- notch
- I(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)n. nick, gut, gash, score; groove, rut, pit, pock; cleft, dent, dint, indentation; dimple; defile, pass, gap, opening, hole; serrature, tooth; crenel, scallop; embrasure, battlement, machicolation, castellation; tally, mark, degree, calibration, step, peg. —v. t. nick, cut, gash, score, dent, indent, jag; scarify; crimp, scallop; crenulate; tally, calibrate, mark (in degrees), peg. See angularity, indication, interval, furrow.II(Roget's IV) n. v.III(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.nick, gouge, groove, cleft, slice, scratch, crenel. see cutIV(Roget's Thesaurus II) I noun Informal. One of the units in a course, as on an ascending or descending scale: degree, grade, level, peg, point, rung, stage, step. See BIG. II verb Informal. To gain (a point or points) in a game or contest: post1, score, tally. See DO.
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