Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: nail
IPA transcription: [n'eɪl]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: nail
    Meaning: horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits
  • Synonyms: nail
    Meaning: a thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: nail
    Meaning: attach something somewhere by means of nails; "nail the board onto the wall"
  • Synonyms: collar, nail, apprehend, arrest, pick_up, nab, cop
    Meaning: take into custody; "the police nabbed the suspected criminals"
  • Synonyms: smash, nail, boom, blast
    Meaning: hit hard; "He smashed a 3-run homer"
Usage examples
  • They might nail me for perjury besides.”
  • The room was empty, and the sword hanging from a nail.
  • A white spot in the nail, when it comes, means a present.
  • You've hit the right nail upon the head, and are as safe here as you could be.
  • I have in my possession a nail, half iron and half silver, which I made myself.
  • A nail of this description was, for a long time, in the cabinet of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.
  • All that you have seen to-night has been make-believe; I'm not the woman to let the black of my nail suffer for such a camel, much less die!"
  • TALC SCHIST consists of quartz and TALC, a light-colored magnesian mineral of greasy feel, and so soft that it can be scratched with the thumb nail.
  • Then that simple Talus dipped himself in the sea, till it hissed, and roared, and smoked; and came and knelt before Medeia, and showed her the secret nail.
  • For they say that he has but one vein in all his body, filled with liquid fire; and that this vein is closed with a nail; but I know not where that nail is placed.