nnoun.statea painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back ('rick' and 'wrick' are British)Region:BritainGreat BritainU.K.UKUnited KingdomUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Synset:kink rick wrick
Derivationally Related Form:crickrickwrick
Hypernyms:cramp muscle spasm spasm
Inherited Hypernyms:crickspasmsymptomevidenceinformationcognitionpsychological featureabstractionentity
nnoun.personEnglish biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004)Synset:Crick Francis Crick Francis Henry Compton Crick
Instance Hypernyms:biochemist
Inherited Hypernyms:crickbiochemistchemistscientistpersoncausal agentphysical entityentity
Inherited Hypernyms:crickbiochemistchemistscientistpersonorganismliving thingwholeobjectphysical entityentity
vverb.bodytwist (a body part) into a strained positionDerivationally Related Form:crick
Hypernyms:twist
Inherited Hypernyms:cricktwistturnmove
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something