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nick | gauge |

As a proper noun nick

is a diminutive of the male given name nicholas.

As a noun gauge is

a measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard.

As a verb gauge is

to measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.

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.

    gauge

    English

    (wikipedia gauge)

    Alternative forms

    * gage

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard
  • * 2007 . Zerzan, John. Silence . p. 2.
  • The record of philosophy vis-à-vis silence is generally dismal, as good a gauge as any to its overall failure.
  • * Burke
  • the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt
  • An act of measuring.
  • Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things; as, a rain gauge; a steam gauge.
  • A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes.
  • (rail transport) The distance between the rails of a railway.
  • (mathematics, analysis) A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.
  • (knitting) The number of stitches per inch, centimetre, or other unit of distance.
  • Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind.
  • A vessel has the weather gauge''' of another when on the windward side of it, and the lee '''gauge when on the lee side of it.
  • The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
  • (Totten)
  • The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to make it set more quickly.
  • That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles.
  • Derived terms

    * broad gauge * Coulomb gauge * gauge boson * gauge field * gauge theory * lattice gauge theory * Lorentz gauge * narrow gauge * quantum gauge theory * rail gauge * rain gauge * standard gauge * Weyl gauge

    Verb

    (gaug)
  • To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.
  • To estimate.
  • To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of.
  • * Shakespeare
  • You shall not gauge me / By what we do to-night.
  • (textile) To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it.
  • To mix (a quantity of ordinary plaster) with a quantity of plaster of Paris.
  • To chip, hew or polish (stones, bricks, etc) to a standard size and/or shape.
  • See also

    * gage * gouge

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