Nick
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- (a notch score, small cut or break) ខ្មោចបិសាច, ស្នាមកាប់, ស្នាមលាក់ a nick in a plate ស្នាមឆែប, in nick of time ដល់ពេលឃើញល្មម
verb — past tense: nicked ; past participle: nicked ; present participle: nicking ;
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- (TRANSITIVE) ~ somebody (for something) (to make a notch in, to indent; in the nick of time at the propitious or vital moment) nick a plate ធ្វើអោយឆែប
Example: He dropped a knife on her plate and made a nick in it, He nicked the table with his knife.
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
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- An evil spirit of the waters.
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- A notch cut into something
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- A score for keeping an account; a reckoning.
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- 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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- A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; nicks in china.
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- A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.
verb — past tense: nicked ; past participle: nicked ; present participle: nicking ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) 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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- (TRANSITIVE) To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To make a cross cut or cuts on the under side of (the tail of a horse, in order to make him carry ir higher).
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- (TRANSITIVE) To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in.
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- dent, gouge, indentation, mar, notch, score, scrape, scratch
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- To nickname, to style