slickensとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

slickens

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of slicken

語源 2

Ultimately a reference to the slimy, slick nature of the material. Compare slicken (“smooth”, adjective), slick (noun).

名詞

slickens

1. (originally US dialectal) Fine, harmful, and (when wet) slimy pulverized rock, a waste product (pollution) produced by hydraulic mining and quartz milling, which can silt up rivers and accumulate on soil downstream of such activities.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:slickens.

使用する際の注意点

• Sometimes treated as a singular (this slickens is, sometimes even a slickens), sometimes a plural (these slickens are).

参照

“slickens”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• snickles, Nickless, Lesnicks