Nick

Definition: Nick

Nick

Noun

1. An impression in a surface (as made by a blow).

2. A small cut.

Verb

1. Cut slightly, with a razor; "The barber's knife nicked his cheek".

2. Cut a nick into.

3. Divide or reset the tail muscles, as of horses.

4. Mate successfully; of livestock.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Nick" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a victory of the people".

Date "nick" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Computing

Electrical Engineering

Literature

Publishing & Graphic Arts

Slang

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Nick

Deception

Decoy, waylay, lure, beguile, delude, inveigle; entrap, intrap, ensnare; nick, springe; set a trap, lay a trap, lay a snare for; bait the hook, forelay, spread the toils, lime; trapan, trepan; kidnap; let in, hook in; nousle, nousel; blind a trail; enmesh, immesh; shanghai; catch, catch in a trap; sniggle, entangle, illaqueate, hocus, escamoter, practice on one's credulity; hum, humbug; gammon, stuff up, sell; play a trick upon one, play a practical joke upon one, put something over on one, put one over on; balk, trip up, throw a tub to a whale; fool to the top of one's bent, send on a fool's errand; make game, make a fool of, make an April fool of, make an ass of; trifle with, cajole, flatter; come over; (influence); gild the pill, make things pleasant, divert, put a good face upon; dissemble.

Indication

Mark, scratch, line, stroke, dash, score, stripe, streak, tick, dot, point, notch, nick.

Notch

Verb: notch, nick, cut, dent, indent, jag, scarify, scotch, crimp, scallop, scollop, crenulate, vandyke.

Noun: notch, dent, nick, cut; indent, indentation; dimple.

Occasion

Nick of time; golden opportunity, well timed opportunity, fine opportunity, favorable opportunity, opening; clear stage, fair field; mollia tempora; fata Morgana; spare time; (leisure).

Adverb: opportunely; Adjective: in proper course, in due course, in proper season, in due season, in proper time, in due time; for the nonce; in the nick of time, in the fullness of time; all in good time; just in time, at the eleventh hour, now or never.

Punctuality

Verb: be prompt, be on time, be in time; arrive on time; be in the nick of time.

Phrase: touch and go, not a minute too soon, in the nick of time, just under the wire, get on board before the train leaves the station.

Success

Answer, answer the purpose; avail, prevail, take effect, do, turn out well, work well, take, tell, bear fruit; hit it, hit the mark, hit the right nail on the head; nick it; turn up trumps, make a hit; find one's account in.

Crosswords: Nick

Swedish (Beck, nod), Turkish (Nick).

I don't want to kill you, Nick, I just want you to suffer (Double Jeopardy; writing credit: David Weisberg; Douglas Cook)

Nick, when you recollect your childhood, are your recollections pleasing to you (Basic Instinct; writing credit: Joe Eszterhas)

We had a small fire last night, but we caught it in a nick of time (Planes, Trains & Automobiles; writing credit: John Hughes.)

Nick, come on, admit it. You're totally and completely gay (What Women Want; writing credit: Josh Goldsmith; Cathy Yuspa)

Nick, how do I say, 'thanks for the meal' in Greek (My Big Fat Greek Wedding; writing credit: Nia Vardalos)

I got there in the nick of time (Once Bitten Twice Shy; performing artist: Great White)

Nick knits Nixon's knickers. (references; author: unknown)

Flash Nick From Jindavick (1974)

Adventures of Nick Carter (1972)

Nick Carter (1971)

In the Nick (1960)

Nick of the River (1959)

Didn't You Used To Be Somebody? (performing artist: Nick and the Animal Mind Gravenites)

Four Floors Or Forty (performing artist: Nick and the Animal Mind Gravenites)

Get Together (performing artist: Nick and the Animal Mind Gravenites)

Jet Jaguar (performing artist: The Nick Atoms)

Lost In Space (performing artist: The Nick Atoms)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Waiting for Nick (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Nick Jr. (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Nick Jr. Holiday DVD Sampler (Dora the Explorer/Blue's Clues/Little Bill/Rugrats) (reference)

