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Cut small notches at the corners of the fabric.
The tool has a notch for prying out nails.
The town is on the other side of the notch.
They turned the volume up several notches.
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Occasionally, you might hear a child ask for a "napple," as in "I would like a napple," mistaking the phrase "an apple" for "a napple." A similar error is believed to be behind notch, which may have resulted from a misdivision of "an otch." (Otch is a noun that is assumed to have existed in earlier English as a borrowing of Middle French oche, meaning "an incision made to keep a record.") Notch would not be alone in developing from such a mistake. The words newt and nickname were formed, respectively, from misdivisions of "an ewte" and "an ekename." Going in the other direction, umpire first appears in Middle English as oumpere, a mistaken rendering of "a noumpere."
Notch the ends so that they fit together.
He notched his fifth victory this year.
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: a small cut that is shaped like a V and that is made on an edge or a surface
: a narrow passage between mountains
: a slightly higher or lower level in a series of levels that measure something
: to make a small cut in (something, such as wood) : to make a notch in (something)
: to achieve or get (something)
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