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Definition: Crick |
CrickNoun1. A painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British). 2. English biochemist who helped discover the helical structure of DNA (born in 1916). Verb1. Twist the head into a strained position. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "crick" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | See:loose. (references) |
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Synonyms: CrickSynonyms: rick (n), wrick (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Physical Pain | Spasm, cramp; nightmare, ephialtes; crick, stitch; thrill, convulsion, throe; throb. (agitation); pang; colic; kink. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Crick |
| Specialty definitions using "crick": double helix. (references) |
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Screenplays | Oy! Ten thousand years can give you such a crick in the neck! (Aladdin; writing credit: Roger Allers; Ron Clements) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Shows photo of Crick and Watson and their lifesize "Double Helix" model of DNA. Credit: Anthony Barrington Brown (photographer). |
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| "Crick" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 91.74% of the time. "Crick" is used about 109 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 91.74% | 100 | 32,668 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.59% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.83% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.92% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.92% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 109 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "crick" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Crick | Last name | 1,000 | 10,245 |
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Expressions using "crick": a crick in one's neck ♦ a crick in the neck ♦ crick in one's neck ♦ crick in the back ♦ crick in the neck ♦ crick one's back ♦ crick one's neck ♦ Francis Crick ♦ Francis Henry Compton Crick. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "crick": crick-crick, Crick-harper-raper. | |
Ending with "crick": Watson-crick. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
crick | 65 |
watson and crick | 64 |
francis crick | 53 |
crick in neck | 17 |
francis crick and james watson | 13 |
crick level | 12 |
crick neck | 7 |
crick dna watson | 6 |
crick debbie | 6 |
crick info | 6 |
crick watson y | 6 |
crick nancy | 3 |
biography crick francis | 3 |
crick urabon | 3 |
compton crick francis harry | 3 |
camera crick | 2 |
crick e watson | 2 |
crick double helix watson | 2 |
crick dna point power | 2 |
crick en watson | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "crick"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | азтягане, азтягам. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Verrenken (dislocate, luxate, put out, strain, to crick, to dislocate, wrench). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Νευροκαβαλίκεμα, Στραβολαίμιασμα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szaggatás (joint gout), rándulás (hitch, jerk, sprain, strain, twitch, wrick). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kejang (convulse, convulsion, cramp, spasm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Crampo (cramp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 寝違える (to sleep in an awkward position and wake with a crick in one's neck). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ねちがえる (to sleep in an awkward position and wake with a crick in one's neck). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sthangey, feh-chrappey, cassey mwaanalagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | kink, forstrekke. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ickcray cãibra (cramp), torcicolo (kink, stiff neck, torticollis, wryneck), provocar torcicolo ou cãimbra. (various references) Entorsã (sprain, twist, wrench), Înţepeni, Înţepenealã. (various references) астянуть Мышцу, астяжение Мышц. (various references) ukočenost (numbness, stiffness, stupor, torpidity, torpor), ukočen vrat. (various references) Tortícolis (stiff neck, torticollis), Darse Una Tortícolis. (various references) sendrag i nacken (crick in the neck), ryggont (crick in the back). (various references) Tutulma (attack, being held, eclipse, fastening, go, immersion, kink, popularity), Boyun Tutulması (crick in one's neck, stiff neck), Adale Kasılması (charley horse). (various references) Зойкати, Стрекотати, озтягти М'яз, озтягнення М'язів. (various references) tật vẹo cổ, tật ngay sống lưng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "crick": cricked, cricket, cricketed, cricketer, cricketers, cricketing, crickets, crickey, cricking, cricks. (additional references) | |
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"Crick" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acrack, carico, Carnick, Carricke, cic, Cicek, cick, cirk, ckick, cracka, cracky, craic, craik, crc, crecca, creck, creco, creic, crickl, Crik, crike, crink, crix, crnic, croci, Crocky, crrec, crrick, cruck, crusk, csic, cyric, Druick, frick, kirrick, krack, Krick, Kricka, Rcyc, shrick. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "crick" (pronounced kri"k) |
| 3 | -r i" k | brick, prick, Rick, Strick, trick. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-i-k-r" | |
-1 letter: rick. | |
-2 letters: ick, irk, kir. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-i-k-r" | |
+1 letter: cricks. | |
+2 letters: carsick, clicker, cockier, cricked, cricket, crickey. | |
+3 letters: aircheck, chickory, clickers, cracking, crickets, cricking, crocking, gimcrack, princock, rickrack. | |
+4 letters: airchecks, anticrack, checkrein, chickaree, cockering, crabstick, crackings, cracklier, crackling, cricketed, cricketer, gimcracks, picnicker, princocks, raincheck, recocking, rickracks, slickrock, wisecrack. | |
+5 letters: carjacking, checkering, checkreins, chickarees, chickories, cockatrice, crabsticks, crackbrain, crackliest, cracklings, cricketers, cricketing, crockeries, peacockier, picnickers, rainchecks, rechecking, slickrocks, wisecracks. | |
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