Nick vs Course - What's the difference?

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Nick is a related term of course.

As a proper noun nick

is a diminutive of the male given name nicholas.

As a verb course is

nick

English

(wikipedia nick)

Noun

(en noun)

A small cut in a surface.

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

in the nick of time

#*, II.20:

Truely he flies when he is even upon the nicke , and naturally hasteneth to escape it, as from a step whereon he cannot stay or containe himselfe, and feareth to sinke into it.

#* Howell

to cut it off in the very nick

# (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.

Meanings connoting something small.

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

# (real tennis) The point where the wall of the court meets the floor.

# (genetics) One of the single-stranded DNA segments produced during nick translation.

(archaic) A nixie, or water-sprite.

* 1879 , Viktor Rydberg, The Magic of the Middle Ages (p.201)

*:imps, giants, trolls, forest-spirits, elves and hobgoblins in and on the earth; nicks , river-sprites in the water, fiends in the air, and salamanders in the fire.

a user's reserved nick on an IRC network

(UK, slang) In the expressions in bad nick'' and ''in good nick : condition.

The car I bought was cheap and in good nick .

* '>citation

(British, slang) A police station or prison.

He was arrested and taken down to Sun Hill nick [police station] to be charged.

He's just been released from Shadwell nick [prison] after doing ten years for attempted murder.

Derived terms

* in the nick of time

Verb

(en verb)

To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.

I nicked myself while I was shaving.

# 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).

# To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in.

#* Prior

And thence proceed to nicking sashes.

#* Shakespeare

The itch of his affection should not then / Have nicked his captainship.

To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.

* Camden

Words nicking and resembling one another are applicable to different significations.

# To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.

#* L'Estrange

The just season of doing things must be nicked , and all accidents improved.

# To throw or turn up (a number when playing dice); to hit upon.

#* {{quote-book, year=1773

, author=Oliver Goldsmith , title=She Stoops to Conquer , text=My old luck: I never nicked seven that I did not throw ames ace three times following.}}

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

(obsolete) To nickname; to style.

* Ford

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

(slang) To steal.

Someone's nicked my bike!

(transitive, British, slang) To arrest.

The police nicked him climbing over the fence of the house he'd broken into.

course

English

Noun

(en noun)

A sequence of events.

# A normal or customary sequence.

#* Shakespeare

The course of true love never did run smooth.

#* Milton

Day and night, / Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost, / Shall hold their course .

# A programme, a chosen manner of proceeding.

# Any ordered process or sequence or steps.

# A learning program, as in a school.

#* 1661 , , The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond

During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant

#* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The attack of the MOOCs , passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses , the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}

# A treatment plan.

# A stage of a meal.

# The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.

#* Bible, 2 Chron. viii. 14

He appointed the courses of the priests.

A path that something or someone moves along.

# The itinerary of a race.

# A racecourse.

# The path taken by a flow of water; a watercourse.

# (sports) The trajectory of a ball, frisbee etc.

# (golf) A golf course.

# (nautical) The direction of movement of a vessel at any given moment.

# (navigation) The intended passage of voyage, such as a boat, ship, airplane, spaceship, etc.

(nautical) The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.

A row or file of objects.

# (masonry) A row of bricks or blocks.

# (roofing) A row of material that forms the roofing, waterproofing or flashing system.

# (textiles) In weft knitting, a single row of loops connecting the loops of the preceding and following rows.

(music) A string on a lute.

(music) A pair of strings played together in some musical instruments, like the vihuela.

Derived terms

* bird course * courseless * courselike * crash course * due course * let nature take its course * massive open online course (MOOC) * of course * off course * on course

Verb

To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).

The oil coursed through the engine.

Blood pumped around the human body courses throughout all its veins and arteries.

* 2013 , Martina Hyde, Is the pope Catholic?'' (in ''The Guardian , 20 September 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/20/is-pope-catholic-atheists-gay-people-abortion]

He is a South American, so perhaps revolutionary spirit courses through Francis's veins. But what, pray, does the Catholic church want with doubt?

To run through or over.

* Alexander Pope

The bounding steed courses the dusty plain.

To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.

* Shakespeare

We coursed him at the heels.

To cause to chase after or pursue game.

to course greyhounds after deer

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