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What (who) is NAIL - definition
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Nails; The nails; Nail (disambiguation); Nails (disambiguation); Nails (film)
nail
1) Cigarette - short version of coffin nail - slang from the '20s to '40s and later.
Can I bum a nail from you? I'll go buy us a pack in a little bit.
2) Hairstyle featuring an abrupt transition from longish hair on top to much shorter hair on the sides.
See that kid over there? The one with the blue t-shirt and the nail?
Can I bum a nail from you? I'll go buy us a pack in a little bit.
2) Hairstyle featuring an abrupt transition from longish hair on top to much shorter hair on the sides.
See that kid over there? The one with the blue t-shirt and the nail?
nail
(nails, nailing, nailed)
1.
A nail is a thin piece of metal with one pointed end and one flat end. You hit the flat end with a hammer in order to push the nail into something such as a wall.
A mirror hung on a nail above the washstand...
N-COUNT
2.
If you nail something somewhere, you fix it there using one or more nails.
Frank put the first plank down and nailed it in place...
They nail shut the front door...
VERB: V n prep/adv, V n with adj
3.
Your nails are the thin hard parts that grow at the ends of your fingers and toes.
Keep your nails short and your hands clean.
N-COUNT: usu poss N in pl
4.
To nail someone means to catch them and prove that they have been breaking the law. (INFORMAL)
The prosecution still managed to nail him for robberies at the homes of leading industrialists.
VERB: V n
5.
If you say that someone is as hard as nails, you mean that they are extremely tough and aggressive, either physically or in their attitude towards other people or other situations.
He's a shrewd businessman and hard as nails...
PHRASE: v-link PHR
6.
If you say that someone has hit the nail on the head, you think they are exactly right about something.
'I think it would civilize people a bit more if they had decent conditions.'-'I think you've hit the nail on the head.'
PHRASE: V inflects
7.
Nail
·noun To spike, as a cannon.
II. Nail ·noun To stud or boss with nails, or as with nails.
III. Nail ·noun The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.
IV. Nail ·noun The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.
V. Nail ·adj A measure of length, being two inches and a quarter, or the sixteenth of a yard.
VI. Nail ·noun the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes.
VII. Nail ·noun To fasten with a nail or nails; to close up or secure by means of nails; as, to nail boards to the beams.
VIII. Nail ·noun 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.
IX. Nail ·noun 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.
Examples of use of NAIL
1. As a mild nail–biter myself, I resent the prejudice against nail–biters.
2. A permanent French manicure involves the nail initially being covered with a transparent nail gel.
3. Then, the tip is emphasized with a white, light–hardening nail gel rather than with nail varnish.
4. INGROWN TOE NAIL Draw out the infection from a septic ingrown toe nail by making a poultice from bread mashed in milk, suggests Michael O‘Neill.
5. These included four reports of children who put the metal nail fastener in their mouths and the one case of the child who aspirated the nail fastener.