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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 |