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Meaning of "slicken" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SLICKEN

slicken  [ˈslɪkən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SLICKEN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Slicken is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb slicken in English.

WHAT DOES SLICKEN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of slicken in the English dictionary

The definition of slicken in the dictionary is to make smooth.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SLICKEN

PRESENT

Present
I slicken
you slicken
he/she/it slickens
we slicken
you slicken
they slicken
Present continuous
I am slickening
you are slickening
he/she/it is slickening
we are slickening
you are slickening
they are slickening
Present perfect
I have slickened
you have slickened
he/she/it has slickened
we have slickened
you have slickened
they have slickened
Present perfect continuous
I have been slickening
you have been slickening
he/she/it has been slickening
we have been slickening
you have been slickening
they have been slickening
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I slickened
you slickened
he/she/it slickened
we slickened
you slickened
they slickened
Past continuous
I was slickening
you were slickening
he/she/it was slickening
we were slickening
you were slickening
they were slickening
Past perfect
I had slickened
you had slickened
he/she/it had slickened
we had slickened
you had slickened
they had slickened
Past perfect continuous
I had been slickening
you had been slickening
he/she/it had been slickening
we had been slickening
you had been slickening
they had been slickening
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will slicken
you will slicken
he/she/it will slicken
we will slicken
you will slicken
they will slicken
Future continuous
I will be slickening
you will be slickening
he/she/it will be slickening
we will be slickening
you will be slickening
they will be slickening
Future perfect
I will have slickened
you will have slickened
he/she/it will have slickened
we will have slickened
you will have slickened
they will have slickened
Future perfect continuous
I will have been slickening
you will have been slickening
he/she/it will have been slickening
we will have been slickening
you will have been slickening
they will have been slickening
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would slicken
you would slicken
he/she/it would slicken
we would slicken
you would slicken
they would slicken
Conditional continuous
I would be slickening
you would be slickening
he/she/it would be slickening
we would be slickening
you would be slickening
they would be slickening
Conditional perfect
I would have slicken
you would have slicken
he/she/it would have slicken
we would have slicken
you would have slicken
they would have slicken
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been slickening
you would have been slickening
he/she/it would have been slickening
we would have been slickening
you would have been slickening
they would have been slickening
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you slicken
we let´s slicken
you slicken
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to slicken
Past participle
slickened
Present Participle
slickening
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SLICKEN


African
ˈæfrɪkən
American
əˈmɛrɪkən
Anglican
ˈæŋɡlɪkən
antirepublican
ˌæntɪrɪˈpʌblɪkən
basilican
bəˈsɪlɪkən
catholicon
kəˈθɒlɪkən
ferrosilicon
ˌfɛrəʊˈsɪlɪkən
Gallican
ˈɡælɪkən
helicon
ˈhɛlɪkən
hurricane
ˈhʌrɪkən
Mexican
ˈmɛksɪkən
Millikan
ˈmɪlɪkən
Mulliken
ˈmʌlɪkən
Oerlikon
ˈɜːlɪkən
pelican
ˈpɛlɪkən
publican
ˈpʌblɪkən
republican
rɪˈpʌblɪkən
silicon
ˈsɪlɪkən
spellican
ˈspɛlɪkən
spillikin
ˈspɛlɪkən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SLICKEN

slice
slice bar
sliceable
sliced bread
slicer
slick
slickener
slickenside
slickensided
slicker
slickered
slickly
slickness
slickrock
slickster
slickstone
slid
slidable
slidder
sliddery

WORDS THAT END LIKE SLICKEN

bricken
chicken
conscience-stricken
coronation chicken
Digby chicken
drucken
free-range chicken
grief-stricken
horror-stricken
like a headless chicken
mobile phone chicken
no chicken
panic-stricken
poverty-stricken
prairie chicken
quicken
sicken
spring chicken
stricken
terror-stricken
thicken

Synonyms and antonyms of slicken in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «slicken» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SLICKEN

Find out the translation of slicken to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of slicken from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «slicken» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

slicken
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

slicken
570 millions of speakers

English

slicken
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

slicken
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

slicken
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

slicken
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

slicken
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

slicken
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

slicken
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Slaid
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

slicken
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

slicken
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

slicken
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Slamet
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

slicken
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

slicken
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सडपातळ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

slicken
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

slicken
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

slicken
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

slicken
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

slicken
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

slicken
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

slicken
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

slicken
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

slicken
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of slicken

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SLICKEN»

The term «slicken» is used very little and occupies the 163.099 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SLICKEN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «slicken» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «slicken» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about slicken

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SLICKEN»

