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1. (n.) nick
a small notch, groove, chip, or the like.
2. nick
a small dent or wound.
3. nick
a small groove on one side of the shank of a printing type.
4. nick
a break in a strand of a DNA or RNA molecule.
5. nick
Brit. Slang. prison.
6. (v.t.) nick
to cut into or through.
7. nick
to hit or injure slightly.
8. nick
to make a nick or nicks in (something); notch, groove, or chip.
9. nick
to incise certain tendons at the root of (a horse's tail) to give it a higher carrying position; make an incision under the tail of (a horse).
10. nick
to hit, guess, catch, etc., exactly.
11. nick
Slang. to trick, cheat, or defraud.
12. nick
Brit. Slang.
13. nick
to arrest (a criminal or suspect).
14. nick
to capture; nab.
15. nick
to steal.
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| Definition of 'nick' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) dent, ding, gouge, nick
an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
2. (noun) nick
(British slang) a prison
"he's in the nick"
3. (verb) notch, nick, snick
a small cut
4. (verb) nick, snick
cut slightly, with a razor
"The barber's knife nicked his cheek"
5. (verb) nick, chip
cut a nick into
6. (verb) nick
divide or reset the tail muscles of
"nick horses"
7. (verb) nick
mate successfully; of livestock
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1. (noun) nick
a small dent or cut
a nick in the smooth surface of the wood
2. nick
in the nick of time
just before it is too late
He jumped out of the way just in the nick of time.
3. (verb) nick
to get a little cut
I must have nicked myself with the scissors.
4. nick
steal
Someone nicked my bag!
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) nick
an evil spirit of the waters
2. (noun) nick
a notch cut into something
3. (noun) nick
a score for keeping an account; a reckoning
4. (noun) nick
a notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution
5. (noun) nick
a broken or indented place in any edge or surface; nicks in china
6. (noun) nick
a particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment
7. (verb) nick
to make a nick or nicks in; to notch; to keep count of or upon by nicks; as, to nick a stick, tally, etc
8. (verb) nick
to mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in
9. (verb) nick
to suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with
10. (verb) nick
to hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time
11. (verb) nick
to make a cross cut or cuts on the under side of (the tail of a horse, in order to make him carry ir higher)
12. (verb) nick
to nickname; to style
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The New Hacker's Dictionary |
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1. nick
[IRC; very common] Short for nickname. On
IRC, every user must pick a nick, which is sometimes
the same as the user's real name or login name, but is often more fanciful.
Compare handle,
screen name.
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Sense: a small cut
There was a nick in the doorpost.
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 Afrikaans: nerf, keep |
 Arabic: ثَلْم، حَز |
 Bulgarian: резка |
 Brazilian: corte |
 Czech: zářez |
 German: die Kerbe |
 Danish: hak |
 Greek: εγκοπή |
 Spanish: muesca, hendedura |
 Estonian: sälk |
 Farsi: چاک |
 Finnish: lovi |
 French: entaille |
 Hebrew: חֲתָך דַק |
 Hindi: खरोंच |
 Croatian: urez |
 Hungarian: karcolás |
 Indonesian: goresan, torehan |
 Icelandic: skora |
 Italian: tacca, intaccatura |
 Japanese: 刻み目 |
 Korean: 흠 |
 Lithuanian: įpjova, įraiža, įkarpa |
 Latvian: iegriezums; ierobījums; i |
 Malay: calar |
 Dutch: kerf |
 Norwegian: hakk, skår(e) |
 Polish: nacięcie |
 Persian: چوچه پشك |
 Pashto: د پيشو بچى |
 Portuguese: corte |
 Romanian: crestătură |
 Russian: зарубка |
 Slovak: zárez |
 Slovenian: zareza |
 Serbian: zasek |
 Swedish: hack, skåra |
 Thai: รอยบาก |
 Turkish: çentik, kertik, hafif kes |
 Taiwanese: 裂口, 刻痕 |
 Ukrainian: зарубка, засічка |
 Urdu: کھانچا، نشان |
 Vietnamese: nấc; khía |
 Chinese: 裂口，刻痕 |
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