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nail
English
- 🔊 a thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener
- 🔊 horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits
- 🔊 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”
- 🔊 complete a pass
- 🔊 take into custody“the police nabbed the suspected criminals”
- 🔊 hit hard“He smashed a 3-run homer”
- 🔊 locate exactly“can you pinpoint the position of the enemy?”
- 🔊 succeed in obtaining a position“He nailed down a spot at Harvard”
- 🔊 succeed at easily“She sailed through her exams”
Spanish
- 🔊 clavetear to nail
- 🔊 enclavar to nail
- 🔊 clavo nail, spike
- 🔊 hincar to nail, drive, thrust
- 🔊 clavar to nail, to pin, to stick