Definizione monolingua

nick

nick (third-person singular simple present nicks, present participle nicking, simple past and past participle nicked)

1. (transitive) To make a nick in, especially unintentionally.

   I nicked myself while I was shaving.

2. (transitive, slang) To steal.

   Someones nicked my bike!

3. (transitive, UK, slang) To arrest.

   The police nicked him climbing over the fence of the house hed broken into.

4. (transitive, cricket) to hit the ball with the edge of the bat and produce a fine deflection
5. (obsolete) To nickname; to style.

   For Warbeck, as you nick him, came to me. — Ford.

nick (plural nicks)

1. A small cut in a surface
2. A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.
   • By a kind of godsend, Fifty shillings did, in the very nick of time, fall due, or seem to fall due, from one of his Farmers (1843 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 4, Abbot Hugo)
3. (cricket) a small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch
4. Short for nickname.
5. (UK, slang) Condition

   The car I bought was cheap and in good nick.

6. (UK, slang) A police station or prison

   He was arrested and taken down to Sun Hill nick to be charged. (police station)

   Hes just been released from Shadwell nick after doing ten years for attempted murder. (prison)

nick

1. nothing

Definizione dizionario nick

afferrare

arrestare

cogliere

fermare

intaccare

intaccatura

intaglio

interrompere

rubare

scoprire

sgraffignare

tacca

Altri significati:

a shortened form of "nickname"

(transitive, slang) To steal.

A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.

(transitive, cricket) to hit the ball with the edge of the bat and produce a fine deflection

(cricket) a small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch

(UK, slang) A police station or prison

(transitive) To make a nick in, especially unintentionally.

(UK, slang) Condition

To steal

A small cut in a surface

(transitive, UK, slang) To arrest.