Nick

[nɪk]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) (British slang) a prison; 'he's in the nick'.

(verb.) mate successfully; of livestock.

(verb.) divide or reset the tail muscles of; 'nick horses'.

(verb.) cut a nick into.

(verb.) cut slightly, with a razor; 'The barber's knife nicked his cheek'.

編輯:纳内特--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) An evil spirit of the waters.

(n.) A notch cut into something

(n.) A score for keeping an account; a reckoning.

(n.) A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution.

(n.) A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; nicks in china.

(n.) A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.

(v. t.) To make a nick or nicks in; to notch; to keep count of or upon by nicks; as, to nick a stick, tally, etc.

(v. t.) To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in.

(v. t.) To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.

(v. t.) To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.

(v. t.) 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).

(v. t.) To nickname; to style.

校對:马蒂

同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Critical point (of time), critical moment, fortunate conjuncture.[2]. Notch, dent, dint, indentation, incision.

v. a. Notch, cut notches in.

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解釋/意思:

n. the devil esp. Old Nick.

n. a notch cut into something: a score for keeping an account: the precise moment of time: a lucky throw at hazard.—v.t. to cut in notches: to hit the precise time: to strike as if making a nick: to cheat: catch in the act: to cut short: (Scot.) to cut with a single snip as of shears: to make a cut with the pick in the face of coal to facilitate blasting or wedging.—adj. Nick′-eared crop-eared.—n. Nick′er one who or that which nicks: a woodpecker: a street-ruffian in the early part of the 18th century.—Nick a horse's tail to make a cut at the root of the tail making the horse carry it higher.

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