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Noun nail has 3 senses
- nail - horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits
--1 is a kind of horny structure, unguis
--1 is a part of integumentary system; digit, dactyl
--1 has parts: half-moon, lunula, lunule; matrix
--1 has particulars: fingernail; toenail
- nail - a thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener
--2 is a kind of fastener, fastening, holdfast, fixing
--2 has parts: clinch; head; nailhead; shank, stem
--2 has particulars:
- nail - a former unit of length for cloth equal to 1/16 of a yard
--3 is a kind of linear unit
Verb nail has 7 senses
- nail - attach something somewhere by means of nails; "nail the board onto the wall"
--1 is one way to attach
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- collar, nail, apprehend, arrest, pick up, nab, cop - take into custody; "the police nabbed the suspected criminals"
--2 is one way to seize, prehend, clutch
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- smash, nail, boom, blast - hit hard; "He smashed a 3-run homer"
--3 is one way to hit
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- nail down, nail, peg - succeed in obtaining a position; "He nailed down a spot at Harvard"
--4 is one way to succeed, win, come through, bring home the bacon, deliver the goods
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- 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"
--5 is one way to pass, make it
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- pinpoint, nail - locate exactly; "can you pinpoint the position of the enemy?"; "The chemists could not nail the identity of the chromosome"
--6 is one way to locate, turn up
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- complete, nail - complete a pass
--7 is one way to play
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