Associations to the word «Nick»
Noun
- Polymerase
- Scratch
- Shaving
- Strand
- Dna
- Razor
- Blade
- Nickelodeon
- Artery
- Ron
- Lowe
- Bullet
- Drow
- Replication
- Cleavage
- Knife
- Wet
- Forearm
- Levine
- Fury
- Jonas
- Shave
- Sap
- Wrist
- Weasel
- Dagger
- Rib
- Thigh
- Knuckle
- Drake
- Tonight
- Cheung
- Gage
- Sword
- Enzyme
- Diaz
- Fencing
- Subunit
- Skin
- Chin
- Calf
- Template
- Chopper
- Bucks
- Cave
- Iain
- Ear
- Curb
- Hemingway
- Sharon
- Novak
- Scar
- Angie
- Carter
- Nail
- Waverley
- Bassist
- Tip
- Armor
- Keyboardist
- Rim
- Malley
- Kicker
- Joaquin
- Thrust
- Egan
- Garrett
- Nicholas
- Throat
- Nick
- Drummer
- Lopez
- Vein
- Nicky
- Tko
- Griffin
- Dustin
Adjective
Adverb
Wiktionary
NICK, noun. A small cut in a surface.
NICK, noun. (now rare) A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.
NICK, noun. (printing) (dated) A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution.
NICK, noun. Meanings connoting something small.
NICK, noun. (cricket) A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch.
NICK, noun. (real tennis) The point where the wall of the court meets the floor.
NICK, noun. (genetics) One of the single-stranded DNA segments produced during nick translation.
NICK, noun. (archaic) A nixie, or water-sprite.
NICK, noun. Short for nickname.
NICK, noun. (UK) (slang) In the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition.
NICK, noun. (British) (slang) A police station or prison.
NICK, verb. (transitive) To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.
NICK, verb. To make a cross cut or cuts on the underside of (the tail of a horse, in order to make the animal carry it higher).
NICK, verb. (transitive) To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in.
NICK, verb. To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
NICK, verb. To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.
NICK, verb. To throw or turn up (a number when playing dice); to hit upon.
NICK, verb. (transitive) (cricket) to hit the ball with the edge of the bat and produce a fine deflection
NICK, verb. (obsolete) To nickname; to style.
NICK, verb. (transitive) (slang) To steal.
NICK, verb. (transitive) (British) (slang) To arrest.
NICK, proper noun. A diminutive of the male given name Nicholas.
NICK, proper noun. Diminutive form of Nickelodeon.
NICK OFF, verb. (AU) (slang) To leave, especially in a hurry.
NICK OFF, interjection. (UK) (Australian) Go away! fuck off
NICK POINT, noun. A point at which a river suffers a break of slope in its long profile; the current point of rejuvenation working upstream
NICK TRANSLATION, noun. (genetics) A tagging technique in molecular biology in which DNA polymerase I is used to replace some of the nucleotides of a DNA sequence with their labelled analogues, creating a tagged sequence which can be used as a probe in hybridization or blotting techniques.
Dictionary definition
NICK, noun. An impression in a surface (as made by a blow).
NICK, noun. (British slang) a prison; "he's in the nick".
NICK, noun. A small cut.
NICK, verb. Cut slightly, with a razor; "The barber's knife nicked his cheek".
NICK, verb. Cut a nick into.
NICK, verb. Divide or reset the tail muscles of; "nick horses".
NICK, verb. Mate successfully; of livestock.
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