ink vs nick

ink

verb
  • To apply ink to; to cover or smear with ink. 

  • To sign (a contract or similar document). 

  • To apply a tattoo to (someone). 

  • to eject ink (sense 3) 

noun
  • Tattoo work. 

  • Publicity. 

  • Cheap red wine. 

  • The black or dark-colored fluid ejected by squid, octopus etc, as a protective strategy. 

  • A pigment (or dye)-based fluid used for writing, printing etc. 

  • A particular type, color or container of this fluid. 

nick

verb
  • To make a cut at the side of the face. 

  • To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way. 

  • To make ragged or uneven, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to deface, to mar. 

  • To steal. 

  • To arrest. 

  • To make a crosscut or cuts on the underside of (the tail of a horse, in order to make the animal carry it higher). 

noun
  • The point where the wall of the court meets the floor. 

  • One of the single-stranded DNA segments produced during nick translation. 

  • Often in the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition, state. 

  • A police station or prison. 

  • A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch. 

How often have the words ink and nick occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )