Definitions for nick
nɪknick

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.5 / 2 votes

1. dent, ding, gouge, nicknoun

   an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)

2. nicknoun

   (British slang) a prison

   "he's in the nick"

3. notch, nick, snickverb

   a small cut

4. nick, snickverb

   cut slightly, with a razor

   "The barber's knife nicked his cheek"

5. nick, chipverb

   cut a nick into

6. nickverb

   divide or reset the tail muscles of

   "nick horses"

7. nickverb

   mate successfully; of livestock

GCIDERate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Nickverb

   To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to create a nick in, deliberately or accidentally; as, to nick the rim of a teacup.

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. nicknoun

   A small cut in a surface

2. nicknoun

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

3. nicknoun

   a small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch

4. nicknoun

   Condition

   The car I bought was cheap and in good nick.

5. nicknoun

   A police station or prison

6. nicknoun

   The point where the wall of the court meets the floor.

7. nickverb

   To make a nick in, especially unintentionally.

   I nicked myself while I was shaving.

8. nickverb

   To steal.

   Someone's nicked my bike!

9. nickverb

   To arrest.

   The police nicked him climbing over the fence of the house he'd broken into.

10. nickverb

    to hit the ball with the edge of the bat and produce a fine deflection

11. nickverb

    To nickname; to style.

    For Warbeck, as you nick him, came to me. uE00082758uE001 Ford.

12. Nicknoun

    A diminutive of the male given name Nicholas.

13. Nicknoun

    diminutive form of Nickelodeon.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. NICKnoun

   Etymology: nicke, Teutonick, the twinkling of an eye.

   1. Exact point of time at which there is necessity or convenience.

   That great instrument of state had foreknowledge of it, but suffered the fatal thread to be spun out to that length for some politick respects, and then to cut it off in the very nick. James Howell, Vocal Forest.

   What in our watches that in us is found,
   So to the height and nick we up be wound,
   No matter by what hand or trick. John Suckling.

   That trick,
   Had it come in the nick,
   Had touch’d us to the quick. John Denham.

   Though dame fortune seem to smile,
   And leer upon him for a while;
   She’ll after shew him in the nick
   Of all his glories a dog trick. Hudibras, p. i. cant. 3.

   And some with symbols, signs, and tricks,
   Engraved in planetary nicks,
   With their own influences will fetch them
   Down from their orbs, arrest and catch them. Hud.

   This nick of time is the critical occasion for the gaining of a point. Roger L'Estrange.

   2. A notch cut in any thing. [Corrupted from nock or notch.]3. A score; a reckoning.

   Launce his man told me, he lov’d her art of all nick. William Shakespeare.

   4. A winning throw. [ niche, Fr. a ludicrous trick.]

   Come, seven’s the main,
   Cries Ganymede; the usual trick
   Seven, slur a six, eleven a nick. Matthew Prior.

2. To Nickverb

   Etymology: from the noun.

   1. To hit; to touch luckily; to perform by some slight artifice used at the lucky moment.

   Is not the winding up of witness
   A nicking more than half the bus’ness? Hudibras, p. ii.

   The just season of doing things must be nick’d, and all accidents improved. Roger L'Estrange, Fable 38.

   Take away passion while it is predominant and afloat, and just in the critical height of it, nick it with some lucky or unlucky word, and you may certainly over-rule it. South.

   2. To cut in nicks or notches.

   His beard they have sing’d off with brands of fire;
   And ever as it blaz’d they threw on him
   Great pails of puddled mire to quench the hair.
   My master preaches patience, and the while
   His man with scissars nicks him like a fool. William Shakespeare.

   Breaks watchmen’s heads, and chairmen’s glasses,
   And thence proceeds to nicking sashes. Matthew Prior.

   3. To suit, as tallies cut in nicks.

   Words nicking and resembling one another, are applicable to different significations. William Camden, Remains.

   4. To defeat or cozen, as at dice; to disappoint by some trick or unexpected turn.

   Why should he follow you?
   The itch of his affection should not then
   Have nick’d his captainship, at such a point. William Shakespeare.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. nick

   A nick is a small cut or notch in a surface or edge. As a verb, it means to make such a cut or notch, or to slightly damage or injure something or someone. Additionally, it is also used as a colloquial term for arresting or stealing in British English. It can also be a short form of the name Nicholas.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. Nicknoun

   an evil spirit of the waters

2. Nicknoun

   a notch cut into something

3. Nicknoun

   a score for keeping an account; a reckoning

4. Nicknoun

   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. Nicknoun

   a broken or indented place in any edge or surface; nicks in china

6. Nicknoun

   a particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment

7. Nickverb

   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. Nickverb

   to mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in

9. Nickverb

   to suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with

10. Nickverb

    to hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time

11. Nickverb

    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. Nickverb

    to nickname; to style

13. Etymology: [AS. nicor a marine monster; akin to D. nikker a water spite, Icel. nykr, ONG. nihhus a crocodile, G. nix a water sprite; cf. Gr. ni`ptein to wash, Skr. nij. Cf. Nix.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Nick

   A nick is a discontinuity in a double stranded DNA molecule where there is no phosphodiester bond between adjacent nucleotides of one strand typically through damage or enzyme action. Nicks allow for the much-needed release of torsion in the strand during DNA replication.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Nick

   nik, 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. [Another spelling of nock, old form of notch.]

2. Nick

   nik, n. the devil, esp. Old Nick. [Prob. a corr. of St Nicholas, or from A.S. nicor, a water-spirit; Ice. nykr, Ger. nix, nixe.]

The New Hacker's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. nick

   to put a name on a person,or animal or else

   
   

   Submitted by magna on October 11, 2019  

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Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. NICK

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Nick is ranked #9100 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Nick surname appeared 3,590 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Nick.
   
   76.2% or 2,738 total occurrences were White.
   10.3% or 370 total occurrences were Black.
   7.1% or 256 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   3.1% or 112 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.5% or 57 total occurrences were Asian.
   1.5% or 57 total occurrences were of two or more races.

Matched Categories

1. • Blemish
   • Change
   • Cut
   • Mate
   • Prison

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'nick' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3751

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'nick' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1757

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How to pronounce nick?

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How to say nick in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of nick in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of nick in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of nick in a Sentence

1. Roger Federer:

   Nick Kyrgios definitely crossed the line by a long shot, we're not used to that kind of talk in tennis. It's normal that the tour comes down hard on Nick Kyrgios and explains to Nick Kyrgios that it's not the way forward.

2. Judge Bertelsman:

   Covington student suing WAPO. Go get them Nick. Fake News !

3. Priyanka Chopra:

   I am honored and so thrilled actually, and tickled to be here tonight to roast my husband, Nick Jonas, and his brothers, whose names I can never remember.

4. Marcus Foligno:

   Kevin Fiala and Nick Bonino’re still chasing the top teams, that's probably the biggest thing right now. Yes Kevin Fiala and Nick Bonino did make the playoffs, which was a huge objective of ours at the start of the season. But hopefully Kevin Fiala and Nick Bonino can get higher and catch a team or two. There’s still work to be done.

5. Jay Seawell:

   He just gets to be Nick Saban, i think golf allows him to be Nick Saban, which I think is a really, really good deal.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=nick
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=nick
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Nick
4. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=nick
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nick
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=nick
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=nick
9. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Nick
10. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
    https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
11. ^ Usage in printed sources
    https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=nick