• Snick, Vol. 1 - Nick Snicks Friendship (reference)

• Abnormal: The Sinema of Nick Zedd (reference)

• The Twilight Zone: Nick of Time/ The Passersby (reference)

• Uncle Nick and the Magic Forest, Vol. 1: Poco and Friends (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Nick Fatool's Jazz Band & Quar (reference)

• Best of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (reference)

• Stick Insect by Nick Beggs (reference)

• Way to Blue: An Introduction to Nick Drake (reference)

• Nick at Nite: Patio Pool Party (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Nick & Nora Clouds Trimline Phone (reference)

• Nicktoons Nick Tunes Microphone and CD-ROM Game (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Rectenwald, Dean Heckathorn, Nick Iadanza at the Spring Creek arm of Keswick Reservoir. The yellowish area under the water is sludge. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

They're the Royal Canadian Mounties of the immune system-the heroes who show up in the nick of time-and they take on all bacterial invaders, be they salmonella, listeria, pasteurella, or E. coli. They're infection-fighting white blood cells called heterophils, and poultry immunologist Michael Kogut has found a way to make them do his bidding to protect young poultry. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller..

Photograph probably taken on board USS Minnesota (Battleship # 22), circa 1910, and published on a stereograph card by the Keystone View Company during the World War I period. Note other men relaxing and reading. Note "Nick Carter" magazine in center, and men at right holding a USS Minnesota cap ribbon. . See Photo # NH 85292 (extended caption) for the text printed on the original stereograph card's reverse side, concerning the sailors' "comfort bags" and other items provided by American women through the Red Cross and Navy League during World War I. Credit: NAVY.

Set to between Old Hickory and Bully Nick. Credit: Library of Congress.

Nick Maddox. Credit: Library of Congress.

Witte tells Nick how it happned [i.e. happened] : me and the Czar. Credit: Library of Congress.

In the nick of time!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Nick Phillips, eighty-one years old with wife in front of house. Ashland, Missouri. Missouri game and arboretum project. Columbia, Missouri. Credit: Library of Congress.

Nick Grillo, as a boy in Italy, dreamed of America and its opportunity, Southington, Connecticut. Credit: Library of Congress.

News photographers photographing Paulina Longworth, daughter of Nick and Alice Longworth, being held by woman on sidewalk, Washington, D.C. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

German Socialism forgot, in the nick of time, that the French criticism, whose silly echo it was, presupposed the existence of modern bourgeois society, with its corresponding economic conditions of existence, and the political constitution adapted thereto, the very things whose attainment was the object of the pending struggle in Germany. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Take extra care not to cut or nick yourself when using scissors, needles, knives, or tools. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "nick": be in the nick of time ♦ in good nick ♦ in the nick of time ♦ nick a train ♦ nick nack ♦ nick oneself ♦ nick out ♦ nick point ♦ nick the time ♦ old Nick ♦ Saint Nick ♦ St Nick. Additional references.

Beginning with "nick": Nick-End, Nick-farr, Nick-nack, nick-nacks, nick-name, nick-named, nick-names, nick-naming, nick-nicked, Nick-picky-wickety-pingle-pang.

Ending with "nick": Clever-dick-nick, ex-nick.

