Definition of nail

noun (n)

• horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits (noun.body)

  source: wordnet30
• a thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener (noun.artifact)

  source: wordnet30
• a former unit of length for cloth equal to 1/16 of a yard (noun.quantity)

  source: wordnet30
• the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes. (noun)

  source: webster1913

verb (v)

• attach something somewhere by means of nails (verb.contact)

  Example:
  Nail the board onto the wall.
  

  source: wordnet30
• take into custody (verb.contact)

  Synonym: apprehend, arrest, collar, cop, nab, pick up
  

  source: wordnet30
• hit hard (verb.contact)

  Synonym: bash, blast, bonk, boom, bop, smash, sock, wallop, whack, wham, whap, whop, whop
  

  source: wordnet30
• succeed in obtaining a position (verb.social)

  Synonym: nail down, peg
  

  Example:
  He nailed down a spot at Harvard.
  

  source: wordnet30
• succeed at easily (verb.social)

  Synonym: ace, breeze through, pass with flying colors, sail through, sweep through
  

  Example:
  She nailed her astrophysics course.
  

  source: wordnet30
• locate exactly (verb.possession)

  Synonym: pinpoint
  

  Example:
  The chemists could not nail the identity of the chromosome.
  

  source: wordnet30
• complete a pass (verb.competition)

  Synonym: complete
  

  source: wordnet30
• To fasten with a nail or nails; to close up or secure by means of nails; as, to nail boards to the beams. (verb)

  source: webster1913

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