Notch

Definition: Notch

Notch

Noun

1. A V-shaped indentation; "mandibular notch".

2. The location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks; "we got through the pass before it started to snow".

3. A V-shaped or U-shaped indentation carved or scratched into a surface; "there were four notches in the handle of his revolver".

4. A small cut.

Verb

1. Cut or make a notch into; "notch the rope".

2. Notch a surface to record something.

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

Date "notch" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

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Medicine

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Mining

Slang

Slang in 1811

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

Synonyms: Notch

Angularity

Angularity, angularness; aduncity; angle, cusp, bend; fold; notch; fork, bifurcation.

Indication

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

Interval

Gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm; gulf; inlet, frith, strait, gully; pass; furrow; abra; barranca, barranco; clove, gulch, notch; yawning gulf; hiatus maxime, hiatus valde deflendus; parenthesis; (interjacence); void c. (absence); incompleteness.

Notch

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

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

Record

Record, note, minute; register, registry; roll; (list); cartulary, diptych, Domesday book; catalogue raisonne; entry, memorandum, indorsement, inscription, copy, duplicate, docket; notch; (mark); muniment, deed; (security); document; deposition, proces verbal; affidavit; certificate; (evidence).

Crosswords: Notch

Your self esteem is like a notch below Kafka's (Manhattan; writing credit: Woody Allen ; Marshall Brickman)

Just in case you're interested, it's called the supersternal notch. Come and visit us in Dorset when all this nonsense is over (The English Patient; writing credit: Anthony Minghella)

Look, I've had my peace with the fact that everyone who calls here is a notch above brain dead, and that the pennies I am thrown each week are in exchange for me dealing with these people in a nonviolent manner (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset)

It's like a notch underneath child molester (Annie Hall; writing credit: Woody Allen ; Marshall Brickman)

Before I put another notch in my lipstick case (HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT; performing artist: Pat Benatar)

Lowers my IQ one notch (I Can't Watch This; performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic)

Notch Number One (1924)

The Eighth Notch (1913)

Crawford Notch (1899)

Notch samoubijcy (1991)

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

Books

• 48 Top Notch Track Plans: From Model Railroader Magazine (Model Railroad Handbook, No 39) (reference)

• Guide to Crawford Notch (reference)

• Notch from Neurodevelopment to Neurodegeneration: Keeping the Fate (reference)

• Paint Shop Pro 6 Visual Insight: Learn the Most Useful Techniques for Everyday Tasks and Then Take It Up a Notch with Some Special Effects (reference)

• Six Notch Road (Joshua Trail Trilogy) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Top Notch Toys (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• One Notch Up (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Multimedia Expansion Base forhp Omnibook 500 with Infrared Notch (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.

Strongyloides filariform larva. Tip of tail showing notch. Nematode, worm, parasite. Credit: CDC.

A weir with a "V" notch at Boulder Creek below the influence of Iron Mountain Mine. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Looking downstream at the notch in the dam just prior to installation of the Alaskan Steep Pass. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Just before the notch is cut, sand bags are placed at the headwaters to allow notching of the dam. Once the dam is notched the ladder can be fit into place. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

The completed notch in the dam just before placement of the ladder. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Sandbags are placed above the dam and a worker begins the first cut to notch the dam. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Cutting the notch in the dam. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Contractors begin to fit the fish ladder into the notch in the dam. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

The notch in a humpback whale's tail is distinctive. Megaptera novaeangliae. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Clouds over Kiger Notch, Steen's Mountain. Credit: John Craig.

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

Business

Diagnostic medical equipment and all related hi-tech top notch equipment are considered best prospects for U.S. manufacturers. (references)

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

Expressions using "notch": a notch above ♦ be a notch above the others ♦ Cinder notch ♦ cut notch ♦ mandibular notch ♦ metallurgical notch ♦ notch graft ♦ notch off ♦ notch up ♦ slag notch ♦ Smugglers Notch ♦ Sugar Notch ♦ top notch ♦ trapezoidal notch. Additional references.

Ending with "notch": top-notch.

