick of her hair and marched out of the room.
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- My all-time favorite flick is "Gone with the Wind."
- Want to go to the flicks tonight?
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- a flick of bacon
Synonyms
* (short, quick movement)'' fillip (''of the finger ) * (cinema) the picturesVerb
(en verb)- flick one's hair
- with a flick of the wrist
- to flick the dirt from boots
- 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.
- (Thackeray)