Nick

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “in the nick of time”

2. isim A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution.
3. isim A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch.
4. isim One of the single-stranded DNA segments produced during nick translation.

   “The nick translation process is simply a replication of DNA in vitro with DNA polymerase I (Klenow fragment) and radioactive nucleotide, which becomes incorporated into the duplicated DNA at a nick (break).”

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

   “Spin is a major feature of real tennis – because of it, some of the slowest shots can be the hardest to return. [...] Strokes played into the "nick" (the corner of the floor and the wall) and aggressive drives into the dedans, the winning gallery, or the grille are unreturnable.”

6. isim Often in the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition, state.

   “The car I bought was cheap and in good nick.”

7. isim A police station or prison.

   “He was arrested and taken down to Sun Hill nick [police station] to be charged.”

8. fiil To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.

   “I nicked myself while I was shaving.”

9. fiil To make ragged or uneven, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to deface, to mar.

   “The itch of his Affection ſhould not then / Haue nickt his Captain-ſhip, at ſuch a point, / When halfe to halfe the world oppos'd, he being / The meered queſtion?”

10. fiil To make a crosscut or cuts on the underside of (the tail of a horse, in order to make the animal carry it higher).
11. fiil To fit into or suit, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.

    “An Alluſion is as it were a dalliance or playing with words, like in ſound, vnlike in ſense, by changing, adding, or ſubtracting a letter or two; ſo that words nicking and reſembling one the other, are appliable to diffrent ſignifications.”

12. fiil To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.

    “[I]t requires a Critical Nicety both of Wit, and of Judgment, to find out the Genius, or the Propenſions, of a Child, […] The Juſt Seaſon of Doing Things must be Nick'd, and All Accidents Obſerv'd and Improv'd; for Weak Minds are to be as Narrowly Attended, as Sickly Bodies: […]”

13. fiil To hit the ball with the edge of the bat and produce a fine deflection.

    “Two balls later, I nick one and it carries beautifully to Peter Bowler at first slip, a complete dolly catch, and he drops it.”

14. fiil To throw or turn up (a number when playing dice); to hit upon.

    “My old luck: I never nick'd ſeven that I did not throw ames ace three times following.”

15. fiil To make a cut at the side of the face.
16. fiil To steal.

    “Someone’s nicked my bike!”

17. fiil To arrest.

    “The police nicked him climbing over the fence of the house he’d broken into.”

18. isim Clipping of nickname.

    “a user’s reserved nick on an IRC network”

19. fiil To give or call (someone) by a nickname; to style.

    “For Warbecke as you nicke him, came to me / Commended by the States of Chriſtendome.”

20. isim A nix or nixie (“water spirit”).
21. özel isim A diminutive of the male given name Nicholas.

    “His name is Nick. I love it. It makes him seem nice, and regular, which he is. When he tells me his name, I say, 'Now, that's a real name.'”