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| Käännös | Konteksti |
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| Verbit |
| 2. | | slangi |
Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- A small cut in a surface.
- (now rare) A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.
- (printing, dated) A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution.
- Meanings connoting something small.
- (cricket) A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch.
- (real tennis) The point where the wall of the court meets the floor.
- (genetics) One of the single-stranded DNA segments produced during nick translation.
- (archaic) A nixie, or water-sprite.
- (UK, slang) In the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition.
- (British, slang) A police station or prison.
Verbit
- (transitive) To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.
- To make a cross cut or cuts on the underside of (the tail of a horse, in order to make the animal carry it higher).
- (transitive) To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in.
- To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
- To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.
- To throw or turn up (a number when playing dice); to hit upon.
- (transitive, cricket) to hit the ball with the edge of the bat and produce a fine deflection
- (obsolete) To nickname; to style.
- (transitive, slang) To steal.
- (transitive, British, slang) To arrest.
Esimerkit
- I nicked myself while I was shaving.
- Someone has nicked my wallet!
- You should change your IRC nick.
- The police nicked him climbing over the fence of the house he'd broken into.
- Someone's nicked my bike!
- For Warbeck, as you nick him, came to me.
- The just season of doing things must be nicked, and all accidents improved.
- Words nicking and resembling one another are applicable to different significations.
- The itch of his affection should not then / Have nicked his captainship.
- And thence proceed to nicking sashes.
- in the nick of time
- He's just been released from Shadwell nick [prison] after doing ten years for attempted murder.
- He was arrested and taken down to Sun Hill nick [police station] to be charged.
- [F]urther south in Kent, there was St. Mildred, whose mother, in 670, founded the minster that still stands there in good nick, with nine nuns who are an ever-present help in trouble to all religions and none.
- The car I bought was cheap and in good nick.
- a user's reserved nick on an IRC network
- [...]imps, giants, trolls, forest-spirits, elves and hobgoblins in and on the earth; nicks, river-sprites in the water, fiends in the air, and salamanders in the fire.
- to cut it off in the very nick
- Truely he flies when he is even upon the nicke, and naturally hasteneth to escape it, as from a step whereon he cannot stay or containe himselfe, and feareth to sinke into it.
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