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nick

/nik/US // nɪk //UK // (nɪk) //

缺口,缺点,缺少,缺点是

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a small notch, groove, chip, or the like, cut into or existing in something.
    • : a hollow place produced in an edge or surface, as of a dish, by breaking, chipping, or the like: I didn't notice those tiny nicks in the vase when I bought it.
    • : a small dent or wound.
    • : a small groove on one side of the shank of a printing type, serving as a guide in setting or to distinguish different types.
    • : Biochemistry. a break in one strand of a double-stranded DNA or RNA molecule.
    • : British Slang. prison.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to cut into or through: I nicked my chin while shaving.
    • : to hit or injure slightly.
    • : to make a nick or nicks in; notch, groove, or chip.
    • : to record by means of a notch or notches.
    • : to incise certain tendons at the root of to give it a higher carrying position; make an incision under the tail of.
    • : to hit, guess, catch, etc., exactly.
    • : Slang. to trick, cheat, or defraud: How much did they nick you for that suit?
    • : British Slang. to arrest.to capture; nab.to steal: Someone nicked her pocketbook on the bus.

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Examples

  • Nick asked her to quit her job to help out with his business.

  • His method is to slit open the sides of a box first, then slightly lift up the middle before you slice down, so you don’t puncture or nick anything packed near the top.

  • I moved back to Colorado in 2005 and logged 30 days on the mountain, learning to snowboard behind my friend Nick.

  • Just one grade ahead, Nick was tall and handsome and friendly.

  • It wasn’t getting much traction, but a friend of Nick’s, who worked for an e-commerce agency, said that if the two could tweak it for building e-commerce pages specifically, his agency would use it and even pay them.

  • The incident sparked his belief in Santa, but he would have to wait nearly two decades before dressing up as Jolly St. Nick.

  • Internet media entrepreneur Nick Denton is a person to whom harsh judgments adhere like barnacles.

  • For Nick Offerman, of Parks and Recreation, the one is a thing: whiskey.

  • “The majority of it goes to Nick and Owen, to the company,” former RSD instructor Kole told me.

  • Pointing out that Nick Denton writes and speaks like a literate adult and not like a 14-year-old in remedial English.

  • Such of the sound waves is pass through the second nick will become attenuated in charging the chamber B.

  • Tom pitched forward heavily, saving himself and his animal from an ignominious accident just in the nick of time.

  • The nick-name of Gigonnet was applied to Bidault on account of a feverish, involuntary contraction of a leg muscle.

  • "Huh," grunted Mollie, as she flung herself upon Old Nick's back and patted him soothingly.

  • Nick came over and perched himself upon the table's edge, one leg swinging in the air.