Sick vs Slick - What's the difference?
sick | slick |
In poor health.
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, chapter=7 (colloquial) Mentally unstable, disturbed.
(colloquial) In bad taste.
Having an urge to vomit.
(slang) Very good, excellent, awesome.
In poor condition.
(agriculture) Failing to sustain adequate harvests of crop, usually specified.
Tired of or annoyed by something.
Sick people in general as a group.
(colloquial) vomit.
To vomit.
:I woke up at 4 am and sicked on the floor.
(obsolete) To fall sick; to sicken.
* circa 1598 , William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, part 2 :
(rare)
* 1920 , James Oliver Curwood, "Back to God's Country"
* 1938 , Eugene Gay-Tifft, translator, The Saga of Frank Dover by Johannes Buchholtz, 2005 Kessinger Publishing edition, ISBN 141915222X, page 125,
* 1957 , , 1991 LB Books edition, page 154,
* 2001 (publication date), Anna Heilman, Never Far Away: The Auschwitz Chronicles of Anna Heilman , University of Calgary Press, ISBN 1552380408, page 82,
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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work=New York Times, passage=So I slicked the broccoli with oil and seasonings and set it to roast.}}
As adjectives the difference between sick and slick
is that sick is in poor health while slick is slippery due to a covering of liquid; often used to describe appearances.As nouns the difference between sick and slick
is that sick is sick people in general as a group while slick is a covering of liquid, particularly oil.As verbs the difference between sick and slick
is that sick is to vomit while slick is to make slick.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.sick
English
(wikipedia sick)Etymology 1
Middle English sek, sik, from (etyl) .Adjective
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citation, passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’}}
Synonyms
* (in poor health) ill, not well, poorly (British), sickly, unwell * (mentally unstable) disturbed, twisted, warped. * (having an urge to vomit) nauseated, nauseous * rad, wicked * See alsoAntonyms
* (in poor health) fit, healthy, well * (excellent) crap, naff, uncoolDerived terms
* airsick * be sick * brainsick * carsick * dogsick * fall sick * heartsick * homesick * iron-sick, iron sick, ironsick * junk sick * lovesick * nailsick, nail sick, nailsick * seasick * sick and tired * sick and twisted * sick as a dog * sick bag * sickbay * sickbed * sick building syndrome * sick day * sicken * sickening * sickhouse * sickie * sickish * sick joke * sickly * sickness * sick note * sick pay * sick puppy * sicko * sickout * sickroom * sick to one's stomach * soulsick * thoughtsickNoun
(-)- We have to cure the sick .
- He lay there in a pool of his own sick .
Synonyms
* (vomit) SeeVerb
(en verb)- Our great-grandsire, Edward, sick'd and died.
Etymology 2
Verb
(en verb)- "Wapi," she almost screamed, "go back! Sick' 'em, Wapi—'''sick''' 'em—'''sick''' 'em—' sick 'em!"
- When we were at work swabbing the deck, necessarily barelegged, Pelle would sick the dog on us; and it was an endless source of pleasure to him when the dog succeeded in fastening its teeth in our legs and making the blood run down our ankles.
- "...is just something God sicks on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world."
- Now they find a new entertainment: they sick the dog on us.
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 .