Notch

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A V-shaped cut.
  • noun. Such a cut used for keeping a record.
  • noun. A narrow pass between mountains.
  • noun. A level or degree.
  • transitive verb. To cut a notch in.
  • transitive verb. To record by or as if by making notches.
  • transitive verb. To achieve; score.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To cut a notch or notches in; indent; nick; hack; as, to notch a stick.
  • To place in a notch; fit to a string by the notch, as an arrow.
  • In cricket, to mark or score; have as score the number of.
  • noun. The posterior or lower angle, formed by the meeting of the pubic bones. Same as pubic arch.
  • noun. Same as undercut, 2.
  • To make an undercut in (a tree) preparatory to felling (it). Also undercut.
  • noun. A nick or indentation; a small hollow or nick cut or sunk in anything, as in the end of an arrow for the reception of the bowstring.
  • noun. In carpentry, a hollow cut in the face of a piece of timber for the reception of another piece.
  • noun. A narrow defile or passage between mountains; or, more properly, the entrance to such a defile, when it is nearly closed by precipices or walls of rock on either hand.
  • noun. A step or degree; a grade.
  • noun. A point in the game of cricket.
  • noun. In zoology and anatomy, an incision or incisure; an emargination: as, the interclavicular notch, the depression over the breast-bone between the prominent ends of the clavicles.
  • noun. In armor, the bouche of a shield.
  • noun. The large notch of the maxilla that forms the lateral and lower boundary of the entrance to the nasal cavity.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A hollow cut in anything; a nick; an indentation.
  • noun. A narrow passage between two elevations; a deep, close pass; a defile.
  • transitive verb. To cut or make notches in; to indent; also, to score by notches.
  • transitive verb. To fit the notch of (an arrow) to the string.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A V-shaped cut.
  • noun. Such a cut, used for keeping a record
  • noun. An indentation.
  • noun. A mountain pass; a defile
  • noun. A level or degree.
  • verb. To cut a notch in (something).
  • verb. To record (a score or similar) by making notches on something.
  • verb. To join by means of notches.
  • verb. : (transitive) To achieve (something).
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. cut or make a notch into
  • noun. a V-shaped indentation
  • verb. notch a surface to record something
  • noun. the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks
  • noun. a small cut
  • noun. a V-shaped or U-shaped indentation carved or scratched into a surface
  • Word Usage
    "Anything to take down the ELPD a notch is great in my book."
    Hypernym
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    cut  cutting  enter  put down  record  
    Rhyme
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    Boche  Scotch  botch  crotch  gotch  
    Same Context
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    aperture  catch  cavity  cleave  crack  
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