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slick

1. a chisel or other tool used for smoothing or polishing a surface
2. the tyre of a racing car that has worn treads
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slick

[slik]
(oceanography)
Area in which capillary waves are absent or suppressed.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

SLC

(1) (Subscriber Loop Carrier) Lucent's designation for its digital loop carrier (DLC) products. See digital loop carrier. See also 386SLC.

(2) (Single Level Cell) A flash memory technology that stores one bit per cell. Contrast with MLC.
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I finally had Slick loaded up in my truck and it was clear he was not accustomed to riding in the front seat, nor was he comfortable with old plastic spit bottles and shotgun hulls on my floorboard touching his fancy boots.
Iran demands that the Indian tanker's insurer pay for the oil slick, while India says Iran has no right to detain the ship--and its 35 Indian crewmen--and must release them immediately.
Bahrain is monitoring the situation after it received a satellite view of the oil slick and could increase safety measures depending on an investigation, said Supreme Council for Environment pollution control from the source unit head Hanan Haidar.
A heavy oil slick stretched nearly four kilometres along the two areas and a top official of the Fujairah Fishermen Association says it has gone even to a depth of one kilometre, making it a serious spill.
The California attorney's office said in a statement that the suspects are alleged to have bought shares in publicly traded business then pumped up the share price with "slick market campaigns, slick press releases, payments to stock prompters and cross trading," which involved buying and selling shares amongst themselves.
He has not performed live since November 2006 and Slick said: "Obviously, we want him to.
And Slick admitted it was a "big if" whether he would play live again.
Launched in November 2012, Ok Slick Clothing offers a variety of styles and flavors of designer T-shirts.
Slick and Mighty from the famous Harlem Globetrotters visited children at Carr Hill Primary in Gateshead.
The Woods Hole researchers sampled water from five sites inside the surface slick and seven more upwind.
"It all started yesterday when Slick called me and said he had a great idea for hunting deer on Pop Turner's farm.
Villagers living along the coast showed off their palms or soles smeared with oil as photographers and reporters arrived in hordes in the affected areas to report the slick.
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