Definition of Nail

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Definition of Nail

Nail

the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes.

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

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

A slender, pointed piece of metal, usually with a head, used for fastening pieces of wood or other material together, by being driven into or through them.

A measure of length, being two inches and a quarter, or the sixteenth of a yard.

To fasten with a nail or nails; to close up or secure by means of nails; as, to nail boards to the beams.

To stud or boss with nails, or as with nails.

To fasten, as with a nail; to bind or hold, as to a bargain or to acquiescence in an argument or assertion; hence, to catch; to trap.

To spike, as a cannon.

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Nail Quotations

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Abraham Maslow

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Abraham Maslow

He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.
Abraham Maslow

When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.
Abraham Maslow

It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.
Abraham Maslow

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
Abraham Maslow

Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.
Frank Lloyd Wright

I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the first or second take because I'm right there.
Mickey Rourke

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Bernard Baruch

Nail Translations

nail in Afrikaans is nael
nail in Dutch is spijkeren, nagelen
nail in Finnish is kynsi, naula
nail in French is clou, ongle, enclouer, clouer, caboche
nail in German is Nagel, nageln, Nagel
nail in Italian is chiodo, inchiodare
nail in Norwegian is negl, spiker
nail in Portuguese is unha, prego
nail in Swedish is spika, spik, nubb, nagel

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