How do you use Crick in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like kink or rick, plus the exact meaning.
Crick in a sentence
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Crick meaning
- A painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, making it difficult to move the part affected.
- A small jackscrew.
Using Crick
- The main meaning on this page is: A painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, making it difficult to move the part affected. | A small jackscrew.
- Useful related words include: kink, rick, wrick, spasm.
- In the example corpus, crick often appears in combinations such as: and crick, francis crick, crick and.
Context around Crick
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 8 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Crick
- In this selection, "crick" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, francis, 1950s, watson, institute, 1990 and described stand out and add context to how "crick" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include crick 1990 p and the francis crick institute in. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "crick" sits close to words such as abhorrent, actuality and belted, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with crick
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Crick said no and turned away. (6 words)
Crick Road was ranked second on the list. (8 words)
Crick (1990) p. 10: Crick described himself as agnostic, with a "strong inclination towards atheism". (15 words)
Crick's access to Franklin's progress report of late 1952 is what made Crick confident that DNA was a double helix with antiparallel chains, but there were other chains of reasoning and sources of information that also led to these conclusions. (42 words)
Walter Crick, his uncle, lived in a small house on the south side of Abington Avenue; he had a shed at the bottom of his little garden where he taught Crick to blow glass, do chemical experiments and to make photographic prints. (42 words)
Making an appeal for the mother to come forward, Mr Crick said: ‘We are extremely concerned for her welfare as she would have been through a traumatic ordeal and will be in need of immediate medical attention following the birth. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
Crick (1990) p. 10: Crick described himself as agnostic, with a "strong inclination towards atheism".
Crick (1990) p. 25 Crick had the very optimistic view that life would very soon be created in a test tube.
Crick predicted that such adaptor molecules might exist as the links between codons and amino acids During the mid-to-late 1950s Crick was very much intellectually engaged in sorting out the mystery of how proteins are synthesized.
Crick's access to Franklin's progress report of late 1952 is what made Crick confident that DNA was a double helix with antiparallel chains, but there were other chains of reasoning and sources of information that also led to these conclusions.
The DNA double helix structure proposed by Watson and Crick was based upon "Watson-Crick" bonds between the four bases most frequently found in DNA (A, C, T, G) and RNA (A, C, U, G).
Walter Crick, his uncle, lived in a small house on the south side of Abington Avenue; he had a shed at the bottom of his little garden where he taught Crick to blow glass, do chemical experiments and to make photographic prints.
Dr Mian, who is now researching stem cells for the Francis Crick Institute, is set for a trial at Central London County Court on a date to be fixed.
Here is American James Watson talking about the discovery, for which he won a Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1962 along with co-discoverer Francis Crick, a British physicist.
It was Dr. Franklin who made it possible for Francis Crick and James Watkins to delineate the structure of DNA.
James Watson and Francis Crick are famous for having first worked out the structure of DNA.
The study "recognises that cancer is not static and the way we treat patients shouldn't be either," said lead researcher Professor Charles Swanton from UCL Cancer Institute, the Francis Crick Institute and Cancer Research UK.
Yet in Kathleen's case it was undermined by the findings of Professor Carola Vinuesa, a genetics expert at the Francis Crick Institute in London.
Crick added: 'Such a programme would be unthinkable today, and Gateshead probably marked the high point of relations between and politicians.
Crick Road was ranked second on the list.
Making an appeal for the mother to come forward, Mr Crick said: ‘We are extremely concerned for her welfare as she would have been through a traumatic ordeal and will be in need of immediate medical attention following the birth.
That is a view backed by Dr Lucia Prieto Godino, a group leader in brain research at the Francis Crick Institute in London, who is independent of the research team.
The Met Police released an appeal asking for the mum to come forward before Chief Superintendent Simon Crick, local policing commander for north-east London, held a press conference in Newham.
Watson (who, it’s worth noting, dismissed the IVF team’s work as “infanticide”) and Crick did not credit Franklin’s contributions, especially after she died in 1962, shortly before they won their Nobel Prize.
The Francis Crick institute today announced it has started testing NHS staff from University College London Hospitals and aims to ramp up to 500 per day by next week and expand to other hospitals in the capital.
Crick said no and turned away.
Common combinations with crick
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: