Nick vs. Dent
Difference Between Nick and Dent
Nick➦
Nick is a masculine given name. It is also often encountered as a short form (hypocorism) of the given names Nicholas, Nicola, Nicolas, Nikola, Nicolai or Nicodemus.
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Dent➦
A depression in a surface made by pressure or a blow
a dent in the side of a car.
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Nick➦
a small cut or notch
a small nick on his wrist
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Dent➦
(Informal) A significant, usually diminishing effect or impression
The loss put a dent in the team's confidence.
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Nick➦
prison
he'll end up in the nick for the rest of his life
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Dent➦
(Informal) Meaningful progress; headway
at least made a dent in the work.
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Nick➦
the junction between the floor and side walls in a squash court or real tennis court.
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Dent➦
See tooth.
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Nick➦
make a nick or nicks in
he had nicked himself while shaving
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Dent➦
To make a dent in.
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Nick➦
steal
she nicked fivers from the till
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Dent➦
To become dented
a fender that dents easily.
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Nick➦
arrest (someone)
Stuart and Dan got nicked for burglary
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Dent➦
A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact.
The crash produced a dent in the left side of the car.
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Nick➦
go quickly or surreptitiously
they nicked across the road
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Dent➦
(figurative) A minor impact or effect made upon something.
to make a dent
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Nick➦
A shallow notch, cut, or indentation on an edge or a surface
nicks in the table.
razor nicks on his chin.
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Dent➦
A type of maize/corn with a relatively soft outer hull, and a soft type of starch that shrinks at maturity to leave an indentation in the surface of the kernel.
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Nick➦
Chiefly British Slang A prison or police station.
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Dent➦
A sudden negative change, such as loss, damage, weakening, consumption or diminution, especially one produced by an external force, event or action
That purchase put a bit of a dent in my wallet.
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Nick➦
(Printing) A groove down the side of a piece of type used to ensure that it is correctly placed.
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Dent➦
(engineering) A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.
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Nick➦
To cut a nick or notch in.
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Dent➦
(weaving) A slot or a wire in a reed
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Nick➦
To cut into and wound slightly
A sliver of glass nicked my hand.
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Dent➦
(transitive) To impact something, producing a dent.
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Nick➦
To cut short; check
nicked an impulse to flee.
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Dent➦
(intransitive) To develop a dent or dents.
Copper is soft and dents easily.
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Nick➦
(Slang) To cheat, especially by overcharging.
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Dent➦
A stroke; a blow.
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Nick➦
To steal.
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Dent➦
A slight depression, or small notch or hollow, made by a blow or by pressure; an indentation.
A blow that would have made a dent in a pound of butter.
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Nick➦
To arrest.
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Dent➦
A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.
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Nick➦
A small cut in a surface.
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Dent➦
To make a dent upon; to indent.
The houses dented with bullets.
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Nick➦
A particular place or point considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.
in the nick of time
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Dent➦
an appreciable consequence (especially a lessening);
it made a dent in my bank account
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Nick➦
A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution.
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Dent➦
a depression scratched or carved into a surface
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Nick➦
Senses connoting something small.
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Dent➦
an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
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Nick➦
(cricket) A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch.
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Dent➦
make a depression into;
The bicycle dented my car
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Nick➦
(genetics) One of the single-stranded DNA segments produced during nick translation.
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Nick➦
The point where the wall of the court meets the floor.
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Nick➦
Often in the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition, state.
The car I bought was cheap and in good nick.
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Nick➦
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.
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Nick➦
(Internet) nickname
a user’s reserved nick on an IRC network
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Nick➦
(archaic) A nix or water]] spirit.
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Nick➦
(transitive) To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.
I nicked myself while I was shaving.
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Nick➦
(transitive) To make ragged or uneven, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to deface, to mar.
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Nick➦
To make a crosscut or cuts on the underside of (the tail of a horse, in order to make the animal carry it higher).
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Nick➦
To fit into or suit, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
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Nick➦
To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.
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Nick➦
To hit the ball with the edge of the bat and produce a fine deflection.
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Nick➦
To throw or turn up (a number when playing dice); to hit upon.
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Nick➦
To make a cut at the side of the face.
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Nick➦
To steal.
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Nick➦
To arrest.
The police nicked him climbing over the fence of the house he’d broken into.
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Nick➦
To give or call (someone) by a nickname; to style.
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Nick➦
An evil spirit of the waters.
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Nick➦
A notch cut into something
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Nick➦
A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; as, nicks in a china plate; a nick in the table top.
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Nick➦
A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.
To cut it off in the very nick.
This nick of time is the critical occasion for the gaining of a point.
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Nick➦
To make a nick or nicks in; to notch; to keep count of or upon by nicks; as, to nick a stick, tally, etc.
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Nick➦
To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to create a nick{2} in, deliberately or accidentally; as, to nick the rim of a teacup.
And thence proceed to nicking sashes.
The itch of his affection should not thenHave nicked his captainship.
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Nick➦
To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
Words nicking and resembling one another are applicable to different significations.
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Nick➦
To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.
The just season of doing things must be nicked, and all accidents improved.
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Nick➦
To make a cross cut or cuts on the under side of (the tail of a horse, in order to make him carry it higher).
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Nick➦
To nickname; to style.
For Warbeck, as you nick him, came to me.
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Nick➦
an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
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Nick➦
a small cut
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Nick➦
cut slightly, with a razor;
The barber's knife nicked his cheek
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cut a nick into
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Nick➦
divide or reset the tail muscles of;
nick horses
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Nick➦
mate successfully; of livestock
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