nail

The thin, horny plate at the ends of fingers and toes on humans and some other animals.

When I'm nervous I bite my nails.

The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.

The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.

The claw of a bird or other animal.

A spike-shaped metal fastener used for joining wood or similar materials. The nail is generally driven through two or more layers of material by means of impacts from a hammer or other device. It is then held in place by friction.

A round pedestal on which merchants once carried out their business, such as the four nails outside The Exchange, Bristol.

An archaic English unit of length equivalent to ¹⁄₂₀ of an ell or ¹⁄₁₆ of a yard (2+¹⁄₄ inches or 5.715 cm).

(transitive)To fix (an object) to another object using a nail.

He nailed the placard to the post.

(intransitive)To drive a nail.

He used the ax head for nailing.

Đồng nghĩa: hammer

(transitive)To stud or boss with nails, or as if with nails.

(slang)To catch.

Đồng nghĩa: arrest, collar, nick, apprehend, begripe, capture, fang, grasp, get, gripe, lay hold of, rape, seize, take, take hold

(slang, transitive)To expose as a sham.

(slang, transitive)To accomplish (a task) completely and successfully.

I really nailed that test.

Đồng nghĩa: ace, fullbring, fulfill

(slang, transitive)To hit (a target) effectively with some weapon.

(slang, transitive, vulgar)Of a male, to engage in sexual intercourse with.

Đồng nghĩa: dick, pound, rail, screw, Formal terms, bed, coit, coitize, dight, enjoy, feague, go in unto, go to bed with, have, know, lie by, lie with, love, mount, occupy, penetrate, season, seduce, sleep with, take, Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with", Informal and slang terms, ball, bang, bauf, beep, be with, bone, boff, boink, bonk, boom-boom, dick, diddle, dig out, do, doink, drill, eff, expletive deleted, fill, frack, frak, frick, frig, fuck, get into someone's pants, get over on, get up in, give someone one, give someone the time, go with, have one's way with, have one's wicked way with, hit, hump, jape, jump, jump someone's bones, knob, knock, knock off, know someone in the biblical sense, lay, love up, make, nail, plough, plug, poke, pork, pound, prig, pump, ravage, ream, rock, roger, root, run through, rut, sard, schlong, screw, see to, service, shaft, shag, shelve, slay, slip it to, smash, smush, stallionize, swive, tap, tup, wap

(military) To spike, as a cannon.

(transitive)To nail down: to make certain, or confirm.

Đồng nghĩa: clinch, fix, lock down, pin down

(obsolete, slang, transitive)To steal.