Notch on your belt - A success or achievement that might help you in the future is a notch on your belt.
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Take it up a notch - If you take it up a notch, you increase the effort or intensity exerted in a situation
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Top notch - If something is top notch, it's excellent, of the highest quality or standard.
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In literature:
Sometimes the notch is very slight.
"Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc." by George Francis Atkinson
Now push to the right one notch the pointer which reduces the size of the hole.
"If You Don't Write Fiction" by Charles Phelps Cushing
If the sticks vary in size, the larger ones should be notched down on the transom so as to bring the tops in the same plane.
"Manual of Military Training" by James A. Moss
They mounted and rode toward the notch in the hills that had been pointed out to the ranger.
"Brand Blotters" by William MacLeod Raine
The breeze came pouring over the prairie from the far southwest where the purple notches stood sentinel.
"Winning the Wilderness" by Margaret Hill McCarter
The sapling, jarred out of the notch, springing upward!
"David and the Phoenix" by Edward Ormondroyd
In the bush, I was to keep my eye on the notches in the trees, and follow them.
"The Story of John G. Paton" by James Paton
Notch about four or five back logs with the plain, rounded notch already described and illustrated by Fig.
"Shelters, Shacks and Shanties" by D.C. Beard
Ward's literary efforts, along about that time, consisted of cutting notches in the window-sill beside his bunk.
"The Ranch at the Wolverine" by B. M. Bower
When breakfast was over, Mrs McQueen brought a stick with notches cut in it and gave it to Mr McQueen.
"The Irish Twins" by Lucy Fitch Perkins
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In poetry:
He carved a flute of elder green,
And notched it well and true,
Then pursed his lips and puffed his cheeks
And merrily he blew.
"Pan In The Orchard" by Maurice Thompson
We need not waste our school-boy art
To gild this notch of Time;--
Forgive me if my wayward heart
Has throbbed in artless rhyme.
"At A Birthday Festival" by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Year by year, like milestones placed,
Mark the record Friendship traced.
Prisoned in the walls of time
Life has notched itself in rhyme.
"Programme" by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Not man nor demigod could put together
The scraps of rusted reverie, the wheels
Of notched tin platitudes concerning weather,
Perfume, politics, and fixed ideals.
"Sonnet : To Eva" by Sylvia Plath
Of an old tree, whose notched and scanty leaves
Repeat the tale of woe,
And quiver day and night,
Till the snow cometh, and a cold shroud weaves,
Whiter than that below.
"The House Of Youth" by Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard
Genius, that wind-worn reed, unsightly, rude,
Notched by some strong, untutored artisan;
That golden lyre, that lute of jeweled wood,
That syrinx blown by furry lips of Pan!
"To A Realist" by Maurice Thompson
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The lessons read like those from UC Berkeley, Wellesley or another top-notch liberal arts college.
Top notch from top down.
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Islander notches another round of golf better than his age.
He notched one sack for a 2-yard loss and forced a fumble on it.
The Mets notched five hits and walked four times.
This is the 10th Anniversary batch, and things have been kicked up a notch.
To make installing the C-notch easier, a scraper and paint thinner was used to remove the thick, factory undercoat from that area of the frame.
Model and reality television host Heidi Klum is adding another notch to her resume -- this time designing baby wear and accessories for the Babies R Us chain.
It's one of the hottest spots on the Central Coast for a good seafood dinner, but Tuesday, it's stepping it up a notch or two to save lives as well.
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In science:
Then ι(β ) is obtained by tagging α plain at a and notched at b.
Positivity for cluster algebras from surfaces
So given a tagged triangulation T , let us perform such changes at every puncture where all ends of T are notched.
Positivity for cluster algebras from surfaces
Given a surface (S, M ) with a puncture p and a tagged arc γ , we let both γ (p) and γ p denote the arc obtained from γ by changing its notching at p. (So if γ is not incident to p, γ (p) = γ .) If p and q are two punctures, we let γ (pq) denote the arc obtained from γ by changing its notching at both p and q .
Positivity for cluster algebras from surfaces
If γ has an endpoint at a puncture, then Lγ spirals into a: counterclockwise if γ is tagged plain at a, and clockwise if it is notched.
Positivity for cluster algebras from surfaces
We present three slightly different formulas, based on whether the cluster variable corresponds to a tagged arc with 0, 1, or 2 notched ends.
Positivity for cluster algebras from surfaces
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