Albanian

nivel (class, degree, extent, league, level, Mark, pitch, plane, reach, standard, stream), dhëmbëz (barb, cog, Dent, denticle, dentil, jag, merlon, Nock, notching, pallet, tooth), dhëmbëzoj (Dent, engrail, indent, jag, mill, pink, skin over, tooth), e prerë (chamfer, cut, indentation, Nick, notching, snip, split, twist), gradë (degree, grade, level, rank, rating, stripe, thermometer), grykë malore (ghat, gulch), i hap vrimë (vent), mbështet shigjetën te e prera e harkut (Nock), bëj një të prerë (chamfer, snick), pozicion (attitude, fix, lay, location, pose, position, ranking, situation, stance, stand), vrimë (aperture, bore, dump, ear, excavation, eye, eyehole, eyelet, gap, hole, leak, mesh, mortise, mouth, notching, nozzle, open, opening, orifice, Peck, perforation, pinhole, prick, puncture, recession, rent, shell-hole, slit, slot, tear, vent, venthole), pozitë (beachhead, capacity, footing, position, ranking, side, site, stance, standing, status), 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, Nick, obtruncate, poll, prune, screw, section, sever, shut off, sit on the fence, slash, slot, snip, take, Tarry, undercut, wait, ween, whack), qëndrim (attitude, bearing, carriage, concernment, continuance, deportment, footing, halt, indwelling, mien, poise, port, pose, posture, stand, stay, stop, waiting), shënim (annotation, comment, denotation, denotement, designation, entry, epigram, gloss, jotting, memorandum, notation, notching, note, paragraph, record, remark, writing), shfaqje e vallëzuesve, shkallë (accommodation ladder, caliber, calibre, degree, flight, gauge, gradations, grade, ladder, level, measure, peg, phase, pitch, point, rate, rating, remove, scale, stadium, stair, staircase, stairway), vallëzuese, mbaj shënim (jot down, keep a diary, record). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فل, ‏حز (cut, girdle, invest, nick, snick, tap), ‏سن (age, dent, hone, nib, prong, sharp, tine, tooth), ‏ثلمة, ‏ثلم (blunt, chase, furrow, groove, nick), ‏شجة (scarf), ‏دون (below, beneath, inferior, mark, mark down, nick, note, put down, record, set down, stick down, take down, take notes, tally, transcribe, under, write, write down, write out). (various references)

Bulgarian 

назъбвам (jag, pink, tooth), издълбавам (bore, chase, engrave, gouge, hollow out, incise, quarry, scoop out, scrape, scrape out), изрез (gain), прокарвам v-образен канал, проход (adit, canal, orifice, pass, passage, thoroughfare), прорез (cutting, groove, port, slot), бразда (drill, furrow, groove, line, rut, score, sulcus), дълбей (slot), ниво (level, pitch, plane), степен (degree, exponent, extent, gradations, grade, length, magnitude, order, peg, pitch, power, prairie, rate, remove), нащърбеност, вдлъбнатина (chase, concave, concavity, cove, groove, hole, hollow, indent, indentation, indention, pan, pit, recess, socket, well), врязвам (incise, inlay, inscribe, intaglio), клисура (couloir, defile, draw, gap, gorge, narrow, neck, opening, ravine), щръбка, равнище (level, plane, standard), рязка (incision, ridge, scar, score, streak, stria, stripe, weal, welt), зъб (cog, knife, prong, tongue, tooth). (various references)

Chinese 

山谷 (Dale), 刻痕 . (various references)

Czech

zaznamenat (chalk up, register, score, suffer, tally, write down), zářez (Dent, incision, kerf, Nick, snick, socket, tally), vrub (Dent, Nick, score, tally), udìlat zářez, udìlat vrub (Nick), soutìska (defile, pass). (various references)

Danish

not (cotter, dimple for a shot pin, feather, groove, key, milled slot, peg, seine fishing net, seine net, slot, spline), udsparring, udsparing (dimple for a shot pin, groove, slot), skaar (chip, drift, splinter, swath, windrow, winrow), ridselinie, randhul, kaerv (gain), kærv, indsnit (lancing, nick), indhak, incisura, hak (nick), forhug (belly cut, birdsmouth, box, dip, face, gullet, kerf, lek, moutch, round-up, scarf, set-up, sink, throat, undercut). (various references)

