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NOUN | 1 | nail | Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits |
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2 | nail | A thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener | |
3 | nail | A former unit of length for cloth equal to 1/16 of a yard | |
VERB | 1 | nail | Attach something somewhere by means of nails |
2 | nail, collar, apprehend, arrest, pick up, nab, cop | Take into custody | |
3 | nail, smash, boom, blast | Hit hard | |
4 | nail, nail down, peg | Succeed in obtaining a position | |
5 | nail, breeze through, ace, pass with flying colors, sweep through, sail through | Succeed at easily | |
6 | nail, pinpoint | Locate exactly | |
7 | nail, complete | Complete a pass |
Sounds | ney'l |
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Rhymes | ail, Airedale, airmail, and 89 more rhymes in eyl at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits. |
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Part of | integumentary system; digit, dactyl |
Parts | half-moon, lunula, lunule; matrix |
Narrower | fingernail; toenail |
Broader | horny structure, unguis |
Adjectives | ungual |
Meaning | A thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener. |
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Parts | clinch; head; nailhead; shank, stem |
Narrower | brad; clout nail, clout; doornail; eightpenny nail; fourpenny nail; hobnail; sixpenny nail; spike; staple; stub nail; tack; tenpenny nail |
Broader | fastener, fastening, holdfast, fixing |
Verbs | nail |
Meaning | A former unit of length for cloth equal to 1/16 of a yard. |
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Broader | linear unit |
Meaning | Attach something somewhere by means of nails. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something PP |
Examples | "nail the board onto the wall" |
Broader | attach |
See also | nail down |
Nouns | nail; nailer |
Meaning | Take into custody. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody |
Synonyms | collar, apprehend, arrest, pick up, nab, cop |
Broader | seize, prehend, clutch |
Meaning | Hit hard. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
Synonyms | smash, boom, blast |
Broader | hit |
Meaning | Succeed in obtaining a position. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "He nailed down a spot at Harvard" |
Synonyms | nail down, peg |
Broader | succeed, win, come through, bring home the bacon, deliver the goods |
Meaning | Succeed at easily. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "She nailed her astrophysics course" |
Synonyms | breeze through, ace, pass with flying colors, sweep through, sail through |
Broader | pass, make it |
Meaning | Locate exactly. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody PP; Somebody ----s something PP |
Examples | "The chemists could not nail the identity of the chromosome" |
Synonyms | pinpoint |
Broader | locate, turn up |
Meaning | Complete a pass. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Synonyms | complete |
Category | football, football game |
Broader | play |