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notch
[ noch ]
noun
- an angular or V -shaped cut, indentation, or slit in an object, surface, or edge.
- a cut or nick made in a stick or other object for record, as in keeping a tally.
- New England and Upstate New York. a deep, narrow opening or pass between mountains; gap; defile.
- Informal. a step, degree, or grade:
This camera is a notch better than the other.
- Metallurgy. a taphole in a blast furnace:
iron notch; cinder notch.
verb (used with object)
- to cut or make a notch in.
- to record by notches:
He notched each kill on the stick.
- to score, as in a game:
He notched another win.
notch
/ nɒtʃ /
noun
- a V-shaped cut or indentation; nick
- a cut or nick made in a tally stick or similar object
- a narrow pass or gorge
- informal.a step or level (esp in the phrase a notch above )
verb
- to cut or make a notch in
- to record with or as if with a notch
- informal.usually foll by up to score or achieve
the team notched up its fourth win
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Other Words From
- notchy adjective
- un·notched adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of notch1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of notch1
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Idioms and Phrases
- notch up / down, to move up or down or increase or decrease by notches or degrees:
The temperature has notched up another degree.
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Example Sentences
About two weeks before your gathering, though, it’s time to take your efforts up a notch.
Take your kitchen game up a notch when you invest in creative cookware.
However, there are certain things you can do to take your search engine optimization a notch up with Bing.
Instead, use those patterns as signals for when to ramp up activities or take things down a notch.
Billings suggested that it might be possible to store information about people as notches in the sides of cards.
Now they are a notch on a belt, and the savior can feel good about themselves.
Can you imagine Superman being handed over to a writer just a notch above amateur?
And from the start, with top-notch production values certainly upgraded from a “YouTube video,” Alpha House did.
With top-notch designers, developers, and producers, they can even transform their own platforms.
But while they have been taken down a notch, giants like Goldman Sachs still tower over their regulators.
There must be a fly-wheel, with a notch to carry the rope, and also a small notch wheel on the drum-axle.
The sides of the notch were steep, and the boys rode through it in single file, Matt taking the lead.
The ridge was broken by a notch, and the road crawled through the opening and into the defile.
Matt had just time to catch a glimpse of a rock rushing down the side of the notch.
In less than a quarter of an hour afterward he reached the notch, Matt wheeling into it close at his heels.
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