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say it: nahch
notch is a noun and verb meaning "a V-shaped indentation". It carries 6 recorded senses.
the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks
“we got through the pass before it started to snow”
a V-shaped or U-shaped indentation carved or scratched into a surface
“there were four notches in the handle of his revolver”
notch a surface to record something
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for notch come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.