Nicked vs Gauged - What's the difference?
nicked | gauged |
(nick)
A small cut in a surface.
# A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.
#*, II.20:
#* Howell
# (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.
(UK, slang) In the expressions in bad nick'' and ''in good nick : condition.
* '>citation
(British, slang) A police station or prison.
To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.
# 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
#* Shakespeare
To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
* Camden
# To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.
#* L'Estrange
# 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
(slang) To steal.
(transitive, British, slang) To arrest.
(gauge)
A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard
* 2007 . Zerzan, John. Silence . p. 2.
* Burke
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.
The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
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.
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
(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.
As verbs the difference between nicked and gauged
is that nicked is past tense of nick while gauged is past tense of gauge.nicked
English
Verb
(head)nick
English
(wikipedia nick)Noun
(en noun)- in the nick of time
- 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.
- to cut it off in the very nick
- a user's reserved nick on an IRC network
- The car I bought was cheap and in good nick .
- 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 timeVerb
(en verb)- I nicked myself while I was shaving.
- And thence proceed to nicking sashes.
- The itch of his affection should not then / Have nicked his captainship.
- Words nicking and resembling one another are applicable to different significations.
- The just season of doing things must be nicked , and all accidents improved.
- For Warbeck, as you nick him, came to me.
- Someone's nicked my bike!
- The police nicked him climbing over the fence of the house he'd broken into.
gauged
English
Verb
(head)gauge
English
(wikipedia gauge)Alternative forms
* gageNoun
(en noun)- The record of philosophy vis-à-vis silence is generally dismal, as good a gauge as any to its overall failure.
- the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt
- 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.
- (Totten)
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 gaugeVerb
(gaug)- You shall not gauge me / By what we do to-night.
