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Nale vs. Nail — Which is Correct Spelling?

Nale vs. Nail — Which is Correct Spelling?

Which is correct: Nale or Nail

How to spell Nail?

Nale

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Nail

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Nail Definitions

A slim, pointed piece of metal hammered into material as a fastener.
A fingernail or toenail.
A claw or talon.
Something resembling a nail in shape, sharpness, or use.
A measure of length formerly used for cloth, equal to 1/16 yard (5.7 centimeters).
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To fasten, join, or attach with or as if with a nail.
To cover, enclose, or shut by fastening with nails
Nail up a window.
To keep fixed, motionless, or intent
Fear nailed me to my seat.
To stop and seize; catch
Police nailed the suspect.
To detect and expose
Nailed the senator in a lie.
Nail corruption before it gets out of control.
To strike or bring down
Nail a bird in flight.
Nail a running back.
To perform successfully or have noteworthy success in
Nailed the dive.
Nailed the exam.
(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.
When I'm nervous I bite my nails.
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.
He nailed the placard to the post.
(intransitive) To drive a nail.
He used the ax head for nailing.
(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.
I really nailed that test.
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.
His nayles like a briddes claws were.
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.
He is now dead, and nailed in his chest.
To stud or boss with nails, or as with nails.
The rivets of your arms were nailed with gold.
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.
When they came to talk of places in town, you saw at once how I nailed them.
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;
Nail the board onto the wall
Take into custody;
The police nabbed the suspected criminals
Hit hard;
He smashed a 3-run homer
Succeed in obtaining a position;
He nailed down a spot at Harvard
Succeed at easily;
She sailed through her exams
You will pass with flying colors
She nailed her astrophysics course
Locate exactly;
Can you pinpoint the position of the enemy?
The chemists could not nail the identity of the chromosome
Complete a pass

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