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Crick
| cricket
| cricket ball
| cricket bat
| cricket equipment
| cricket frog
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Crick
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Crick has 2 senses
- crick(n = noun.state) kink, rick, wrick - a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British); Array is a kind of cramp, muscle spasm, spasm
- crick(n = noun.person) francis crick, francis henry compton crick - English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004); Array is a kind of biochemist
Derived form verb crick1
Verb Crick has 1 sense
- crick(v = verb.body) Array - twist (a body part) into a strained position; "crick your neck" is one way to twist
Derived form noun crick1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
Crick, n. [See Creak.].
The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it. Johnson. [1913 Webster]
- A painful, spasmodic affection of the muscles of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, rendering it difficult to move the part. [1913 Webster]" To those also that, with a crick or cramp, have thei necks drawn backward." [1913 Webster]
- A small jackscrew. Knight. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Crick, n. & v.
--n. a sudden painful stiffness in the neck or the back etc.
--v.tr. produce a crick in (the neck etc.).
--n. a sudden painful stiffness in the neck or the back etc.
--v.tr. produce a crick in (the neck etc.).
Etymology
ME: orig. unkn.
THESAURUS
Crick
acute pain, bite, boring pain, branch, brook, charley horse, chirk, chirking, chirp, chirrup, cramp, cramps, creak, darting pain, fulgurant pain, gill, girdle pain, gnawing, griping, hitch, jumping pain, kink, lancinating pain, nip, pang, paroxysm, pinch, prick, race, rivulet, run, runnel, seizure, sharp pain, shoot, shooting, shooting pain, spasm, stab, stabbing pain, stitch, stream, stridulate, stridulation, thrill, throes, tormen, tweak, twinge, twitch, wrenchROGET THESAURUS
Crick
Physical Pain
N physical pain, pain, suffering, sufferance, suffrance, bodily pain, physical pain, bodily suffering, physical suffering, body pain, mental suffering, dolour, ache, aching, smart, shoot, shooting, twinge, twitch, gripe, headache, stomach ache, heartburn, angina, angina pectoris, hurt, cut, sore, soreness, discomfort, malaise, cephalalgia, earache, gout, ischiagra, lumbago, neuralgia, odontalgia, otalgia, podagra, rheumatism, sciatica, tic douloureux, toothache, tormina, torticollis, spasm, cramp, nightmare, ephialtes, crick, stitch, thrill, convulsion, throe, throb, pang, colic, kink, sharp pain, piercing pain, throbbing pain, shooting pain, sting, gnawing pain, burning pain, excruciating pain, anguish, agony, torment, torture, rack, cruciation, crucifixion, martyrdom, toad under a harrow, vivisection, in pain, in a state of pain, pained, gouty, podagric, torminous, painful, aching, sore, raw, Special Sensation (1) Touch.
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