Dutch

kerf (point at which a break is intended to occur), keep (brambling, tear), inkeping (nick). (various references)

Esperanto

noĉo. (various references)

Faeroese

tonn (tooth), skarð (breach, gap). (various references)

Farsi 

فرورفتگی (Dip), چوبخطزدن (Tick), سوراخ کردن 1 (Bore, Broach, Delve, Gimlet, Gore, Impale, Perforate, Punch, Puncture, Scuttle, Slot, Spit, Stab, Steek, Stick, Thrust, Transfix), شکاف چوبخط, شکاف ایجادکردن , شکاف (Break, Chap, Chasm, Chink, Clef, Crack, Craze, Crevice, Cut, Fraction, Fracture, Hiatus, Incision, Interstice, Nick, Overture, Rake, Rip, Scar, Seam, Slash, Slit, Slither, Split, Suture), بریدگی (Cut, Gash, Hyphen, Jag, Rift). (various references)

Finnish

uurros (nick), lovi (dent, gap, score). (various references)

French

entailler, entaille (notches), encoche, coche. (various references)

German

Kerbe (dent, hack, incision, indent, indentation, Nick, score, snick), Raste (detent, dimple for a shot pin, index, index hole, indexing hole, slot). (various references)

Greek 

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

Hebrew 

לחרוק (creak, indent, jar, squeak, squeal), לחרוץ (flute, rut, slit), ש� ת (gradation mark, tooth), פ�'ימ�" (defect, waning), פ�'ם (blemish, blot, defect, fault, flaw, impair, imperfection, shortcoming, weakness), חריץ (crack, crevice, ditch, fissure, flute, fluting, groove, jag, rut, score, slit, slot). (various references)

Hungarian

rovátka (chase, cut, gouge, groove, indent, jag, Nick, notching, score, scotch, snick), csorba (chip, chipped, chippy, dent, jagged, nick, nicked, ragged). (various references)

Indonesian

gundal (knot), caruk (indent, tap). (various references)

Italian

tacca (Dent, dint, Nick, Nock, score), intaglio (carving, intaglio, Nick), intaccatura (cut, Dent, hack, kerf, nick), incisione (cut, cutting, engraving, incision, recording, woodcut). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ノイマン型 (christmas, fungo, Hague, heart, Hercules, hook, knob, knock, knockdown, knocker, knocking, knock-on, knockout, knot, know, know-how, knowledge, nautical mile per hour, Neumann-type, neuron, neurosis, no, noctovision, nocturne, nominal, nominal price, nominate, nomination, nomogram, nomograph, non career, non cling, non store retailing, non troppo, non-attachment disease, nonbank banking, nonbook, nonchalant, non-conforming design, nonfiction, nonius, nonpolitical, non-professional, nonrun, non-sectarian, nonsense, nonslip, nonstop, non-terminal, nontitle match, non-verbal, non-verbal communication, Noraism, Nordic, Norma, Normandy, Norway, nostalgia, nostalgic, nostalgie, notation, notchback, notch-filter, nova, Nova Scotia, novel, novelty, nozzle, number, swastika, unaffiliated, vernier calipers, vernier micrometer), 切目 (break, cut, end, gap, incision, interruption, pause, rift, section), 切れ込み (cut, incision), 切れ目 (break, cut, end, gap, incision, interruption, pause, rift, section), 刻み目　 (marks on a ruler, nick), 刻み目 (marks on a ruler, nick), 刻み (nick, shredded tobacco). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ノッチ (match), きざみめ (marks on a ruler, nick), きざみ (nick, shredded tobacco), きれ�"み (cut, incision), きれめ (break, cut, end, gap, incision, interruption, pause, rift, section). (various references)

Korean 

노치 (Notched, Notching). (various references)

