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Definitions: NICKING |
NICKINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Nick Transitive verb1. Small coal produced in making the nicking. 2. The cutting made by the hewer at the side of the face. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Metallurgy | The rough or jagged edge caused by wear on a shear blade. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. The cutting of a vertical groove in a seam to liberate coal after it has been holed or undercut b. Used in wire-rope terminology to describe the internal crosscutting of wires within a rope c. The chipping of coal along the rib of an entry or room, which is usually the first indication of a squeeze d. A vertical cutting or shearing one side of a face of coal. Also calledcut; cutting. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: NICKING |
| Specialty definitions using "NICKING": nick setter, NICKING-MACHINE OPERATOR. (references) |
| "NICKING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 98.08% of the time. "NICKING" is used about 52 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 98.08% | 51 | 47,619 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.92% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 52 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "NICKING": lick-nicking. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
av nicking | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "NICKING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 刻痕于 (Nicked). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | kerbend, einschneidend (cutting in, drastic, far reaching, gashing, incising, radical, trenchant). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 새김눈을 냄. (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | giarrey (abbreviate, abridge, abridging, axe, beat out, bob the tail; severance, bob; severance, carve, castrate, cleave, clip, clip as words; slicing, clip; slicing, condensation, condense, condensing, crop, crop as tail, curtail, curtailment, cut, cut away, cut back, cut short, cut up, disconnect, disconnection, dissect, erupt, eruption, flux, gash, hack, hew, incise, incision, infliction, intersect, intersection, lance, levy, lop, mark out, prune, pruning, puncture, reaping, scission, section, sever, shear, sink, slash, slit, snip, truncate), cur beam ayn. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ickingnay incisivo (incisive, incisor, trenchant). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "NICKING": finicking, panicking, picnicking, snicking. (additional references) | |
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"NICKING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Neckinger, nicein, nicin, snicking. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-i-i-k-n-n" | |
-1 letter: inking. | |
-2 letters: icing, kinin. | |
-3 letters: gink, king, nick. | |
-4 letters: cig, gin, ick, ink, inn, kin. | |
-5 letters: in. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-i-i-k-n-n" | |
+1 letter: chinking, clinking, nickling, snicking, zincking. | |
+2 letters: anticking, crinkling, finicking, nickeling, nickering, panicking, sickening, unpicking. | |
+3 letters: anticaking, chickening, clinkering, dezincking, nickelling, nicknaming, nitpicking, picnicking, quickening, snickering, thickening, unsticking. | |
+4 letters: handpicking, jackknifing, kinescoping, linebacking, pinpricking, sickeningly, thickenings. | |
+5 letters: interlocking, linebackings, misreckoning. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 49 43 4B 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. .. -.-. -.- .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01001001 01000011 01001011 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N I C K I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0049 0043 004B 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)48433745434841 |
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