crick
Speech parts
1. crick - Noun
2. crick - Verb
3. Crick - Proper noun
Meaning
The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it.
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.
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Examples
Rather than believe that Watson and Crick made the DNA structure, I would rather stress that the structure made Watson and Crick.
Perhaps, as my former colleague Francis Crick suggested, no one should be thought alive until about three days after birth.
In the words of the late Francis Crick...You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. (13)
I have to concentrate more intently when people speak. I always have to position myself on their right side so that I can hear out of my left ear. I sometimes get a crick in my neck from listening. But I don't there's too much else.
Watson: But legalities aside, I think we must reevaluate our basic assumptions about the meaning of life. Perhaps, as my former colleague Francis Crick suggested, no one should be thought alive until about three days after birth.
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