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Rigid vs Strick - What's the difference?

rigid | strick |

As an adjective rigid

is stiff, rather than flexible.

As a noun strick is

a flat piece of wood used for levelling off grain in a measure; a strickle.

rigid

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Stiff, rather than flexible.
  • Fixed, rather than moving.
  • * 2011 ,David Foster Wallace, The Pale King ,Penguin Books, page 5:
    • A sunflower, four more, one bowed, and horses in the distance standing rigid and still as toys.
  • Rigorous and unbending.
  • Uncompromising.

    • Synonyms

    * unbending, inflexible

    Antonyms

    * flexible * moving * compromising

    Derived terms

    * rigidity * rigidly * rigidness

    Related terms

    * rigor * rigour

    References

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    strick

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A flat piece of wood used for levelling off grain in a measure; a strickle.
  • A bushel measure.
  • A bunch of hackled flax prepared for drawing into slivers.
    • (Knight)
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