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Meaning nail meaning

What does nail mean?
Definitions in simple English

nail Noun

— A nail is a small, long, thin sharp metal thing for holding wood together. People put it into the wood by hitting it with a hammer. — A nail is the thick, hard part at the ends of fingers and toes. I broke the top off my finger nail and it was very painful.

nail Verb

— If you nail something to something else, you use a nail to join them. — When someone gets an idea just right, we say they nailed it or "hit the nail on the head". I think you've nailed the reason why this isn't working.

nail

— verb attach something somewhere by means of nails nail the board onto the wall — noun horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits — noun a thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener — verb (= nab) take into custody the police nabbed the suspected criminals — verb (= smash) hit hard He smashed a 3-run homer — noun a former unit of length for cloth equal to 1/16 of a yard — verb (= complete) complete a pass — verb (= pinpoint) locate exactly can you pinpoint the position of the enemy? The chemists could not nail the identity of the chromosome — verb (= nail down) succeed in obtaining a position He nailed down a spot at Harvard — verb (= pass with flying colors, sail through) succeed at easily She sailed through her exams You will pass with flying colors She nailed her astrophysics course

Synonyms nail synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as nail?

nail English » English

claw fingernail spike toenail peg tack pin hammer talon screw nail down fasten smash pound needle nab hoof unguis knock hook fuck finger nail boom blast arrest sweep through stud strike stake sprig spear sew sail through report push in pinpoint pick up pass with flying colors nails nail up lock hit fix finger-nail drive in drive cop complete collar button

Topics nail topics

What do people use nail to talk about?
Work and occupation Occupation

Working with wood
Person Body Limb

Finger, toe
Work and occupation Tool

Fastening tool
Physical actions Arrange

Join, attach
Daily life Adornment

Care for the fingernails
Language and thought Emotion Feel good Interested

Excited
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad Afraid

Nervous
Daily life Adornment

Cosmetics

Conjugation nail conjugation

How do you conjugate nail?

nail · verb

Examples nail examples

How do I use nail in a sentence?

Simple sentences

He scratched his arm with the nail.
I successfully gave up nail biting on my own.
The nail that sticks out gets hammered.
To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.
We found a nail stuck in the tire.
Drive the nail into the board.
The nail went through the wall.
I caught my sweater on that nail.
I'm looking for a lipstick to go with this nail polish.
I tore my jacket on a nail.
The nail tore his jacket.
Have I hit the nail on the head?
Nail polish remover stinks a lot.
Nail polish is as interesting as Buddhism.
Nail polish is useless: no one looks at nails anyway.
I wonder if they don't have meetings anymore where strong words fly and everyone goes at each other tooth and nail.
The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.
He drove in a nail with his hammer.
He drove a nail into the board.
One nail drives out another.

Movie subtitles

I like your nail varnish.
Would you like a pair of nail scissors for Christmas?
I can drive a nail at 30 paces.
If that old cow comes here again, I'll whack her into the floor like a nail.
Why, the next one I get I'll nail down, if I have to marry her.
I got to hand it to you, baby, you almost hit the nail right on the head.
The whole town has been deader then a door nail for over thirty years.
You're gonna nail me every time I step out of line and sock me to the limit.
Do you think a nail file would help?
Give me that nail file.
If we can nail that bird, the whole works will fold up from the inside.
Did you nail them?
Some are nail biters.
I'II nail more rustlers than you.
Shoot, I broke a nail!
What a sight you'll be. Give me that nail file.
The shilling or the nail?
I had a much nicer voice till I ran a nail through it.
You ran a nail through it!
You set out to nail him, and.
It was a nail in the taxi.
You told us you cut your hand on a nail in the taxi.
You said you ripped it on a nail in a taxi. Is that right? Yes.
But it's the only way we can nail him.
We can't. They'll nail us for busting in this car.
If I leave here, they nail me.
Casiano, when my father hears that you have been racing his bestjumper, he'll nail your ears to the stable door.
It's how to nail them.
You drove a nail in the wall and knocked my mirror down.
I'll fetch a hammer and a nail.
What color nail polish does she use?
Uh, what color nail polish does she use?
It's about time. I got a nail in my shoe.

News and current affairs

They were like a young boy with a hammer who thinks that every problem resembles a nail.
So, while inflation-targeting central banks worked hard to nail down inflation expectations in goods and services, they made no effort to influence asset-price expectations.
But you empathize with his position: you will be pilloried in the same way if you don't nail down your theory with the best arguments possible and marginalize your opponents so that they have neither theological nor scientific reasons to attack you.
And the euro's appreciation in recent years - driven in part by the European Central Bank's excessively tight monetary policy - was the final nail in the competitiveness coffin.
Financial-market participants are fighting tooth and nail not to pay their fair share, putting forward a number of arguments against an FTT to camouflage their resistance.
Surrounded by hostile neighbors, such as Chinese, Mongols, and Manchus in the north and Japanese across the sea, Koreans have struggle tooth and nail for thousands of years to retain their ethnic, linguistic, cultural, and political identity.
If all you have to work with is a hammer, as the saying goes, every problem looks like a nail.
And, when some of the IMF's largest debtors (Brazil and Argentina) began to prepay their debts a few years ago with no new borrowers in sight, it looked like the final nail in the coffin had been struck.
Recent developments in molecular biology have put the final nail in the coffin of traditional genetic determinism.
The final nail in the coffin was the appreciation of the euro between 2002 and 2008.
But Gates had hit the nail on the head.
For a long time, Merkel fought this new EU tooth and nail, because she knows how unpopular it is in Germany - and thus how politically dangerous it is to her electoral prospects.
While I do not believe that a West Bank-Jordan confederation could ever be a viable option, it might be the last nail in the coffin of a two-state solution.

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