nick
Kelime Anlamı :

1. in the nick of time: tam zamanında.
2. diş, çentik, kertik.
3. çalmak.
4. old Nick: Şeytan.
5. yakalamak.
6. işaret edilmiş yer.
7. tam zamanında isabet ettirmek.
8. (isim)ck.
9. kırpmak.
10. yürütmek.
Sahne Örnekleri :
Eş Anlamlı Kelimeler :
Tanımlar :
1. to make a nick or notch in; notch; cut or mark with nicks or notches.
2. to sever with a snip or single cut, as with shears.
3. to cut short; abridge. see nick, n., 3.
4. to break or crack; smash as the nickers used to do. see nicker, 2.
5. in coal-mining, to cut (the coal) on the side, after kirving, holing, or undercutting.
6. to nod; wink.
7. to strike or hit right; hit or hit upon exactly; fit into; suit.
8. in gaming, to throw or turn up; hit or hit upon.
9. to delude or deceive; cozen; cheat, as at dice.
10. to catch in the act.
11. to fit; unite or combine; be adapted for combining: said, in stock-breeding, of the crossing of one strain of blood with another.
12. to suit; compare; be comparable.
13. in the game of hazard, to throw a winning number. compare nick, n., 3.
14. to bet; gamble.
15. to nickname; hence, to annoy or tease by nicknaming.
16. A hollow cut or slight depression made in the surface of anything; a notch.
17. A score or reckoning: so called from the old practice of keeping reckonings on tallies or notched sticks.
18. A false bottom in a beer-can, by which customers were cheated, the nick below and the froth above filling up part of the measure.
19. point, especially point of time: as, in the nick ofthat is, on the point of (being or doing something).
20. the exact point (of time) which accords with or is demanded by the necessities of the case; the critical or right moment; the very moment: used chiefly in the phrases in the nick or in the nick of timethat is, at the right moment, just when most needed or demanded.
21. A lucky or winning throw in the game of hazard: as, eleven is the nick to seven. see hazard, 1.
22. the devil: usually with the addition of old.
23. in type-founding, a small groove, made by the mold on the front side and lower part of the body of american type.
24. in violin-making, one of the little notches cut midway in the side of an f-hole or sound-hole, to indicate the proper location for the bridge.
25. in lumbering, same as undercut, 2.
26. in craps, a throw of 7 or 11, which wins all the stakes for the caster immediately.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
1. (british slang) a prison
2. divide or reset the tail muscles of
3. cut slightly, with a razor
4. cut a nick into
5. an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
6. a small cut
7. mate successfully; of livestock
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