What's the difference between heck and hick?

Heck


Definition:

  • (n.) The bolt or latch of a door.
  • (n.) A rack for cattle to feed at.
  • (n.) A door, especially one partly of latticework; -- called also heck door.
  • (n.) A latticework contrivance for catching fish.
  • (n.) An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.
  • (n.) A bend or winding of a stream.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It might not work, heck it probably won’t work, but something had to change in the Knicks organization.
  • (2) But it seems a heck of a lot of money for just 54 days in post and after getting things so badly wrong."
  • (3) This could prevent a person from taking over if a car loses control, making it “even more important that the details of any accidents be made public so people know what the heck’s going on”.
  • (4) "It's a heck of a lot of money," said the Vermont senator, Bernie Sanders, who is an independent.
  • (5) Guardian staff JamieJackson 22 April 2014 10:48am That's what we're told on a consistent basis: that there is a heck of amount of money available if needed.
  • (6) "Heck, you folks even get Fozzie's jokes, but it was the great impresario Lord Lew Grade who gave us our first big break ... and we're forever grateful to him and to everyone here in England."
  • (7) Zito is looking for that double play to get the heck out of the inning, but is gifted a pop to left that shortstop Brandon Crawford is out to collect.
  • (8) Heck, maybe these early season struggles were the result of the Curse of the Orange Uniforms .
  • (9) An epizootic of focal epithelial hyperplasia (FEH) or Morbus Heck in a pygmy chimpanzee (Pan paniscus) colony is described.
  • (10) Game five's mean a heck of a lot in North American series, and this one is no different.
  • (11) If a misfiring Manchester City can be a goal away from the final, why the heck not?
  • (12) Better coordination of all teacher training routes will have to come, with some sort of middle tier at a local level to ensure supply and quality.” Husbands agrees: “You could get a heck of a long way if you went down the route of school-university alliances.
  • (13) Updated at 1.24am GMT 1.16am GMT Predictions please That is one heck of an act to follow, let me tell ya.
  • (14) Its amino acid composition and N-terminal sequence agree well with results derived from the sequence of the VRS gene [Heck, J.D., & Hatfield, G.W.
  • (15) The disorders mentioned include: eczematous processes, rosacea-like dermatitis, steroid rosacea, acne, especially the diagnosis and therapy of cystic acne, psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, viral infection (Heck's disease) and circumscribed scleroderma versus systemic sclerosis and hemiatrophy of the face.
  • (16) Heck, if the Giants could do it a year ago, why not these Dodgers, who have even better pitching than San Francisco did, not to mention lineup that could wipe the floor with Buster Posey and his buddies on the Bay.
  • (17) The occurrence of focal epithelial hyperplasia (Heck's Disease) in a 12-year-old Mexican-American female is presented.
  • (18) Heck, Davidson even won Edinburgh Central, a constituency where previously the Tory candidate had come fourth.
  • (19) Maybe she lingered over the first chart in the book: That's a heck of a chart.
  • (20) You don't have to approve the way he went about it, heck this writer doesn't approve of the way he went about it, but LeBron James has won his first ring, and there's a good chance it's not going to be his last.

Hick


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 5.13pm BST "As I remember September 11, 2012, it was a routine day at our embassy," Hicks begins.
  • (2) "We began planning to evacuate, and took 55 people to the annexe," said Hicks.
  • (3) During Braxton Hicks' contractions the PI in the recorded vessels did not change.
  • (4) Shorten said while Hicks was “foolish to get caught up in the Afghanistan conflict” the court decision showed an injustice.
  • (5) "In addition, Chris wanted to make a symbolic gesture to the people of Benghazi," Hicks says.
  • (6) Hicks's lawyers had argued their client could not be sued under Australia's criminal profit law because the conditions at Guantanamo amounted to duress.
  • (7) "There was the problem with the former owners [Tom Hicks and George Gillett] and there was the fact that Kenny was so popular, but the job went to me.
  • (8) Hicks says he discussed "mobilizing a Tripoli response team."
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hick's team first identified the existence of the Bili chimps in 2007 but their new survey, published this week in the journal Biological Conservation , reveals a vast, thriving mega-culture.
  • (10) non-classifiables decelerations, loss of fluctuation, absence of Braxton-Hicks contractions) or when other monitoring techniques indicate placentar insufficiency (e.g.
  • (11) "The musicians that made all that great music that's enhanced your lives throughout the years were rrreal fucking high on drugs," posted another, who use six separate payments to reference comic Bill Hicks .
  • (12) Hicks attempted to confront the Australian attorney general, George Brandis, at a human rights event in Sydney in December, saying he was tortured at Guantánamo Bay “in the full knowledge of your party”.
  • (13) Outside the court, dozens of fans cheered, chanted slogans against Hicks and Gillett and serenaded the three board members with the a chorus of "You'll Never Walk Alone."
  • (14) We have demonstrated that both recombinant and purified IL-2 exert a direct effect on quiescent human microvascular endothelial cells in vitro, causing the cells to enter the cell cycle and proliferate (Hicks et al., 1989).
  • (15) 5.19pm BST Hicks describes a frantic round of phone calls to the Libyan government and military for intervention.
  • (16) Keith Oliver, a lawyer at the duo's solicitors Peter & Peter, said he was consulting with Hicks and Gillett on their next steps.
  • (17) The bank is seeking a ruling that Hicks and Gillett breached a contract signed when they refinanced in April, giving Broughton the power to appoint the board and effective control of the sale process.
  • (18) Lim's public release of a letter sent to the Liverpool board, as court proceedings began, could be seen to aid the argument of Hicks and Gillett.
  • (19) The company, which also owns the Hollister and Gilly Hicks lingerie brands, has been the subject of boycotts from feminist groups – for T-shirts that read "Who needs a brain when you have these?"
  • (20) This theory leads to a new "law" that is put forward as a replacement for Hick's law.