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Definition of 'nail'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) nail
a slender, rod-shaped piece of metal, typically having a pointed tip and a flattened head, made to be hammered into wood or other material as a fastener or support.

2.  nail
a thin, horny plate, consisting of modified epidermis, growing on the upper side of the end of a finger or toe.

3.  nail
¼ in. (6.4 cm).

4. (v.t.) nail
to fasten with a nail or nails.

5.  nail
to enclose or shut by nailing (often fol. by up).

6.  nail
to keep firmly in one place or position.

7.  nail
Informal.

8.  nail
to catch or seize.

9.  nail
to accomplish perfectly:
the only gymnast to nail the dismount.

10.  nail
nail down, to make final; settle once and for all.

11.  nail
hit the nail on the head, to say or do exactly the right thing.

Definition of 'nail'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) nail
horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits

2. (noun) nail
a thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener

3. (verb) nail
a former unit of length for cloth equal to 1/16 of a yard

4. (verb) nail
attach something somewhere by means of nails
"nail the board onto the wall"

5. (verb) collar, nail, apprehend, arrest, pick up, nab, cop
take into custody
"the police nabbed the suspected criminals"

6. (verb) smash, nail, boom, blast
hit hard
"He smashed a 3-run homer"

7. (verb) nail down, nail, peg
succeed in obtaining a position
"He nailed down a spot at Harvard"

8. (verb) breeze through, ace, pass with flying colors, sweep through, sail through, nail
succeed at easily
"She sailed through her exams"; "You will pass with flying colors"; "She nailed her astrophysics course"

9. (verb) pinpoint, nail
locate exactly
"can you pinpoint the position of the enemy?"; "The chemists could not nail the identity of the chromosome"

10. (verb) complete, nail
complete a pass

Definition of 'nail'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) nail
a pointed piece of metal with a flat top, used with a hammer to attach or hang things
a two-inch steel nail; a hammer and nails

2.  nail
a fingernail or toenail
My nails need to be cut.

3. (verb) nail
to hit a nail with a hammer
She nailed the boards together.; as he nailed it into the wall

4.  nail
to do sth successfully
He nailed his first dive.

5.  nail
to catch and punish sb for doing sth wrong
The police finally nailed him for dealing drugs.

Definition of 'nail'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) nail
a measure of length, being two inches and a quarter, or the sixteenth of a yard

2. (noun) nail
the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes

3. (noun) nail
the basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera

4. (noun) nail
the terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds

5. (noun) nail
a slender, pointed piece of metal, usually with a head, used for fastening pieces of wood or other material together, by being driven into or through them

6. (noun) nail
to fasten with a nail or nails; to close up or secure by means of nails; as, to nail boards to the beams

7. (noun) nail
to stud or boss with nails, or as with nails

8. (noun) nail
to fasten, as with a nail; to bind or hold, as to a bargain or to acquiescence in an argument or assertion; hence, to catch; to trap

9. (noun) nail
to spike, as a cannon

Translation of 'nail'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a piece of horn-like substance which grows over the ends of the fingers and toes to protect them I've broken my nail; toe-nails; Don't bite your finger-nails.
Afrikaans: nael	Arabic: ظُفْر	Bulgarian: нокът
Brazilian: unha	Czech: nehet	German: der Nagel
Danish: negl; -negl	Greek: νύχι	Spanish: uña
Estonian: küüs	Farsi: ناخن	Finnish: kynsi
French: ongle	Hebrew: צִיפּוֹרֶן	Hindi: नाखून
Croatian: nokat	Hungarian: köröm	Indonesian: kuku
Icelandic: nögl	Italian: unghia	Japanese: つめ
Korean: 손톱, 발톱	Lithuanian: nagas	Latvian: nags
Malay: kuku	Dutch: nagel	Norwegian: negl
Polish: paznokieć	Persian: ناخن	Pashto: نوك
Portuguese: unha	Romanian: unghie	Russian: ноготь
Slovak: necht	Slovenian: noht	Serbian: nokat
Swedish: nagel	Thai: เล็บ	Turkish: tırnak
Taiwanese: 指甲	Ukrainian: ніготь; кіготь	Urdu: ناخن
Vietnamese: móng	Chinese: 指甲
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