Albanian

Ngastër (location, lot, parcel, patch, plot), I Prerë (amputated, categorical, crisp, curdy, curt, cut, felled, firm, flat, flat-footed, hewn, indented, outright, peremptory, positive, pronounced, shorn, short, straight out, toreutic, truncated), Çalltoj, Burg (cage, calaboose, can, choky, clink, gaol, jail, limbo, lockup, mill, pen, penitentiary, poky, prison, prison house, quod, stir), E Prerë (chamfer, cut, indentation, notch, notching, snip, split, twist), E Thelluar, Gërvisht (bark, clank, clapperclaw, claw, graze, jingle, lacerate, scarify, scrabble, scratch, strum, tear), Çallatë (Dent), Gjendje (circumstance, circumstances, condition, fettle, form, medium, milieu, pass, picture, position, posture, rating, shape, situation, state, status, the right, way), Rruvijë (groove), Moment (fit, hour, instant, moment, momentum), Parcelë (parcel), Pres (amputate, anticipate, await, be asking for, be expecting, be on the watch, be waiting, bide, buck, chop, clip, coin, cut, cut away, cut open, detruncate, disforest, dissect, entertain, expect, exscind, fell, hew, host, knife, look for, look forward to, mince, mint, notch, obtruncate, poll, prune, screw, section, sever, shut off, sit on the fence, slash, slot, snip, take, Tarry, undercut, wait, ween, whack), Qok, Qokë (dap), Gdhend (adz, adze, carve, chase, chisel, die, enchase, engrave, gouge, incise, inscribe, intaglio, polish, rasp, refine, sculp, sculpt, sculpture, shape, shave). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نقطة بوليس, ‏حز (cut, girdle, invest, notch, snick, tap), ‏حالة (case, circumstance, condition, conjuncture, drama, estate, event, feather, fettle, incident, job, manner, occurrence, phase, picture, place, plight, pose, position, posture, rate, shape, situation, state, status, trim, way, weather, whack), ‏سجن (be imprisoned, can, clap, clink, confine, cooler, detain, detention, gaol, hatch, hock, immure, imprison, imprisonment, incarcerate, incarceration, intern, internment, jail, jug, lock up, lockup, log cabin, mure, penitentiary, pokey, prison, quod, send up, stir, throw), ‏سرق (convey, crib, crook, filch, hook, lift, misappropriate, mooch, nobble, pick, pinch, plunder, purloin, rip off, rob, sack, sneak, steal, swipe, thieve, walk off with), ‏خدع (bamboozle, beguile, betray, bilk, bitch, bite, blind, bluff, brown, bubble, camouflage, catch, cheat, chisel, con, crook, deceive, deception, decoy, defraud, delude, diddle, do, dupe, entrap, fall for, feint, fiddle, fob, fool, fox, get round, give the lie to, gull, gyp, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, illusory, impose, intrigue, jape, job, leg pull, lure, mislead, mock, mystify, overreach, pitch, play a trick, pose, prank, pull a fast one, pull his leg, ream, rook, sell, settle his hash, skin, skunk, slang, stick, string along, swank, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, victimize, wile), ‏إنتهز (grab, nick the time, seize, take advantage of), ‏إختصر (abbreviate, abridge, analyse, analyze, boil down, clip, curtail, cut short, limit, outline, reduce, shorten, syncopate), ‏أوقف (arrest, arrested, break, can, cease, challenge, check, choke, cut, cut out, discontinue, estop, garage, halt, hinder, intercept, kill, nobble, obstruct, pull in, shut off, stand, stay, stem, stop, turn off), ‏ثلم (blunt, chase, furrow, groove, notch), ‏شن هجمات, ‏شق (chap, check, chink, cleavage, cleave, cleft, crack, cranny, crash, crevasse, crevice, cut, excavate, fissure, flaw, fracture, hew, hole, incise, incision, jag, loophole, lump, open, overture, part, rift, rip, rive, slash, slit, slot, snag, snip, spiracle, splinter, split, spring, tear, twist), ‏دون (below, beneath, inferior, mark, mark down, notch, note, put down, record, set down, stick down, take down, take notes, tally, transcribe, under, write, write down, write out). (various references)

Bulgarian 

Затвор, Свивам, Свиване, Стесняване, Цепка, Шлиц, Идвам Навреме, Измамвам (Seel), Вряз, Врязвам Знак В, Хващам, Хърбел, Рязка, Назъбвам, Открадвам, Нащърбявам (Dent), Арестувам, Канал, Критичен Момент, Пипвам, Полицейски Участък (Tana), Порязвам, Правя Рязка, Правя Щърбка, Прорез, Определено Време, Обирам (Rob), Щръбка. (various references)

Chinese 

裂口 (rift, RIP, RIPS), 缺口 . (various references)

Czech

Zářez (Dent, incision, kerf, notch, snick, socket, tally), Vyèíhat Si (waylay), Vrub (Dent, notch, score, tally), Udìlat Vrub (notch), Stihnout (be in time for, catch), Poznamenat (observe, remark, say, scar), Okamžik (instant, jiff, jiffy, minute, moment, second, tick, trice), Kriminál (clink, gaol, jail), Basa (bass, case, clink, contrabass, crate, double bass). (various references)

Danish

kløvning (cleavage, rip sawing, ripping), indsnit (lancing, notch), hak (notch). (various references)

Dutch

knip (bolt), inkeping (notch). (various references)

Farsi 

موقع بحرانی , سربزنگاه (Pinch), شکستن (Break, Chop, Cleave, Crackle, Disobey, Fraction, Fracture, Infract, Infraction, Refract, Shatter, Smite, Stave, Violate), شکستگی (Fraction, Fracture), شکاف (Break, Chap, Chasm, Chink, Clef, Crack, Craze, Crevice, Cut, Fraction, Fracture, Hiatus, Incision, Interstice, Notch, Overture, Rake, Rip, Scar, Seam, Slash, Slit, Slither, Split, Suture), دندانه دندانه کردن , دندانه (Cog, Dent, Jag, Leaf, Peg, Tine, Tooth). (various references)

Finnish

vankila (jail, joutua, prison), uurros (notch), pykälä (clause, dent, notch, paragraph, section), lovi (dent, gap, notch, score). (various references)

French

Entaille. (various references)

German

Kerbe (dent, hack, incision, indent, indentation, notch, score, snick). (various references)

Greek 

εγκοπή (incision, indenture, notch, slash, slotting). (various references)

Hebrew 

ּעשות ַריץ, ּחרוק, ּחרוץ, ּרמות, ַתך, ַריץ, ׁדק, ״גע ־כריע. (various references)

Hungarian

rovátka (chase, cut, gouge, groove, indent, jag, notch, notching, score, scotch, snick). (various references)

Indonesian

torehan pada kayu. (various references)

Italian

Tacca (Dent, dint, Nock, notch, score), Intaccatura (cut, Dent, hack, kerf, notch). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ニコチン中毒 (knickerbockers, knickers, Nicholas, nickel, nickel-cadmium, nickname, nicotinism, smile, varnish), 刻み目　 (marks on a ruler, notch), 刻み目 (marks on a ruler, notch), 刻み (notch, shredded tobacco). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ニック , きざみめ (marks on a ruler, notch), きざみ (notch, shredded tobacco). (various references)

Korean 

흠. (various references)

Manx

Niglus (Nicholas), cur aggad ayn (notch), cur agg ayn (jag, notch, score), beam (cut, gash, handful of corn, sickleful), aggad (deep cut, notch, sore, step), agg (notch, score, step). (various references)

Pig Latin

icknay.(various references)

Portuguese

momento crítico (turning-point), incisão (cut, cutting, kerf, score, scotch, slit, snick), fender (cleave, crack, cut, cut up, fissure, flaw, let by, open, rend, rip, rive, sever, slit, split, sunder), entalhe (cannelure, chase, croze, cutting, dent, fillister, furrow, gab, groove, hack, indent, indentation, indention, intaglio, jag, jagg, kerf, mortise, notch, rabbet, slot, snick), entalhar (carve, chisel, dent, furrow, groove, hack, incise, indent, jag, mortice, mortise, notch, rabbet), diabo (boomer, daemon, demon, deuce, devil, dickens), corte (address, build, chop, cohort, court, courtship, cutting, cutting edge, gash, hack, hackery, incision, intersection, kerf, make, pen, scission, score, slash, swinery, tailoring), chanfrar (bevel, cant, chamfer, dent, groove, jag, notch, rabbet, scarf, splay), chanfradura (chamfer, dent, indentation, notch), afanar (pinch). (various references)

