spasm vs rick
rick vs spasmspasm and rick both are nouns.
spasm is not a verb while rick is a verb.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| spasm | Yes | No | No | No |
| rick | Yes | No | Yes | No |
As nouns,
rick is a hyponym of
spasm; that is, rick is a
word with a more specific, narrower meaning than
spasm:
- spasm: a painful and involuntary muscular contraction
- rick: a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British)
Other hyponyms of spasm include
charley-horse, charley horse, graphospasm, writer's cramp, blepharospasm, crick, kink, wrick, myoclonus, opisthotonos, twitch, twitching, vellication, tenesmus, trismus.
| spasm (noun) | rick (noun) |
|---|---|
| (pathology) sudden constriction of a hollow organ (as a blood vessel) | a stack of hay |
| a painful and involuntary muscular contraction | a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) |
| spasm (verb) | rick (verb) |
|---|---|
| twist suddenly so as to sprain | |
| pile in ricks |
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