Manx

tailley (duty, fare, fee, impost, score, tally, tally-stick), cur aggad ayn (nick), cur agg ayn (jag, nick, score), croa (aperture, compound, coop, corral, enclave, enclosure, eyehole, fold, pen, ring), aggad (deep cut, nick, sore, step), agg (nick, score, step). (various references)

Pig Latin

otchnay.(various references)

Portuguese

entalhe (cannelure, chase, croze, cutting, dent, fillister, furrow, gab, groove, hack, indent, indentation, indention, intaglio, jag, jagg, kerf, mortise, nick, rabbet, snick). (various references)

Romanian

trecãtoare (gorge, opening, pass), tãieturã (cleft, cut, cutting, furrow, gash, hack, kerf, louver, make, Nick, scar, scission, scotch, section, set, slash, slit, snick, style), tãia (amputate, ax, axe, butcher, cancel, carve, carve out, castrate, chop, clap, cleave, clip, crop, cross, Curdle, cut, cut on the bias, Dent, dissect, engrave, excise, exscind, fell, flench, foul, grave, hew, incise, intercept, kill, measure off, notch off, pare, plough, prune, quarter, resect, rip, Rive, separate, sever, shear, shorten, shut the works down, slaughter, slay, slice, snick, split, Square, stop, strike out, switch off), renurã, rãboj (chalk, Nick, score, tally), jgheab (chase, conduct, cradle, eaves, flume, flute, groove, gully, gutter, horse-pond, jet, rifle, sewer, shoe, spout, trough, valley), depresiune (basin, blues, bottom, cave, cavity, dejection, delve, depression, despondency, draw, hollow, melancholia, pan, sag, scoop), defileu (defile, gate, gullet, narrow path), dantela (engrail, indent, lace), crestãturã (channel, hack, indenture, louver, Nick, score, scotch, slash, slot, snick), cresta (Dent, engrail, excise, Harrow, indent, jag, Nick, round, score, scotch, slash, snick, stripe, wound), canelurã (channel, flute, groove, lug, rifle, rut), şanţ (channel, chase, dike, ditch, flute, Fosse, groove, gully, gutter, moat, rut, trench), ancoşã. (various references)

Russian 

метить (flag, let drive at), инцизура, паз (channel, chase, groove, gutter, mortise, recess, slot), подрез, пропил, прорезать, зазубрина (barb, indent, jag), зазубрить (jag), зарубать, зарубка (dap, gab, hack, kerf, notching, snick), делать выемку (groove), зубрить (bone up, dig, grind, mug, swot), ущелье (coomb, couloir, defile, donga, gap, gorge, gulch, kloof, linn, pass, purgatory, ravine), метка (guide mark, identification, label, marker, marking), нарезка (groove, rifling), впадина (cave, cavity, concave, delve, depression, dimple, dint, excavation, falling, fossa, hollow, indentation, recess, trough, vug), выемка (cannelure, coulisse, cutting, gab, groove, gutter, indent, indentation, notching, recess, roach, ward), вырез (cut, gain, indenture, neckline), вырезка (scrap, tenderloin, undercut), царапина (excoriation, scrape, scratch), щель (areaway, call slot, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, fissure, flaw, gap, hiatus, interstice, peep, rent, rift, slit, slit trench, slot), углубление (depression, dimple, excavation, fossa, hole, hollow, impression, oriel, recess, recession), засечка (click, interference, overreach, serif). (various references)

Scottish

eag (a nick, hack, nick), bèarn (breach, gap). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zasek (incision, kerf, nick, score, snick), zaseći (cut, incise, indent, scarify, score, scotch, snick), zarezati (cut, nick, score, sharpen), zarez (comma, cut, nick, nock, score), uspeh (accomplishment, advance, bomb, run, success), urez (cut, indent, nick, nock, rabbet), recka (mark), postići uspeh (score). (various references)

Spanish

ranura (cut, flume, groove, nick, pod, rabbet, spline), muesca (indent, joggle, mortice, mortise, Nick, score, scotch, slot). (various references)

Swedish

hack (chip, hack, indentation, jag, Nick), urtag (outlet, socket). (various references)

