What's the difference between hick and lick?

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.

Lick


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To draw or pass the tongue over; as, a dog licks his master's hand.
  • (v. t.) To lap; to take in with the tongue; as, a dog or cat licks milk.
  • (v.) A stroke of the tongue in licking.
  • (v.) A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts like a tongue; as, to put on colors with a lick of the brush. Also, a small quantity of any substance so applied.
  • (v.) A place where salt is found on the surface of the earth, to which wild animals resort to lick it up; -- often, but not always, near salt springs.
  • (v. t.) To strike with repeated blows for punishment; to flog; to whip or conquer, as in a pugilistic encounter.
  • (n.) A slap; a quick stroke.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He's finding solace, fleeting and fragmentary, and every springy guitar lick is its own benediction," Chinen wrote.
  • (2) the does had been grazing on lucerne from the time of mating and received a free-choice lick, which included iodine.
  • (3) Southampton, with injuries and defeats to consider, were left licking their wounds.
  • (4) Combined treatment with quinpirole and a D-1 agonist was followed by dose-dependent licking and occasional biting behaviour.
  • (5) injection of phenylbenzoquinone, (6) forepaw licking and jump latencies on a hot plate.
  • (6) The spindle units were classified into 4 types: 5 units showed rhythmical activity related only to the jaw opening phase during both licking and chewing, 8 units discharged at jaw opening phase during licking, but both at jaw opening and jaw closing phases during eating, 2 units increased phasic activity at jaw opening phase during licking, but increased tonically independent of jaw movements during eating, and the remaining 3 units responded only at jaw closing phase both in licking and eating behavior.
  • (7) Electrical stimulation of the hypothalamic centres through implanted electrodes has shown that the amplitude of evoked responses and the impairment of licking increases, in proportion to the delay between lick onset and stimulus application.
  • (8) It has been shown that under all types of stimulation the latent periods (LP) of nociceptive reactions of paw licking and tail flick were significantly increased, as compared to baseline level, thus suggesting suppression of the pain sensitivity.
  • (9) The time to hand over the reins came and went, Keating challenged and lost, before heading to the backbench to lick his wounds and shore up the factional numbers needed for a successful spill.
  • (10) A video from the zoo showed Juxiao sitting in the corner of a room as she delivered her cubs for four hours and licking them after they were born.
  • (11) Of course, a finer measurement of movements, such as lick rate, may reveal a significant difference that would correlate with the metabolic change.
  • (12) They were trained to respond on a tongue-operated solenoid-driven drinking device that delivered 0.005 ml of a glucose and saccharin solution (G + S) per lick.
  • (13) licking, scratching, grooming, head and limb movements), a reaction termed immobility.
  • (14) In contrast, after weaning they showed a significant increment in the duration of face-washing, head-washing, fur licking and body-scratching.
  • (15) In high doses all compounds reduced the licking activity, but a low dose of APEC (1 microM) injected together with the formalin solution had an algesic effect.
  • (16) The selection for licking in males had no discernible effect on female sexual activity.
  • (17) Apomorphine-induced gnawing and licking but not sniffing were attenuated in rats with GP lesions.
  • (18) In control rats, SKF 38393 enhanced the stereotyped responses induced by quinpirole, converting lower-level stereotypies (sniffing and rearing) to more intense oral behaviors (licking and gnawing).
  • (19) And where, as a general rule, do we stand on licking sticks?
  • (20) The time spent licking the bottles during water omission and the time spent drinking during a subsequent 5-min drinking session (water available) were recorded.

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