What's the difference between sicker and snicker?

Sicker


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To percolate, trickle, or ooze, as water through a crack.
  • (a.) Alt. of Siker
  • (adv.) Alt. of Siker

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But she noticed Mohamed getting smaller and sicker, until she eventually brought him to the centre, where the nuns give him F-75 – an enriched formula adapted for malnourished children, fortified porridge, plumpy nut, and soup with meat and fish.
  • (2) As a generalization, younger, more rehabilitatable diabetics have been offered a kidney transplant, while older, often sicker diabetics have been relegated to CAPD, leaving most diabetics in the subset managed by maintenance hemodialysis.
  • (3) Second, there was a 27% increase in the mortality rate of residents living in the nursing home for 1 to 5 years suggesting that the population had become sicker between 1982 and 1985.
  • (4) This can lead to what some refer to as a “death spiral” – or a collapse of a local exchange in a place where the insurance pool keeps getting smaller, sicker and more expensive.
  • (5) It is clear from analyzing the patient profile of this subset of patients from large clinical reviews that in general they are older and sicker and have a higher incidence of cardiovascular risk factors representing more extensive atherosclerosis.
  • (6) Those payments were established by Obamacare to cover patients that turned out to be sicker than predicted.
  • (7) He is critically ill, a good deal sicker than our previous patients, and perhaps sicker than any patient that has been transported from west Africa ,” Wilson said earlier.
  • (8) Regression and correlation analysis of psychopathological and EP measurements in hyperkinetic children revealed the following findings: the shorter the latencies and the higher the amplitudes, the sicker was the child.
  • (9) Mothers of sicker infants, those who had claimed difficulties with NICU staff, and those who felt less attached to their infant more often described painful reminders of this crisis.
  • (10) Cost containment efforts which have shifted significant portions of the inpatient population to ambulatory areas have resulted in an inpatient population which is sicker and more procedure-intensive.
  • (11) In short, they say, "The poor and unemployed get sicker quicker."
  • (12) Such findings can lead to the conclusion that women are the "sicker sex" in terms of objective health status.
  • (13) In addition, these patients were sicker on initial unit discharge as manifested by higher heart and respiratory rates and lower hematocrit values.
  • (14) Just after the turn of the 20th century, a few internships were begun by hospitals in Seattle and Spokane to help with the care of their sicker patients in the tradition of Eastern teaching hospitals.
  • (15) Thus, the difference between the original treatment groups remained, despite that treatment with enalapril was made available to all surviving patients and that those in the group with enalapril were sicker at baseline than those in the group with placebo.
  • (16) If you make it harder to go to the doctor, they just get sicker and it costs more.” Both Turnbull and Shorten committed not to privatise Australia Post.
  • (17) I just kept getting sicker and sicker and I really wasn’t able to see a doctor until I got the insurance.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Susan Martin: ‘I just kept getting sicker and sicker and I wasn’t able to see a doctor until I got the insurance.’ Photograph: Courtesy of Susan Martin Once she was able to see a doctor, Martin was diagnosed with Lyme disease and two other tick-borne diseases.
  • (18) Compared to normative data published on the first four devices, the combined patients were far 'sicker' in nearly all comparisons (P less than or equal to 0.01).
  • (19) The results are consistent with previous research on differences between disciplines and with the flight of psychiatrists from CMHCs but cast doubt on the hypothesis that psychiatrists see sicker patients than psychologists see because of differences in reimbursement between the two disciplines.
  • (20) Patients with MCS show numerous physiological and biochemical abnormalities and are generally sicker than a control group of allergic patients.

Snicker


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To laugh slyly; to laugh in one's sleeve.
  • (v. i.) To laugh with audible catches of voice, as when persons attempt to suppress loud laughter.
  • (n.) A half suppressed, broken laugh.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He said: "A frothy pint of ale and a Snickers from the fridge."
  • (2) To butcher TS Eliot: I have seen the mercury of my thermometer flicker, And I have seen the eternal footman hold my sheets drenched in sweat at 3am, and snicker, And in short, I was too hot.
  • (3) Snickers featuring Willem Dafoe Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nothing makes me want to grab a candy bar more than the nightmare image of Willem Dafoe dressed like Marilyn Monroe.
  • (4) However, the ASA did not receive complaints about their Snickers-related tweets.
  • (5) More than once I catch her throwing winning glances at the massed ranks of newspaper sketch writers – they're all here, sniffing the air for jokes – and she does an awful lot of snickering behind her hand, something that makes her seem complacent and a little rude (especially given Nye's exquisitely courtly manner).
  • (6) The Snickers campaign also included celebrities such as Sir Ian Botham and former X Factor contestant Cher Lloyd.
  • (7) And when that happens, some of the iPhone users who snicker today at phablets will be trumpeting the virtues of Apple's latest products, and they'll be exclaiming how innovative it all is.
  • (8) They inherited the maker of Mars and Snickers bars in 1999 when their father died.
  • (9) The final tweet, which was accompanied by a photo of the celebrities holding a snickers bar, used the strapline "you're not you when you're hungry" and the #spon suffix, short for "sponsored" tweet.
  • (10) Opal Fruits became Starburst, Marathon became Snickers, and Treets became M&Ms.
  • (11) The campaign by Snickers paid Katie Price and Rio Ferdinand to tweet about the chocolate bar.
  • (12) I was so happy, I handed out all the sweets from my bag; the guards were eating Snickers and Bounty bars.
  • (13) I stood by fighting tears while three officers looked over the auction printouts I brought and snickered.
  • (14) Too often attempts at such serious study is met with a snicker and little or no funding is forthcoming.
  • (15) The English-language Buenos Aires Herald, however, pointed out that "the snickering about the President's mental health comes at a time [when] she is perceived by much of the public, including those who oppose her, as having shown tremendous strength immediately after her husband's death."
  • (16) The downside is that I have feet like an owl's talons and so I spend the whole 30 minutes of the treatment suspecting that the poor person who is forced to paint my toes is snickering with her colleagues in code about my talons.
  • (17) Hence the household cleaning product Jif became Cif and Marathon chocolate bars became Snickers in the UK.
  • (18) The men in the commentary box snickered, calling the cricketer “amorous” and describing the journalist as scurrying off “with bright red cheeks” .
  • (19) It also mentioned @snickersUK , the official Snickers Twitter account.
  • (20) The Advertising Standards Authority , which dealt with its first Twitter investigation in March over a Snickers campaign using Katie Price and Rio Ferdinand, received a complaint that it was not clear the footballers' tweets were advertising.