Thai

ทำรอยบาก, รอยบาก (nick). (various references)

Turkish

kertik (cutting, gash, hack, tally), gez (backsight, hindsight), gedik (breach, crevice, inroad, Nick, rent), diş diş yapmak, diş (clove, cog, dent-, dental, jag, knurl, odontic, tooth), dar ve derin dağ geçidi, çetelesini tutmak (keep a tally, tally), çentmek (chip, hack, hew, indent, snick), çentiklemek (mill, score), çentik (chip, chippy, cutting, dint, hack, indent, indentation, jag, kerf, knurl, score, snick, tally). (various references)

Ukrainian

вставляти стрілу в лук, подряпина (chalk, graze, scrape, scratch), позначка (check, label, marker, point, sign, symbol, tick), проріз (aperture, slit), підпиляти дерево, підрубати, зарубка (dap, hag, kerf, notching, score, snick, wound), зарубувати, мітка (speckle), паз (chamfer, groove, joggle, mortice, mortise, rabbet, rebate, slot, socket), виїмка (chamfer, channel, coulisse, gouge, indent, notching), ступінь (cascade, degree, grade, measure, pitch, remove), гірський перевал, щілина (air space, aperture, chap, chink, chop, cleft, crack, cranny, opening, peep), робити пази (chamfer, groove), робити позначки (mark up), робити мітки, робити виїмки (channel), рівень (degree, level, plane), селекторна позначка, ущелина (couloir, crevice, defile, hope, nullah, opening, pass, purgatory, ravine, rift), натягати тятиву. (various references)

Vietnamese 

mức độ (degree, gradation). (various references)

Welsh

rhicio (nick), rhic (groove, nick), hac (cut, hack), bylchu (breach, make a gap), bwlch (aperture, gap, pass). (various references)

decidam, decidant, decidat, decidens, decidentes, decidentia, decidet, decidi, decidissemus, decidisset, decidit, incisura. (various references)

ochier. (various references)

cran, oche. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "notch": notchback, notchbacks, notched, notcher, notchers, notches, notching. (additional references)

Words ending with "notch": topnotch. (additional references)

Words containing "notch": topnotcher, topnotchers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Notch" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gotsch, Nawch, nech, Netc, netch, Ngotho, Nimtech, nitc, nitch, nitche, Nitech, Nitsch, nituchha, Noach, Noachi, noath, noch, noct, Nohc, nooch, nootch, nooth, Nootka, nortech, nosc, notchy, noth, Notke, nouch, Nouchi, nuch, nuth, Onich, snotch, Vojtech. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: chon.

-2 letters: con, cot, hon, hot, noh, not, nth, tho, ton.

-3 letters: ho, no, oh, on, to.

+1 letter: chiton.

+2 letters: chantor, chitons, cholent, cothurn, notched, notcher, notches, tachyon, thionic, torchon, uncouth.

+3 letters: anchoret, anorthic, botching, cenotaph, chantors, chitosan, cholents, chthonic, clothing, coherent, cothurni, cothurns, couchant, hoactzin, hotching, hypnotic, inchoate, notchers, notching, ornithic, orthicon, outpunch, phonetic, photonic, phytonic, pythonic, schizont, tachyons, topnotch, torching, torchons, touching, typhonic, unclothe.

+4 letters: aitchbone, anchorets, anchorite, anchoveta, antechoir, anthocyan, anthropic, antimacho, antishock, benthonic, blotching, buckthorn, ceanothus, cenotaphs, chatoyant, chelation, chitinous, chitosans, chondrite, chortling, chromatin, chthonian, clothings, cohosting, colocynth, cothurnus, decathlon, haplontic, headcount, hectoring, hoactzins, hypnotics, hypotonic, loincloth, macintosh, neolithic, nephrotic, nonethnic, notchback, notochord, orthicons, phonetics, photonics, schizonts, scotching, scutcheon, stanchion, stonechat, sycophant, thecodont, theogonic, thornback, threnodic, tochering, touchdown, touchline, truncheon, unclothed, unclothes, uncouthly, untouched.