Discover the use of slicken in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to slicken and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
American Journal of Science: An International Earth Science ...
slicken-sided in this way, and which if wholly covered b this kind of marking could scarcely have been recognized. {have figured bodies of this kind in figs. 126 and- 231 of 111 report on the Devonian and Upper Silurian plants, believing t em, ...
‎1873
2
The American Journal of Science
slicken-sided in this way, and which if wholly covered by this kind of marking could scarcely have been recognized. I have figured bodies of this kind in figs. 126 and 231 of my report on the Devonian and Upper Silurian plants, believing them, ...
‎1873
3
The American Journal of Science and Arts
slicken-sided in this way, and which if wholly covered by this kind of marking could scarcely have been recognized. I have figured bodies of this kind in figs. 126 and 231 of my report on the Devonian and Upper Silurian plants, believing them, ...
‎1873
4
Jazz Age: People and Perspectives
Between 1915 and 1924, Elgin leased space to the Van Slicken Speedometer Company and Stewart-Warner Corporation, which acquired Van Slicken in 1917 based on Van Slicken's contracts with automakers like Cadillac and Oldsmobile.
Mitchell Newton-Matza, 2009
5
Microtectonics
These structures are also known as slickenfibres in slicken- fibre veins. (Figs. 6.8, 6.9; Sect. 5.2.2). Slickenfibre veins commonly contain curved fibres parallel to the plane of the slickenside (Ramsay and Huber 1983). As for curved fibres in ...
Cees W. Passchier, Rudolph A. J. Trouw, 2005
6
Earthquake-Induced Landslides: Proceedings of the ...
On the higher portion of the sliding surface, a large number of slicken lines, which was directed approximately to the dip of the ... It means that these slicken lines had evidently occurred as a bedding-plane slip during the past folding : tectonic ...
Keizo Ugai, Hiroshi Yagi, Akihiko Wakai, 2012
7
Medicus-magus, a poem
In this vein was found a white mineral powder which gave out a hissing sound till it became exhausted, and the external air came in contact with a mineral called a Slicken ; the rocks on each side then opened, and closed again with a ...
Richard Furness, 1836
8
Practical Tunnel Construction
E. Rough or irregular, planar 1.5 F. Smooth, planar 1.0 G. Slicken sided, planar 0.5 2. Jr = 0.5 can be used for planar, slicken sided joints having lineations, provided that the lineations are oriented for minimum strength. c. No Rock Wall Contact ...
Gary B. Hemphill, 2012
9
Exhumation Associated with Continental Strike-slip Fault Systems
Great circles are fault planes; points are slicken- lines; contours constructed by the Kamb method and indicate concentration of slickenline orientations (contour interval 2). Riedel shears in the fault zones (cf. Fig. 9) indicate normal slip ...
Alison B. Till, 2007
10
Foundations of Structural Geology
The grooves or striations indicating the direction of relative movement of the fault are called slickenside striations or slicken- lines (Figure 2.6A). Slickenfibres are linear structures which are formed by the growth of fibrous minerals such as ...
R. G. Park, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SLICKEN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term slicken is used in the context of the following news items.
1
EXCLUSIVE: Leslie Grace Talks "Lovin', el Musical de McDonald's"
They taught me how to slicken-up my moves. Also, the choreographer and the producer were great! They were so cooperative and patient with me while I ... «Latina, Jul 15»
2
Novak Djokovic takes the fifth against Kevin Anderson
But it was just long enough to get moisture on the grass to slicken the surface for big serves. Just what Djokovic didn't need. When they returned, Djokovic ... «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
3
Pillar of Eternity's v1.03 Update Coming Soon, Patch Notes Revealed
Slicken spell is now a single hit AoE. Chill Fog is now a friend or foe spell. Curse of Blackened Sight is now foe only. Changed reload speed multiplier from 2 to ... «Game Revolution, Apr 15»
4
Spring Psych! Snow, Rain Slicken Parts of NY, NJ; Black Ice …
Nearly two weeks into spring, winter-weary tri-state residents are still hoping for that first sustained period of seasonably warm, pleasant weather: It won't start ... «NBC New York, Apr 15»
5
Ice storm prompts Baltimore County schools to close early
Baltimore County public schools closed two hours early today in anticipation of an ice storm expected to slicken roads Tuesday afternoon as rush hour begins. «Baltimore Sun, Mar 15»
6
Wintry mix may slicken roads on Super Bowl Sunday; most areas …
10:15 p.m. update: Models have shifted north with the storm track today meaning perhaps even somewhat less snow and ice than we discuss and illustrate ... «Washington Post, Jan 15»
7
St. George man, 18, dies in scooter crash near I-15
Police say Jones was headed east on 700 south on a rain-slicken underpass beneath Interstate 15 when he apparently lost control and crashed. Officer Derek ... «Daily Herald, Jan 15»
8
Ice, Sleet May Slicken Parts of South, Ohio Valley, East Beginning …
Ice fog is one of the culprits when a sliding truck veers into Jamie's lane! Driving smart is the key to staying alive! Follow all the action on the road with Highway ... «The Weather Channel, Jan 15»
9
Passenger injured in rain-slickened crash receives $300000 …
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A West Brighton man, badly injured four years ago in a vehicular crash on a rain-slickened Concord street, has settled his lawsuit for ... «Staten Island Advance - SILive.com, Nov 14»
10
Hybrid Yoga: True To Form Or Undermining The Practice
The person who leaves a yoga fitness style class will likely leave sweat-slicken and energized, with their endorphins in a frenzy. But the person who leaves a ... «Neon Tommy, Sep 14»

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