Nail vs. Nil — What's the Difference?

A slim, pointed piece of metal hammered into material as a fastener.

Nothing; zero.

A fingernail or toenail.

Nothing; zero.

A claw or talon.

(sports) A score of zero

Something resembling a nail in shape, sharpness, or use.

No, not any.

A measure of length formerly used for cloth, equal to 1/16 yard (5.7 centimeters).

Will not.

To fasten, join, or attach with or as if with a nail.

Nothing; of no account; worthless; - a term often used for canceling, in accounts or bookkeeping.

To cover, enclose, or shut by fastening with nails

A special value for a variable used in certain computer languages to mean no assigned value, to be distinguished from the value zero.

To keep fixed, motionless, or intent

A quantity of no importance;

To stop and seize; catch

To detect and expose

To strike or bring down

To perform successfully or have noteworthy success in

(Baseball) To put out (a base runner).

Vulgar Slang To have sexual intercourse with.

The thin, horny plate at the ends of fingers and toes on humans and some other animals.

The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.

The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.

The claw of a bird or other animal.

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.

A round pedestal on which merchants once carried out their business, such as the four nails outside The Exchange, Bristol.

An archaic English unit of length equivalent to 20 of an ell or 16 of a yard (4 inches or 5.715 cm).

(transitive) To fix (an object) to another object using a nail.

(intransitive) To drive a nail.

(transitive) To stud or boss with nails, or as if with nails.

(slang) To catch.

To expose as a sham.

To accomplish (a task) completely and successfully.

To hit (a target) effectively with some weapon.

Of a male, to engage in sexual intercourse with.

(military) To spike, as a cannon.

(transitive) To nail down: to make certain, or confirm.

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.

A slender, pointed piece of metal, usually with a head{2}, 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.

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

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

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

Attach something somewhere by means of nails;

Take into custody;

Hit hard;

Succeed in obtaining a position;

Succeed at easily;

Locate exactly;

Complete a pass