What is another word for nail?
Synonyms for nail
neɪlnail
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Princeton's WordNet
nailnoun
horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits
nailnoun
a thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener
nailverb
a former unit of length for cloth equal to 1/16 of a yard
nailverb
attach something somewhere by means of nails
"nail the board onto the wall"
Synonyms:
apprehend, collar, peg, breeze through, sail through, ace, pass with flying colors, sweep through, nail down, complete, pick up, pinpoint, nab, boom, arrest, cop, blast, smashcollar, nail, apprehend, arrest, pick up, nab, copverb
take into custody
"the police nabbed the suspected criminals"
Synonyms:
quail at, cop, uplift, peck, hook, savvy, hear, complete, get, dig, percolate, hold back, glom, nail down, pass with flying colors, perk up, smash, arrest, gather up, get word, nab, snitch, boom, call for, see, find out, turn back, grasp, perk, halt, gain vigor, knock off, ace, compass, receive, sweep through, stop, sail through, get the picture, pinpoint, collar, turn around, apprehend, get a line, comprehend, lift up, peg, intoxicate, pick up, breeze through, contain, elate, catch, thieve, blast, grok, learn, get wind, hold, collect, discover, checksmash, nail, boom, blastverb
hit hard
"He smashed a 3-run homer"
Synonyms:
boom out, cop, shoot, crush, bankrupt, complete, thunder, nail down, pass with flying colors, smash, arrest, bang up, nab, din, smash up, ruin, boom, demolish, pillory, break, breeze through, ace, blare, sweep through, sail through, pinpoint, collar, apprehend, savage, peg, thrive, pick up, expand, flourish, crucify, blast, dash, knock down, shellnail down, nail, pegverb
succeed in obtaining a position
"He nailed down a spot at Harvard"
Synonyms:
peg down, sweep through, apprehend, pass with flying colors, collar, peg, blast, nab, settle, breeze through, sail through, pin down, narrow down, specify, ace, finalise, nail down, complete, pick up, pinpoint, finalize, boom, arrest, cop, narrow, smashbreeze through, ace, pass with flying colors, sweep through, sail through, nailverb
succeed at easily
"She sailed through her exams"; "You will pass with flying colors"; "She nailed her astrophysics course"
Synonyms:
sweep through, apprehend, collar, peg, breeze through, sail through, ace, pass with flying colors, nail down, complete, pick up, pinpoint, nab, boom, arrest, cop, blast, smashpinpoint, nailverb
locate exactly
"can you pinpoint the position of the enemy?"; "The chemists could not nail the identity of the chromosome"
Synonyms:
sweep through, apprehend, collar, peg, breeze through, sail through, ace, pass with flying colors, nail down, complete, pick up, pinpoint, nab, boom, arrest, cop, blast, smashcomplete, nailverb
complete a pass
Synonyms:
sweep through, fill in, collar, breeze through, dispatch, finish, fill out, discharge, sail through, peg, ace, pass with flying colors, apprehend, nail down, complete, pick up, pinpoint, nab, make out, boom, arrest, cop, blast, smash
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#64 | see | |
#77 | get | |
#272 | check | |
#424 | learn | |
#522 | complete | |
#909 | receive | |
#1038 | stop | |
#1275 | hold | |
#1618 | break | |
#1736 | hear | |
#2674 | finish | |
#2700 | contain | |
#2995 | discover | |
#3129 | expand | |
#3616 | shell | |
#3635 | catch | |
#3823 | specify | |
#3889 | narrow | |
#4363 | collect | |
#5175 | shoot | |
#5613 | hook | |
#5685 | discharge | |
#5688 | ace | |
#6422 | stud | |
#6477 | blast | |
#6667 | nail | |
#7386 | boom | |
#7523 | arrest | |
#7597 | collar | |
#7788 | dig | |
#8401 | thunder | |
#8587 | dash | |
#8623 | settle | |
#8911 | dispatch | |
#9382 | cop | |
#9792 | savage | |
#10086 | din | |
#10647 | compass | |
#11946 | peg | |
#12398 | crush | |
#13142 | grasp | |
#13346 | smash | |
#13468 | savvy | |
#13959 | halt | |
#14164 | ruin | |
#16959 | chlorine | |
#17739 | peck | |
#18549 | thrive | |
#21181 | comprehend | |
#21231 | finalize | |
#21586 | pinpoint | |
#21898 | bankrupt | |
#23713 | flourish | |
#28457 | nab | |
#30734 | uplift | |
#45245 | demolish | |
#45478 | perk | |
#45906 | hock | |
#53441 | apprehend | |
#58018 | finalise | |
#61869 | snitch | |
#63144 | ferocity | |
#64307 | grok | |
#64729 | fingernail | |
#80021 | crucify | |
#118560 | percolate | |
#130327 | pillory | |
#150121 | blare | |
#176380 | glom | |
#227814 | intoxicate | |
#290132 | elate | |
#323789 | thieve |
How to use nail in a sentence?
Nikki Haley announced. Since then, at least 60 public Confederate symbols have been removed since the 2015 church shooting, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Most recently, the city of St. Louis, Mo., removed a Confedearte monument -- a 32-foot-tall granite column with a bronze sculpture -- from a park. Complicating the debate for those opposed to these moves is the involvement of hate groups like the KKK. The group is planning a rally for July 8 following a decision by the city council in Charlottesville, Va., to remove a statue of Gen. Lee Park and rename Lee Park. Meanwhile, in April, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu ordered the removal of multiple Confederate statutes. New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu received brutal backlash and was forced to have heavy police presence in place when the nighttime removals began. Despite threats that people would boycott New Orleans, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu did not back down. These statues are not just stone and metal, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said in a highly lauded speech after the last Confederate statue had been taken down. They are not just innocent remembrances of a benign history. These monuments purposefully celebrate a fictional, sanitized Confederacy ; ignoring the death, ignoring the enslavement and the terror that it actually stood for. But to others, like Kenneth Nail Nail, it’s not about oppression. To us, it’s not a hate thing. It’s a heritage thing and what we like to do is celebrate everyone's struggles : the blacks, the whites, the north and south.
These kinds of studies, they don’t nail down the specifics, they nail down the grand overarching view of something as a signal to look here. It’s not saying anything is good or bad here.
The most critical element, we just don’t have a hammer, we design a hammer to hit the nail. In this case, the nail never actually had a proper hammer to be targeted with.
The nail that sticks out is hammered down.
For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.
Translations for nail
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- مسمارArabic
- nehetCzech
- sømDanish
- NagelGerman
- καρφίGreek
- najloEsperanto
- uñaSpanish
- ناخنPersian
- naulataFinnish
- clouFrench
- ingneIrish
- नाखूनHindi
- körömHungarian
- pakuIndonesian
- chiodoItalian
- מַסְמֵרHebrew
- ネイルJapanese
- ಉಗುರುKannada
- 네일Korean
- clavusLatin
- nagelDutch
- spikerNorwegian
- gwóźdźPolish
- unhaPortuguese
- unghieRomanian
- гвоздьRussian
- nagelSwedish
- ஆணிTamil
- గోరుTelugu
- เล็บThai
- tırnakTurkish
- цвяхUkrainian
- کیلUrdu
- móng tayVietnamese
- נאָגלYiddish
- 钉Chinese
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