Romanian

Zdup (bang, bump, flop, jug, limbo, quod, smash, thud, thump), Vale Îngustã, Tãieturã (cleft, cut, cutting, furrow, gash, hack, kerf, louver, make, notch, scar, scission, scotch, section, set, slash, slit, snick, style), Rãboj (chalk, notch, score, tally), Gâtuire (strangulation), Face O Crestãturi În, Face O Crestãturã În, Crestare, Crestãturã (channel, hack, indenture, louver, notch, score, scotch, slash, slot, snick), Cresta (Dent, engrail, excise, Harrow, indent, jag, notch, round, score, scotch, slash, snick, stripe, wound), Crãpãturã (breach, break, chasm, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, eyehole, fissure, flaw, loophole, rent, rift, slit, slot, split, yawn), Îngustare. (various references)

Russian 

Задержать Преступника, Сужение, Делать Метки, Точный Момент, Трещина (Rive), Угадать, Ущелье, Сокращенный, Щербина, царапать щербина, Надрез, Зарубка (Dent, Nock), Засечка, Метка (Mark), Попасть В Точку, Поспеть Вовремя, Щель (Rive). (various references)

Scottish

eag (a nick, hack, notch). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zasek (incision, kerf, notch, score, snick), zarezati (cut, notch, score, sharpen), zarez (comma, cut, nock, notch, score), urezati (carve, engrave, imprint, inscribe, intaglio), urez (cut, indent, nock, notch, rabbet). (various references)

Spanish

mella (dent, dint, hack, notch), Muesca (indent, joggle, mortice, mortise, notch, score, scotch, slot). (various references)

Swedish

hack (chip, hack, indentation, jag, notch). (various references)

Thai

สถานีตำรวจ (cop-shop), รอยบาก (notch), คุก (calaboose, chokey, gaol, hold, lockup). (various references)

Turkish

Nick, Hapishane (bull pen, cage, can, choky, clink, cooler, coop, gaol, institution, jail, pen, penal institution, penitentiary, pound, prison, quod, roundhouse, shop, stir, stockade, tank, ward), Çentik (Dent), Çentmek (Dent), Ýsabet Ettirmek, Doğru Tahmin Etmek, Dolandırmak (bilk, bunco, cheat, chisel, con, cozen, defraud, diddle, do, do down, do in, double cross, flimflam, gammon, gold brick, gull, gyp, have, hornswoggle, jockey, nobble, racketeer, rook, rotate, sell smb. a gold brick, sell smb. a pup, spoof, swindle, take in), Enselemek (catch, cop, seize by the neck, take smb. by the scruff of the neck), Çalmak (Rob), Gedik (breach, crevice, inroad, notch, rent), Yürütmek (collar, filch, go through with, hold down, lift, make away with, pilfer, prig, prosecute, purloin, pursue, push, scrounge, snaffle, sneak, wage, walk, walk away with, walk off with), Karakol (headquarters, police office, police station, police-station, post, station, station house, watchhouse), Kazıklamak (bunco, cheat, chisel, clip, do smb. brown, fleece, fob, fob smb. off, gouge, have smb. on, jew, overcharge, put it on, put it over on, rook, rush, sell, skin, soak, sting, stuff smb., take for a ride), Kesmek (abandon, amputate, Bate, blunt, break, butcher, carve, cease, chaff, chop, chop off, clip, close, close down, crop, cut, cut back, cut off, cut out, deaden, disconnect, discontinue, dock, drop, dry up, excise, fair, fell, gash, give over, hack, hew, interrupt, intersect, kill, knife, lay off, lop, lop off, nick oneself, nip, nip off, occlude, pare, poll, prune, saw off, sever, shave, shear, shut down on, shut down upon, shut off, slash, slaughter, slice, slit, snick, stanch, staunch, stem, stop, truncate, wrap it up, wrap up), Tutuklamak (apprehend, arrest, bust, imprison, jail, pick up, pull in, rap, seize, take into custody, take smb. in charge), Yüksek Sayı Atma, Gafil Avlamak (catch, catch smb. napping, catch smb. unawares, come on, come upon, take by surprise, take smb. unawares). (various references)

