About The Word Crick
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Crick
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What's The Definition Of Crick?
[n] English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (born in 1916)
[n] a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) [v] twist the head into a strained position Synonyms | Synonyms for Crick: Francis Crick | Francis Henry Compton Crick | rick | wrick Related Terms | Find terms related to Crick: acute pain | bite | boring pain | branch | brook | charley horse | chirk | chirking | chirp | chirrup | cramp | cramps | creak | darting pain | fulgurant pain | gill | girdle pain | gnawing | griping | hitch | jumping pain | kink | lancinating pain | nip | pang | paroxysm | pinch | prick | race | rivulet | run | runnel | seizure | sharp pain | shoot | shooting | shooting pain | spasm | stab | stabbing pain | stitch | stream | stridulate | stridulation | thrill | throes | tormen | tweak | twinge | twitch | wrench See Also | biochemist | cramp | muscle spasm | spasm | strain | tense | tense up Crick In Webster's Dictionary \Crick\ (kr[i^]k), n. [See {Creak}.]
The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it. [Obs.]
--Johnson.
\Crick\, n. [The same as creek a bending, twisting. See {Creek}, {Crook}.] 1. A painful, spasmodic affection of the muscles of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, rendering it difficult to move the part. To those also that, with a crick or cramp, have thei necks drawn backward. --Holland. 2. [Cf. F. cric.] A small jackscrew. --Knight. |
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