Difference between Flicker and Flick

What is the difference between Flicker and Flick?

Flicker as a noun is an unsteady flash of light. while Flick as a noun is a short, quick movement, especially a brush, sweep, or flip.

Flicker

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An unsteady flash of light. A short moment.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To burn or shine unsteadily. To burn or shine with a wavering light. To keep going on and off; to appear and disappear for short moments; to flutter.

Example sentence: In teaching color, you teach people how to look something and see the tone in it and break it down to be able to paint it and reproduce that color. But then, I'm psychedelic, so I look at color differently. I like colors that are in contrast with one another, so that they flicker back and forth.

Flick

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To move (something) with a short, quick motion.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A short, quick movement, especially a brush, sweep, or flip.A motion picture; (in plural, usually preceded by "the") movie theater, cinema.A cut that lands with the point, often involving a whip of the foible of the blade to strike at a concealed target.

Example sentence: Ive got lots of different types of worry beads and when Im feeling anxious or a little bit stressed, basically I worry. So I flick through them and the more anxious... I get, the faster I do it.

We hope you now know whether to use Flicker or Flick in your sentence.

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