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# sleek

«sleek» in Mova's school dictionary: **Smooth, shiny and healthy-looking** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (sleek, sleeker, sleekest); verb (sleek, sleeks, sleeked, sleeking – rare)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (of hair or fur) Smooth, shiny and healthy-looking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleek/#m1)

2) (of shapes, cars, boats) Having a smooth, elegant shape, often fast-looking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleek/#m2)

3) (of people) Well-dressed and looking rich or too smooth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleek/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In The Wind in the Willows the Water Rat and the Otter have sleek fur from swimming; Toad's motor cars are sleek and shining. In science, sleek streamlined shapes cut through air or water with less drag, which is why dolphins, fish and fast cars are sleek.

### examples

- The otter's fur was sleek and wet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleek/#x1)
- A sleek black cat sat on the wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleek/#x2)
- The sleek new train sped past. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleek/#x3)
- Dolphins have sleek bodies for fast swimming. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleek/#x4)
- The horse's coat was sleek after brushing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleek/#x5)
- The Water Rat was sleek and brown. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleek/#x6)
- From that day the Hen became fat and sleek, and never once laid another egg. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleek/#x7)

### note

Comparative: sleeker, sleekest. Rhymes with «week». Do not confuse with «slick» (smooth and clever, sometimes slippery).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sleek» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleek/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.