nick
noun/nɪk/- 1.
vết khía
A small cut in a surface.
ℹ Trong tiếng Việt, 'vết' thường được dùng như một loại từ cho các dấu vết trên bề mặt, vì vậy bạn không cần thêm 'cái' hay 'chiếc' vào trước 'vết khía'.
- in the nick of time
- When I imagin man fraughted with al the commodities may be wiſhed; […] I finde him to ſinke vnder the burthen of his eaſe, and perceive him altogether vnable to beare ſo pure, ſo conſtant, and ſo vniverſall a ſenſualitie. Truely he flies when he is even vpon the nicke, and naturally haſtneth to eſcape it, as from [a] ſtep whereon he cannot ſtay or containe himſelfe, and feareth to ſinke into it.
- 2.
vết khía
A small cut in a surface.
ℹ Từ này mang tính chuyên môn cao trong ngành in ấn, không dùng để chỉ vết thương trên da người.
- A nick is a hollow cast crossways in the shanks of types, to make a distinction readily between differnt sorts and sizes; and to enable the compositor to perceive quickly the bottom of the letter as it lies in the case, when composing; as nicks are always cast on that side of the shank on which the bottom of the face of the letter is placed. A great deal of inconvenience frequently arises, owing to the founders casting different founts of types with a similar nick in each.
- The types are of the usual thickness and height. In the centre of each type, in the front, is a deep nick of a dovetail shape, which fits upon a metal edge, so that the type cannot be displaced. But of 111 letters which are required in the fount, each letter has two, three, or four other nicks cut at right angles, the nicks of no one letter being the same as another.
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tiếng chạm nhẹ
Senses connoting something small.
ℹ Trong ngữ cảnh thể thao, 'nick' thường chỉ sự va chạm rất nhỏ khiến bóng đổi hướng hoặc phát ra âm thanh đặc trưng.
- Just as a judge may mistakenly believe in the credibility of a clever liar, thereby reaching an 'incorrect decision', an umpire dealing with the blur of a fast bowler and listening for a nick of the bat, or lifting his eyes quickly from the bowler's front foot to follow the flight and pitch of the ball to determine if the batter is out LBW [leg before wicket], can easily be mistaken.
- The umpire heard a nick of the ball against the bat before catching it.Trọng tài đã nghe thấy tiếng chạm nhẹ của bóng vào gậy trước khi bắt bóng.
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chỗ đứt gãy
Senses connoting something small.
ℹ Trong ngữ cảnh sinh học phân tử, 'nick' chỉ sự đứt gãy một liên kết phosphodiester trên một mạch đơn của DNA, khác với 'gap' là sự thiếu hụt một đoạn nucleotide.
- Analysis of the effect of temperature on the polymerization reaction with nicked and gapped DNA substrates in Mn²⁺ (8) [...] reveals identical values of activation energy (Eₐ) and Q₁₀, indicating that the frequency of productive interactions of polymerase β with 3′-hydroxyl termini at nicks and gaps is indistinguishable and suggesting that localized destabilization of the 5′-terminated DNA strand at the nick site does not contribute significantly to the rate-determining step(s) of the synthetic reaction.
- The double-stranded insert and linearized vector are denatured, and the resulting single strands of DNA anneal with their overlapping ends and extend using each other as a template to form double-stranded circular plasmids with only two nicks, one on each single strand. [...] Lastly, the nicks are covalently closed upon transformation into E. coli using its natural repair processes.
- 5.
vết khía
Senses connoting something small.
⚠ Học sinh hay dùng 'một vết khía nhỏ' với nghĩa là 'một góc nhỏ'; đúng phải là 'một vết khía' khi nói về vết cắt.
ℹ Trong tiếng Việt, 'vết khía' dùng để chỉ vết cắt nông trên bề mặt vật cứng, không dùng cho các góc tường hay không gian hẹp.
- Spin is a major feature of real tennis – because of it, some of the slowest shots can be the hardest to return. [...] Strokes played into the "nick" (the corner of the floor and the wall) and aggressive drives into the dedans, the winning gallery, or the grille are unreturnable.
- He accidentally made a nick on the wooden table surface.Anh ấy vô tình làm một vết khía trên mặt bàn gỗ.
- 6.
tình trạng
Often in the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition, state.
⚠ Người học hay dịch nhầm 'in good nick' thành 'trong vết cắt tốt', điều này sai vì 'nick' ở đây chỉ tình trạng chứ không phải vết cắt.
ℹ Cụm từ này chủ yếu dùng trong tiếng Anh Anh và các nước thuộc khối Thịnh vượng chung, không phổ biến trong tiếng Anh Mỹ.
- The car I bought was cheap and in good nick.
- [F]urther south in Kent, there was St. Mildred, whose mother [Domne Eafe], in 670, founded the minster that still stands there in good nick, with nine nuns who are an ever-present help in trouble to all religions and none.