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Meanings of flick in English
A form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
Synonyms
Examples for "leaf"
Examples for "leaf"
1
However, field evidence for such effect of conspecific leaf litter remains absent.
2
That red rose in the snow- Ihavethe leaf in my breviary.
3
The bambu set up is the mast; the leaf is the sail.
4
Late last year, Dotcom claimed he had turned over a new leaf.
5
Perhaps it's simply a change in leaf physiology linked to cooling temperatures.
1
Different this time: left thumb to right toe, right thumb to left.
2
Likewise, the left thumb shall be bound to the right great toe.
3
I think the rule of thumb is to wait for 10 years.
4
The rule of thumb is to board 30 minutes prior to departure.
5
Keep the thumb erect; raise the first finger of the left hand.
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That'd be misleading, unnecessarily flip, and would result in missing body parts.
2
And if you really need to flip paper pages on your calendar?
3
Another indicator is sometimes startling flip-flops on labor law issues, experts said.
4
We need to flip those ratios to come back a second season.
5
This might not be the best time to flip that switch, however.
1
I was startled; Olympos was usually impossible to shock or even ruffle.
2
He could see the dull ruffle of the water under the wind.
3
Such endeavours appeared to ruffle Belvedere, and certainly disrupted any game plan.
4
The second photograph shows a Galliano ruffle dress hanging on a stand.
5
His tempers were the ruffle of a passing breeze upon deep water.
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The swooning riff on Kinder Blumenis a work of great, intricate beauty.
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It was called New Rose and its riff has never been bettered.
3
The first thing that happened was the riff and off I went.
4
Nikki just let them riff and walked the rest of the apartment.
5
Brand-name footballers riff that gets desperate very quickly indeed: a top ten.
1
A little riffle as of waiting fluttered through the grasses and leaves.
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As I riffle though my wallet, I see Canada went for cosy.
3
She walked over to a bookshelf and began to riffle through journals.
4
One had come apart in our first brush with a little riffle.
5
Even thus we only just made the riffle in more than one case.
Usage of flick in English
1
Love, the new Michael Haneke flick, will almost certainly be on display.
2
A flick of motion ahead and to the left caught his attention.
3
It was good enough that we almost enjoyed our test flick, Eragon.
4
The shopkeeper waved the question away with a flick of his hand.
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Most of us flick absentmindedly between Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, for example.
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They can just flick a switch and turn it on, Carter said.
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As featured in Eden, the new flick about the French Touch era.
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Padilha goes on to say that his flick hopes to address that.
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His advice aside, the script and cast present an enjoyable chick flick.
10
Oceans 8 is the first all-female flick that makes crime look glamorous.
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So flick over to page 32 of the prospectus for the answer.
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As she was leaving I heard her flick off the light switch.
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Sure, there's a bit of Frankenstein-esque horror flick material in all this.
14
The blade must've given her no more than a harsh, stinging flick.
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But I see no way that it counts as a horror flick.
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Natalie used a sidearmed toss to flick it onto the canopied bed.
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Flick through the time
Flick across language varieties
Australia
Common
Ireland
Common
South Africa
Common
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