nail

nail is a 4-letter English word with 19 senses as noun, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 6 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. noun. the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes.
2. noun. The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.
3. noun. The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.
4. noun. 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.
5. adjective. A measure of length, being two inches and a quarter, or the sixteenth of a yard.
6. noun. To fasten with a nail or nails; to close up or secure by means of nails; as, to nail boards to the beams.
7. noun. To stud or boss with nails, or as with nails.
8. noun. 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.
9. noun. To spike, as a cannon.
10. noun. a thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener
11. noun. horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits
12. noun. a former unit of length for cloth equal to 1/16 of a yard
13. verb. complete a pass

    Synonyms: complete

14. verb. take into custody

    "the police nabbed the suspected criminals"

    Synonyms: apprehend, arrest, collar, cop, nab

15. verb. attach something somewhere by means of nails

    "nail the board onto the wall"

16. verb. hit hard

    "He smashed a 3-run homer"

    Synonyms: blast, boom, smash

17. verb. locate exactly

    "can you pinpoint the position of the enemy?"

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

    Synonyms: pinpoint

18. verb. succeed at easily

    "She sailed through her exams"

    "You will pass with flying colors"

    Synonyms: ace

19. verb. succeed in obtaining a position

    "He nailed down a spot at Harvard"

    Synonyms: peg

Synonyms

complete, apprehend, arrest, collar, cop, nab, blast, boom, smash, pinpoint, ace, peg

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in nail:

alin, anil, inla, lain, lina

Common word forms

nails, nailed, nailer, nailing, nailless

Words from these letters

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