Nick

Tamil Dictionary definitions for Nick

Nick : வடு

Nick definition

Noun.

  1. An evil spirit of the waters.
  2. A notch cut into something
  3. A score for keeping an account; a reckoning.
  4. A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution.
  5. A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; nicks in china.
  6. A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.

Transitive verb.

  1. To make a nick or nicks in; to notch; to keep count of or upon by nicks; as, to nick a stick, tally, etc.
  2. To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in.
  3. To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
  4. To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.
  5. 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).
  6. To nickname; to style.