What's the difference between slicken and slicker?
Slicken
Definition:
(a.) Sleek; smooth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Residents were preparing for a storm that threatened to slicken highways, freeze power lines – and leave them stranded through the weekend.
Slicker
Definition:
(n.) That which makes smooth or sleek.
(n.) A kind of burnisher for leather.
(n.) A curved tool for smoothing the surfaces of a mold after the withdrawal of the pattern.
(n.) A waterproof coat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Greggs on a roll The most important City news of last week was, of course, provided by Jake Gyllenhaal , the film actor who made his name in some critically acclaimed cowboy movie ( City Slickers ?).
(2) • Doubles from $113 B&B, no phone, ventanasalmarcozumel.com Fusion, Playa del Carmen Facebook Twitter Pinterest Years ago, most of Playa’s hippie beach bars and hostels converted to slicker, louder operations.
(3) Some believe that officials are seeking to protect state broadcaster CCTV as it loses viewers to slicker, livelier provincial upstarts such as Hunan and Jiangsu Television.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest 2013’s Bad Motherfucker was bigger, nastier and slicker, featuring breasts, swearing, and a German shepherd hurled through a window.
(5) If Algieri’s right hand could tag Khan consistently, what havoc might the infinitely slicker welterweight champ wreak?
(6) I was relatively new to standup, and because it’s a heavily edited TV gig, it makes me look a bit slicker than I am.
(7) Located near all the tourist sites of Hollywood Boulevard, this is slightly more grown up and slicker than the Magic Castle Hotel.
(8) If you watch someone who's really good at doing these sorts of shows, they're much slicker."
(9) Pitch Perfect would give you an all male a cappella team struggling to defeat a slicker, all-female team – in terms of casting, and even in terms of substantial parts, it would be mostly a wash.
(10) Photograph: Popperfoto Some social media reports are faster and slicker than traditional news outlets, which often react to rather than report news, amplifying misinformation.
(11) I wanted the equivalent of the city slickers, from a very different world, turning up in Deadwood .
(12) I have yet to be persuaded there will be any truly new games or any new kinds of interaction from Sony or Microsoft, the best I think we can hope for is more of the same, only slicker, and with a bigger carbon footprint.
(13) Presumably there is a marketing department there now, because there are many shops, all far slicker than Help Poland, including one called Heritage Brides.
(14) The left, more influential then than in recent years, hated the results, but the then Labour leader Neil Kinnock, desperate for power, supported the new, slicker, more voter-friendly approach to political communications.
(15) To follow that logic, Miliband will need to hug a pinstriped City slicker waving a Coutts card to be seen as anywhere near the centre ground.
(16) There have been shows about gay life and the lives of gay men, before: Russell T Davies made history with Channel 4's Queer as Folk, and a slicker US version ran for five seasons.
(17) Sharper, slicker, hungrier and consistently half a yard quicker than West Ham during the first 45 minutes, Sunderland appeared to have undergone a most extraordinary makeover.
(18) The hope is that slicker, more convenient post offices will attract a greater number of small business owners and ordinary shoppers, and help boost sales of financial services such as current accounts, insurance and mortgages.
(19) Zinio (free, paid-for content) similarly displays glossy magazines and has much the same functionality but with a slicker interface; crucially, it turns printed weblinks into interactive ones.
(20) By the end, with Scott Parker incensed by John Mikel Obi's petulant kick, it was easy to forget that Chelsea had not been the slicker of these sides for long periods.