Dictionary Entry
nick
nick is a 4-letter English word with 19 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An evil spirit of the waters. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 19 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
An evil spirit of the waters.
- 2noun
A notch cut into something
- 3noun
A score for keeping an account; a reckoning.
- 4noun
A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution.
- 5noun
A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; nicks in china.
- 6noun
A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.
- 7transitive verb
To make a nick or nicks in; to notch; to keep count of or upon by nicks; as, to nick a stick, tally, etc.
- 8transitive verb
To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in.
- 9transitive verb
To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
- 10transitive verb
To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.
- 11transitive verb
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).
- 12transitive verb
To nickname; to style.
- 13noun
a small cut
- 14noun
(British slang) a prison
"he's in the nick"
- 15noun
an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
- 16verb
mate successfully; of livestock
- 17verb
divide or reset the tail muscles of
"nick horses"
- 18verb
cut a nick into
Synonyms
- 19verb
cut slightly, with a razor
"The barber's knife nicked his cheek"
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