Definition of nail

"nail" in the noun sense

1. nail

horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits

2. nail

a thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener

3. nail

a former unit of length for cloth equal to 1/16 of a yard

"nail" in the verb sense

1. nail

attach something somewhere by means of nails

"nail the board onto the wall"

2. collar, nail, apprehend, arrest, pick up, nab, cop

take into custody

"the police nabbed the suspected criminals"

3. smash, nail, boom, blast

hit hard

"He smashed a 3-run homer"

4. nail down, nail, peg

succeed in obtaining a position

"He nailed down a spot at Harvard"

5. breeze through, ace, pass with flying colors, sweep through, sail through, nail

succeed at easily

"She sailed through her exams"

"You will pass with flying colors"

"She nailed her astrophysics course"

6. pinpoint, nail

locate exactly

"can you pinpoint the position of the enemy?"

"The chemists could not nail the identity of the chromosome"

7. complete, nail

complete a pass

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Quotations for nail

Hang not all on one nail. [ German Proverb ]

Hit the nail on the head. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Make a pearl on your nail. [ Proverb ]

One nail drives out another. [ Proverb ]

Drive that nail that will go. [ Proverb ]

A clattering hoof means a nail gone. [ Spanish Proverb ]

Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt,
And every grin, so merry, draws one out. [ Dr. John Wolcott ]

A rusty nail, placed near the faithful compass,
Will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy. [ Scott ]

Drive not a second nail till the first be clinched. [ Proverb ]

Who will make a door of gold must knock a nail every day. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He may make a will upon his nail, for any thing he has to give. [ Proverb ]

You need not go to the iron-mills every time you lack a tack-nail. [ Proverb ]

Ambition hath one heel nail'd in hell, Though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens. [ Lilly ]

For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is man's good name once tainted with just reproach. [ Bishop Hall ]

God took his softest clay and his purest colors, and made a fragile jewel, mysterious and caressing - the finger of woman; then he fell asleep. The devil awoke, and at the end of that rosy finger put a nail. [ Victor Hugo ]

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million, count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]

A little neglect may breed great mischief. For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood. [ St. Augustine ]

nail in Scrabble®

The word nail is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 4

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters nail:

LAIN
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nail in Words With Friends™

The word nail is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters nail:

LAIN
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NAIL
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NAIL
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Word Growth involving nail

Shorter words in nail

ai ail

Longer words containing nail

doornail doornails

fingernail fingernails

hangnail hangnails

hobnail hobnailed

hobnail hobnails

nailbiter nailbiters

nailbiting

nailbrush nailbrushes

nailed hobnailed

nailed renailed

nailed snailed

nailed toenailed

nailer nailers

nailer snaileries

nailer snailery

nailfile nailfiles

nailhead nailheads

nailing nailings

nailing renailing

nailing snailing

nailing toenailing

nailless

naillike snaillike

nailmaker nailmakers

nailprint nailprints

nailproof

nails doornails

nails fingernails

nails hangnails

nails hobnails

nails nailset nailsets

nails renails trenails

nails snails seasnails

nails snails snailshell snailshells

nails snails snailspace

nails thumbnails

nails toenails

nails treenails

nailwort nailworts

renail renailed

renail renailing

renail renails trenails

renail trenail trenails

screwnail

snail seasnail seasnails

snail snaileater snaileaters

snail snailed

snail snaileries

snail snailery

snail snailfish snailfishes

snail snailier

snail snailiest

snail snailing

snail snailish snailishly

snail snaillike

snail snailpaced

snail snails seasnails

snail snails snailshell snailshells

snail snails snailspace

snail snaily

thumbnail thumbnails

toenail toenailed

toenail toenailing

toenail toenails

treenail treenails