Nickel vs Nicked - What's the difference?
nickel | nicked |
(uncountable) A silvery elemental metal with an atomic number of 28 and symbol Ni.
(US, Canada, countable) A coin worth 5 cents.
Five dollars.
Five hundred dollars.
Interstate 5, a highway that runs along the west coast of the United States.
(slang) A playing card with the rank of five
A five-year prison sentence.
(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.
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(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.
As verbs the difference between nickel and nicked
is that nickel is to plate with nickel while nicked is past tense of nick.As a noun nickel
is a silvery elemental metal with an atomic number of 28 and symbol Ni.As a proper noun Nickel
is {{surname|patronymic|from=given names}.nickel
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Noun
Derived terms
* antimonial nickel * arsenical nickel * bismuth-nickel * copper-nickel * cupro-nickel * cupronickel * hot nickel * Nichrome * nickel-and-dime * nickel-antigorite * nickel bag * nickel-bloom * nickel bronze * nickel carbonyl * nickel chloride * nickel-chlorite * nickel glance * nickel green * nickel gymnite * nickel hydride * nickel hydroxide * nickelian * nickelic * nickeliferous * nickeline * nickel-in-the-slot * nickel-iron * nickelisation * nickelization * nickelise * nickelize * nickelite * nickel nitrate * nickel note * nickel nurser * nickelocene * nickelodeon * nickelous * nickel ocher * nickel ochre * nickel pyrites * nickel regulus * nickel salt * nickel silver * nickel-skudderudite * nickel spinel * nickel steel * nickel sulfate * nickel sulphate * nickel sulfide * nickel sulphide * nickel tetracarbonyl * not worth a plug nickel * not worth a plugged nickel * plug nickel * plugged nickel * Raney nickel * tetracarbonylnickelReferences
* Weisenberg, Michael (2000)The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523
See also
* false copper * garnierite * pentlandite ----nicked
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Verb
(head)nick
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(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.