What's the difference between slicker and waterproof?

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.

Waterproof


Definition:

  • (a.) Proof against penetration or permeation by water; impervious to water; as, a waterproof garment; a waterproof roof.
  • (n.) A substance or preparation for rendering cloth, leather, etc., impervious to water.
  • (n.) Cloth made waterproof, or any article made of such cloth, or of other waterproof material, as rubber; esp., an outer garment made of such material.
  • (v. t.) To render impervious to water, as cloth, leather, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is concluded that the thickness of the waterproofing sheath is not a very sensitive variable, assuming the thickness is between 0.5 and 2.0 mm.
  • (2) Cryoscopic analysis of frozen sections provided indirect evidence for the presence of a waterproof layer limiting evaporation from living epithelial cells in dormant land snails.
  • (3) In the case of Airbnb, it’s facilitating the buy-to-let marketplace, and lets people like me – who have the assets to sweat – make a profit to cover the cost of more assets, which can then be priced accordingly to cover their own bricks and mortar (or, in my case, fuel and waterproof blacking).
  • (4) The BBC sessions version of Hey is one of my favourite ever songs and to hear that, as the sun was trying to break through, almost made me forget the fact I'd lost my waterproof and was walking about sopping wet in a glorified bin-liner.
  • (5) In the meantime, clinicians should be aware of this problem and may choose to prevent these errors by wrapping the connection with waterproof tape.
  • (6) He issues instructions home for new boots, a waterproof sheet, a lamp, field glasses and a camera.
  • (7) This material support involved allowing an acquaintance to stay in his apartment for two weeks – an acquaintance who later delivered raincoats and waterproof socks to al-Qaida.
  • (8) So while in Japan you can easily stumble across a remote-control tissue box or a battery-operated planetarium for your bathroom (by which I mean a waterproof Saturn-shaped orb that floats in the bath and projects the entire visible universe onto the ceiling), the sense of surrounding novelty has diminished.
  • (9) Below this is a very thin waterproof layer of wax and 'sclerotin' continuous with the contents of the tubular filaments, which is readily removed by adsorptive dusts.
  • (10) British mountaineer Kenton Cool was sitting in the check-in lounge at Gatwick airport last Thursday with a locked waterproof box that, if all goes according to plan, will not leave his side until he reaches Everest's summit for a 10th time this spring.
  • (11) He has kitted us out in our super-modern waterproof gear that makes us look like a family of Scandinavian traffic cops, but about which even the teenager doesn't complain.
  • (12) Let's hope he's not brought his brolly along this time, but invested in a nice waterproof jacket instead, a mac maybe.
  • (13) Waterproof footwear and clothing should be worn to minimize skin contact.
  • (14) Make sure you take a waterproof bivvy for your sleeping bag, plenty of warm layers and hot food and drink.
  • (15) It is also waterproof and would be perfect to use in hydrogen reservoirs.
  • (16) After struggling into a dry suit, I grabbed a handful of waterproof gear bags and headed down to the beach.
  • (17) Motorola is promising “all-day battery life” for the Moto E, and has fitted it with features such as Corning’s scratch-resistant Gorilla Glass 3 and P2i’s waterproof nano coating (which makes the phone splash-proof) that are found only on smartphones costing twice as much as the Moto E. As with the Moto G, Motorola will guarantee an upgrade to the next version of Android for the Moto E, something that cannot be said for most of the other smartphones in its class.
  • (18) Bedding has been constructed with a vapour-permeable waterproof fabric that is impermeable to house dust mite antigen (Der p1).
  • (19) Patrick Kingsley (@PatrickKingsley) Top priorities before the trip to Europe: change lira into euros; buy a lifejacket; waterproof your electricals.
  • (20) Try a waterproof picnic blanket, much cheaper and easy to keep clean.