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Nail

noun

1.

Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.

2.

A thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener.

3.

A former unit of length for cloth equal to 1/16 of a yard.

verb

(past & past part. nailed; pres. part. nailing)

1.

Attach something somewhere by means of nails.

2.

Take into custody. Synonyms: apprehend, arrest, collar, cop, nab, pick up.

3.

Hit hard. Synonyms: blast, boom, smash.

4.

Succeed in obtaining a position. Synonyms: nail down, peg.

5.

Succeed at easily. Synonyms: ace, breeze through, pass with flying colors, sail through, sweep through. "You will pass with flying colors" , "She nailed her astrophysics course"

6.

Locate exactly. Synonym: pinpoint. "The chemists could not nail the identity of the chromosome"

7.

Complete a pass. Synonym: complete.

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"Nail" Quotes from Famous Books

... were shoeing yesterday, your high nobility, they drove a nail into Pigeon's hoof. The vet. put on clay and vinegar; they are leading him apart now. And also, your honour, Artemyev got drunk yesterday, and the lieutenant ordered him to be put in the limber of a ...

— The Party and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov

... There had been a very amusing instance recently. One of his dancing girls named Malati had refused recently to sing and dance her best before a man to whom Gungadhura had designed to make a present of her; but the mere preliminaries of removing a toe-nail behind the scenes had changed her mind ...

— Guns of the Gods • Talbot Mundy

... Gulliver, "is taller by about the breadth of my nail than any of his court, which alone is enough to strike an awe into ...

— Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... that it flew into his mouth agape are sorely mistaken. Many a time have I sat by his side while he pored over his books, and I could see how he set to work in right earnest when once he had cast away sports and pastime. Thus with three mighty blows he would smite the nail home, which a weaker hand could not do with twenty. For whole weeks he might be idle and about divers matters which had no concern with schooling; and then, of a sudden, set to work; and it would so wholly possess his soul that he would not have seen a stone ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... quite impossible to sort out the arms and legs and wildly waving feet and decide to whom they belonged. The boys were up first, and soon had the girls on their feet, some of them speechless from laughter. The four little Blossoms came up smiling, and though Dot had a scratch on her finger from a nail in some one's shoe, it was trifling and ...

— Four Little Blossoms and Their Winter Fun • Mabel C. Hawley

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