What's the difference between gouge and nick?

Gouge


Definition:

  • (n.) A chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.; a similar instrument, with curved edge, for turning wood.
  • (n.) A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve.
  • (n.) An incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc. from leather, paper, etc.
  • (n.) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein aud the solid vein.
  • (n.) The act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge.
  • (n.) Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) John, who has just been released from prison on licence after serving four years for gouging a man’s eye out , admits: “I used to see Tyson on the television.
  • (2) Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have accused Turing of price-gouging.
  • (3) There was a deep gouge across the back of his head and blood was welling through his copper- coloured hair.
  • (4) Make a hole in the radius with a small gouge with insertion of the pin to the fracture site and then drive it into the proximal fragment.
  • (5) How it gouges money from those who don’t own only to put it in the pockets of those who do.
  • (6) The following technical devices have been adopted: -- curved unilateral incision into deep fascia --interlaminar space widening by chisels and gouges, avoiding the use of rongeurs -- sodium succinate methylprednisolone injection into dural sac.
  • (7) "I bought her, and I still can't believe this, I might as well have gouged out my own eyeballs with a rusty spoon, but I bought her a personalised number plate which was M155 LTD. Miss Living The Dream.
  • (8) The crumpled metal cockpit floor featured large gouges.
  • (9) Olympe de Gouges, born in 1748, led in Paris, the brilliant and dissolute life of a rather mediocre writer and a passionate feminist, demanding for women the right to go into politics.
  • (10) Their white tents stood near the brown earth gouged by the armoured trucks that had carried them there – the closest point to Mosul they had reached before an assault on Iraq’s second largest city.
  • (11) Topology favoring attachment was inherent in 0.45-mum filters and was produced in plastic by gouging irregular excavations 10 to 15 micrometer deep.
  • (12) Karen McVeigh Governor Christie (@GovChristie) We have activated temporary hotlines to report price gouging.
  • (13) Greedy, gouging bastards, depriving students of their last few pennies in a relentless quest for profit.
  • (14) Yemen's humanitarian crisis leaves a million people in dire straits – in pictures Read more Maurer, who recently visited Yemen and Iran to negotiate broader humanitarian access, said air raids had gouged craters in the streets of the Yemeni capital Sana’a.
  • (15) Crash patterns-such as cut and damaged vegetation, gouges, debris scatter, burn areas, etc.,-and their spatial relations can be very effectively evaluated by the analysis of stereo aerial photographs.
  • (16) He has people eating their sons in pies, men with their eyes gouged out, and merciless sexual jealousy.
  • (17) With a chisel or a gouge, cuts are made in the cortical surface of the bone on both sides of the fracture line, and numerous scales are lifted but remain attached at the base, like the petals of a flower.
  • (18) In what will come as welcome news to defenders across the land, chippy Chelsea striker Diego Costa may also be leaving these shores to gouge, elbow, snarl and kick his way around his old La Liga stamping ground.
  • (19) The worst of the episodes involved Mousa Dembélé, who gouged at Diego Costa’s eyes during a wider mêlée sparked by a confrontation between Danny Rose and Willian.
  • (20) ); (2) exploitation of bark surface insects and the use of trunks as a platform to locate terrestrial prey (Saguinus fuscicollis, S. nigricollis, and Callimico); (3) manipulative foraging and bark stripping to locate concealed insects and small vertebrates (Leontopithecus); and (4) tree gouging and year-round exudate feeding (many Callithrix).

Nick


Definition:

  • (n.) An evil spirit of the waters.
  • (n.) A notch cut into something
  • (n.) A score for keeping an account; a reckoning.
  • (n.) A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution.
  • (n.) A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; nicks in china.
  • (n.) A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.
  • (v. t.) To make a nick or nicks in; to notch; to keep count of or upon by nicks; as, to nick a stick, tally, etc.
  • (v. t.) To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in.
  • (v. t.) To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
  • (v. t.) To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.
  • (v. t.) 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).
  • (v. t.) To nickname; to style.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When irradiated circular DNA, previously nicked by T4 endonuclease V, is briefly exposed to elevated temperature, the DAN becomes susceptible to the action of exonuclease V, and pyrimidine dimers are selectively released.
  • (2) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
  • (3) Nick Robins, head of the Climate Change Centre at HSBC, said: "If you think about low-carbon energy only in terms of carbon, then things look tough [in terms of not using coal].
  • (4) "For a few it will feel like having your wallet nicked with the mugger then handing you a few bob back to buy a pint.
  • (5) Moreover, nick-translated [32-P]-pCS75, which is a pUC9 derivative containing a PstI insert with L and S subunit genes (for RuBisCO) from A. nidulans, hybridizes at very high stringency with restriction fragments from chromosomal DNA of untransformed and transformed cells as does the 32P-labeled PstI fragment itself.
  • (6) Nick Mabey, head of the E3G climate thinktank in London, said without US action there were risks talks would stall.
  • (7) One enzyme (called all-type) can nick all eight base mismatches with different efficiencies.
  • (8) Edman degradation of the intact A subunit of Shiga toxin indicated that the A subunit was nicked between Ala253 and Ser254 to form A1 and A2 fragments linked by a disulfide bond.
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats have suffered a dramatic slump in support as a result of their role in the coalition and are now barely ahead of the Greens with an average rating of about 8% in the polls.
  • (10) Nick Nuttall, a spokesman for UNEP, said the latest findings should encourage more governments to follow moves by some politicians to invest billions of dollars in clean energy and efficiency as a way of curbing greenhouse gases.
  • (11) After Paris, Europe may never feel as free again | Nick Cohen Read more On Friday evening six separate attacks took place across Paris in what the French president, François Hollande, described as an “act of war”.
  • (12) A Tory planning minister has admitted that the coalition's new wave of garden cities would not have to contain a single affordable home, despite Nick Clegg's claims that they would offer low-cost accommodation and help solve the UK's housing crisis.
  • (13) Nick Clegg, who chairs the cabinet's home affairs committee, is said to have backed May's proposed package.
  • (14) Nick Clegg sounded exasperated, but it is Lib Dem convention to let members make the party’s policies by democratic vote.
  • (15) Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband accepted the Tory idea of a royal charter to establish a new press regulatory body but insisted it be underpinned in statute and said there should be guarantees of the body's independence.
  • (16) These bands were radiolabelled by subjecting the DNA--protein complexes to nick--translation in the presence of [32P]--dCTP, followed by prolonged digestion with excess bovine DNase I. Amino acid sequence analysis shows that these bands contain DNase I.
  • (17) We had a brief conversation and I said to him he was acting from high honour here, and I said how sorry I was this wasn’t happening in three or four years time..because Barry is a man of honour..and I think he is a very capable premier and I think he has been missed.” Asked whether he had ever met Nick di Girolamo , the prime minister said both he and Mr di Girolamo attended a lot of functions, and “I don’t for a moment say I have never met him but I don’t recall it.” But former federal Liberal MP Ross Cameron sounded much more sceptical about O’Farrell’s memory lapse when speaking to Sky News.
  • (18) The Km values of the substrates for both native and nicked enzyme were identical, as was the state of aggregation (dimeric) of the two enzyme species.
  • (19) Repair not only implies the closing of DNA nicks, but very likely the degradation of the BLM molecules intercalated in the DNA interrupting the reactions responsible for the generation of free radicals.
  • (20) Replays cast doubt on the penalty decision, the ball having been touched by the Australian replacement scrum-half, Nick Phipps, before the referee, Craig Joubert, adjudged the Scottish prop Jon Welsh caught it while standing in an offside position.