nail

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 nāl

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The thin, horny plate at the ends of fingers and toes on humans and some other animals.
    — When I'm nervous I bite my nails.
  2. The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.
  3. The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.
  4. The claw of a bird or other animal.
  5. A spike-shaped metal fastener used for joining wood or similar materials. The nail is generally driven through two or more layers of material by means of impacts from a hammer or other device. It is then held in place by friction.
    — Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
  6. A round pedestal on which merchants once carried out their business, such as the four nails outside The Exchange, Bristol.
  7. An archaic English unit of length equivalent to ¹⁄₂₀ of an ell or ¹⁄₁₆ of a yard (2+¹⁄₄ inches or 5.715 cm).
动词 v.
  1. To fix (an object) to another object using a nail. transitive
    — He nailed the placard to the post.
  2. To drive a nail. intransitive
    — He used the ax head for nailing.
  3. To stud or boss with nails, or as if with nails. transitive
    — The rivets of their arms were nail'd with gold.
  4. To catch. slang
    — I pray you now send me some dub, / A bottle or two to the needy. / I beg you won't bring it yourself, / The harman is at the Old-Bailey; / I'd rather you'd send it behalf, / For, if they twig you they'll nail you.
  5. To expose as a sham. slang,transitive
  6. To accomplish (a task) completely and successfully. slang,transitive
    — I really nailed that test.
  7. To hit (a target) effectively with some weapon. slang,transitive
    — Fly-half Ruaridh Jackson departed early with injury but Chris Paterson nailed a penalty from wide out left to give Scotland an early lead, and Jackson's replacement Dan Parks added three more points with a penalty which skimmed over the crossbar.
  8. Of a male, to engage in sexual intercourse with. slang,transitive,vulgar
    — Allison Reynolds: I'm a nymphomaniac. […] The only person I told was my shrink. / Andrew Clark: And what did he do when you told him? / Allison Reynolds: He nailed me.
  9. To spike, as a cannon.
    — That the Ordinance be not nayled, nor the munition fiered.
  10. To nail down: to make certain, or confirm. transitive
  11. To steal. obsolete,slang,transitive
    — Loud was the laughter at this and other remarks about nailing "stooks" (silk pocket handkerchiefs), "clouts" (cotton ditto), german sausages, &c.

词形变化

nails plural nails present,singular,third-person nailing participle,present nailed participle,past nailed past

词汇关系

衍生词
another nail in someone's coffin another nail in the coffin bed of nails better than a poke in the eye with a rusty nail bite one's nails brass nail bright nail bullen-nail casing nail chew on one's nails clout-nail clout nail coffin nail common nail cut nail denail door-nail door nail doornail drive a nail in someone's coffin drive a nail where it will go dumb as nails duplex nail eightpenny nail eight-penny nail eight penny nail final nail in the coffin fingernail finger nail finish nail footnail fourpenny nail four-penny nail four penny nail frost-nail frost nail garden nail gimp nail green nail syndrome hand-nail handnail hangnail hard as nails hard nail hit the nail on the head hobnail horsenail horse-nail horseshoe nail jolt head nail Küntscher nail last nail in the coffin lath nail mad enough to chew nails misnail nailable nail ball nail bar nail bat nail bed nailbed nail-biter nail biter nail-biting nailbiting nail biting nail bomb nailbrush nailcare nail clipper nailclipping nail cutter nail enamel nailer nailery nailfast nail file nail-file nailfile nailfold nailful nail fungus nail gun nailhead nail-headed nail header nail house nail in one's coffin nailist nail knot nail lacquer nailless naillike nail-making nail-patella syndrome nail plate nail polish nail-polished nailprint nailproof nail puller nail punch nail rod nail salon nail scissors nail set nailset nailshop nail sick nail sickness nailsmith nails on a chalkboard nail-tail wallaby nail technician nail trimmer nail varnish nail violin nailwort naily one nail drives out another on the nail PK nail renail roofing nail rose nail rother nail rusty nail sandpapered nails screw nail scupper nail shell nail syndrome sinker nail six-penny nail six penny nail sixpenny nail sixteen-penny nail sixteen penny nail sixteenpenny nail soil nail spignel spikenail spit nails squint like a bag of nails straw nail street nail stub nail tenpenny nail ten penny nail ten-penny nail the nail that sticks out gets hammered down thumbnail toenail tooth and nail syndrome tooth and nail tooth-and-nail tough as nails treenail twelvepenny nail twelve-penny nail twelve penny nail twenty-nail dystrophy unnail yellow nail syndrome nail it nail Jell-O to a tree nail Jell-O to a wall nail jelly to a wall nail one's colors to the mast nail one's colours to the mast nail someone to the wall nail the hammer on the head nail to the counter
相关词
claw talon Wikipedia disambiguation page on both meanings of nail Wikipedia disambiguation page on spike Nail in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

词源

词源 1
From Middle English nail, nayl, Old English næġl, from Proto-West Germanic *nagl, from Proto-Germanic *naglaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nogʰ- (“nail”).
Cognates
Compare North Frisian Nail (“nail”), Saterland Frisian Nail (“nail”), West Frisian neil, German and Low German Nagel, Dutch and Swedish nagel, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål negl, Norwegian Nynorsk nagl, Finnish naula (“nail”), Estonian nael (“nail”), (compare Irish ionga, Latin unguis, Albanian nyell (“ankle, hard part of a limb”), Lithuanian nagas, Russian нога́ (nogá, “foot, leg”), но́готь (nógotʹ, “nail”), Ancient Greek ὄνυξ (ónux), Persian ناخن (nâxon), Sanskrit नख (nakhá).
词源 2
From Middle English naylen, from Old English næġlan.
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