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Words related to nail

Related / Similar Words: complete, collar, apprehend, arrest, pick up, nab, cop, smash, boom, blast, pinpoint, breeze through, ace, pass with flying colors, sweep through, sail through, nail down, peg

Definition:

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

horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits;

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

complete a pass;

take into custody; "the police nabbed the suspected criminals";

attach something somewhere by means of nails; "nail the board onto the wall";

hit hard; "He smashed a 3-run homer";

locate exactly; "can you pinpoint the position of the enemy?"; "The chemists could not nail the identity of the chromosome";

succeed at easily; "She sailed through her exams"; "You will pass with flying colors"; "She nailed her astrophysics course";

succeed in obtaining a position; "He nailed down a spot at Harvard";

See Also: pin down, peg down, nail down, narrow down, narrow, specify

Hyponyms: brad, clout nail, clout, doornail, eightpenny nail, fourpenny nail, hobnail, sixpenny nail, spike, staple, stub nail, tack, tenpenny nail, fingernail, toenail

Part Meronyms: integumentary system, digit, dactyl

Derivational Morphology: completion, pass completion, bull, cop, copper, fuzz, pig, pickup, apprehension, arrest, catch, collar, pinch, taking into custody, apprehender, nailer, blast, knock, bash, bang, smash, belt, smasher, speck, pinpoint, ace, adept, champion, sensation, maven, mavin, virtuoso, genius, hotshot, star, superstar, whiz, whizz, wizard, wiz

Anagrams: INLA, anil

Language Translations:
Afrikaans: nael and spyker		Albanian: gozhdë and thua
Bosnian: klin and nokat		Breton: ivin and tach and tachañ
Catalan: clau and ungla		Chinese: 钉子
Croatian: nokat and čavao		Danish: nagle and negl
Dutch: nagel and nagelen		Esperanto: ungo
Estonian: küüs and nael		Finnish: kynsi and naula and naulata
French: clou and clouer and ongle		Galician: unlla
German: festnageln and Nagel		Hindi: कील and नाख़ुन
Hungarian: köröm and szög		Icelandic: nagli and nögl
Indonesian: kuku		Interlingua: clavar and clavo and ungula
Italian: chiodo and inchiodare and unghia		Japanese: くぎ
Korean: 못		Latin: clavus and unguis
Latvian: nagla and nags		Maltese: difer and musmar
Norwegian: negl and spiker		Persian: ناخن
Polish: gwóźdź and paznokieć and wbijać		Portuguese: pregar and prego and unha
Romanian: cui and unghie		Russian: гвоздь and ноготь and прибивать
Slovak: klinec and necht		Slovene: noht and pribiti and žebelj
Spanish: clavetear and clavo and uña		Swedish: nagel and spik and spika
Tagalog: kuko and pako		Telugu: గోరు and మేకు

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