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 all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Bernard Baruch
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
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
Desiderius Erasmus
I don't think God cares if I wear nail polish or not. I don't think that's a deal breaker for him.
Sofia Vergara
The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.
Billy Sunday
Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word.
Rooney Mara
I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange.
Megan Fox
I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.
Oliver Reed
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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