Ukrainian

Відрізати, Робити Щербини, Холодна, Ущелина (Chine), Украсти, Угадати, Тріщина (Rive), Встигнути Вчасно, Щілина, В'язниця, Надріз, Відбивати Край чогось, Бирка, Шийка, Спіймати Злочинця, Розрізати, Робити Мітку, Робити Зарубку, Вузька Долина, Клеймувати Дерева, Овити Слушний Момент, Обдурити, Підрізати, Прорізати, Проріз, Поцупити, Потягти, Щербина, Критичний Момент, Ошукати, Мітка, Звуження, Засічка, Застати Зненацька, Зарубка (Nock), Нарізка, Затримати Злочинця, Попасти В Точку. (various references)

Vietnamese 

nấc, khía đúng lúc. (various references)

Welsh

rhicio (notch), rhic (groove, notch). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "nick": nicked, nickel, nickeled, nickelic, nickeliferous, nickeling, nickelled, nickelling, nickelodeon, nickelodeons, nickels, nicker, nickered, nickering, nickers, nicking, nickle, nickled, nickles, nickling, nicknack, nicknacks, nickname, nicknamed, nicknamer, nicknamers, nicknames, nicknaming, nicks. (additional references)

Words ending with "nick": dominick, dornick, kinnikinnick, nudnick, snick. (additional references)

Words containing "nick": cupronickel, cupronickels, dominicker, dominickers, dominicks, donnicker, donnickers, dornicks, finickier, finickiest, finickin, finickiness, finickinesses, finicking, finicky, finnickier, finnickiest, finnicky, kinnikinnicks, knickerbocker, knickerbockers, knickers, knickknack, knickknacks, monicker, monickers, nudnicks, panicked, panickier, panickiest, panicking, panicky, pernickety, persnicketiness, persnicketinesses, persnickety, picnicked, picnicker, picnickers, picnicking, picnicky, pumpernickel, pumpernickels, snicked, snicker, snickered, snickerer, snickerers, snickering, snickers, snickersnee. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Nick" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anack, Enock, ick, naccb, naci, nack, Nacka, nacky, nacl, nacm, nask, Nauck, nc, ncca, ncia, Nciv, ncl, nec, neci, necl, neco, Nek, Nesko, neuk, nhic, nic, nica, Nicco, nicf, Nich, nici, nicke, nickick, Nicklo, Nicko, nicky, nicl, nico, nics, nict, nicu, nicv, nicy, nifk, nik, nika, Nikb, niki, Nikky, nilc, nilk, nipkow, nitc, Nivc, Nivkh, Noic, Nuc, nuck, nuict, nusk, Nycb, nyuk, unick, zick. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ick, ink, kin.

-2 letters: in.

+1 letter: chink, clink, nicks, snick.

+2 letters: antick, caking, calkin, catkin, chinks, chinky, clinks, coking, nicked, nickel, nicker, nickle, pyknic, sicken, snicks, unpick, zincky.

+3 letters: anticks, arcking, backing, becking, bucking, calking, calkins, canakin, canikin, carking, casking, catkins, chewink, chicken, chinked, chinook, choking, clinked, clinker, cocking, conking, cooking, corking, cowskin, crinkle, crinkly, decking, dickens, docking, dornick, ducking, duckpin, finback, finicky, gecking, hacking, hocking, jacking, kachina, katcina, kecking, kenotic, ketonic, kicking, kinesic, kinetic, kingcup, kitchen, lacking, licking, locking, lucking, mocking, mucking, necking, necktie, niblick, nickels, nickers, nicking, nickled, nickles, nitpick, nocking, nudnick, nutpick, packing, panicky, pecking, picking, pocking, pyknics, quicken, racking, recking, ricking, rocking, rucking, sacking, sickens, sicking, snicked, snicker, socking, sucking, tacking, thicken, ticking, tucking, unpicks, unstick, wicking, winnock, yacking, yocking, yucking, zincked.