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nicked

/nik/US // nɪk //UK // (nɪk) //

有缺口的,有缺口,缺口,缺点

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Definitions

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

  • After six years at Turner, Witherspoon, Anders and Tyler, Attorneys at Law, Nick thought she might’ve achieved partner, but no.

  • Having grown up with a single dad in a low-income household, she trusted Nick’s know-how over her own.

  • Nick would max it out with $5,000 worth of business purchases and promptly pay it off the next day.

  • In 2008, Nick and I took an American Institute for Avalanche Research and Education Level 1 avalanche course, and I got a pair of bulky alpine touring bindings for cheap, mounting them on an old pair of skis my friend Mitsu sold me for $100.

  • “It really seems like we got there just in the nick of time,” Sven-Erik Spichiger, an entomologist at the Washington State Department of Agriculture who oversaw the process, said during a news conference Tuesday.

  • Nothing vital has been damaged, but a major artery was nicked.

  • The dishes troubled her, they were so thick and nicked in so many places, that it was difficult to find one which was whole.

  • When she had finished they discovered that one of her six bullets had just nicked the edge of the paper.

  • I hadn't been hit so badly; just bullet shock and a nicked shoulder to keep me in bed for a couple of days.

  • "I should have been in peril of having my ear nicked," he said, under his breath, as he crossed the threshold.

  • For safety, glass tops that have become chipped or nicked on the edges that fit the jar should be replaced by perfect ones.