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Works in: English
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Jonathan MacKerron
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kmtext
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| 4 | apprehend |
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Retired as of Jan 2019!
Native in: English
Works in: German to English, French to English
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nail
A noun
1 nail
a thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener
Category Tree:
entity
╚object; physical object
╚artifact; artefact
╚instrumentality; instrumentation
╚device
╚restraint; constraint
╚fastener; fastening; holdfast; fixing
╚nail
╚spike
╚sixpenny nail
╚hobnail
╚fourpenny nail
╚eightpenny nail
╚doornail
╚clout nail; clout
╚brad
2 nail
horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits
Category Tree:
entity
╚thing
╚part; piece
╚body part
╚structure; anatomical structure; complex body part; bodily structure; body structure
╚horny structure; unguis
╚nail
╚toenail
╚fingernail
3 nail
a former unit of length for cloth equal to 1/16 of a yard
Category Tree:
abstraction
╚measure; quantity; amount
╚linear measure; long measure
╚linear unit
╚nail
B verb
1 complete, nail
complete a pass
Category Tree:
compete; vie; contend
╚play
╚complete, nail
2 collar, nail, apprehend, arrest, pick up, nab, cop
take into custody; "the police nabbed the suspected criminals"
Category Tree:
take; get hold of
╚seize; prehend; clutch
╚collar, nail, apprehend, arrest, pick up, nab, cop
3 nail
attach something somewhere by means of nails; "nail the board onto the wall"
Category Tree:
connect; link; tie; link up
╚attach
╚nail
4 smash, nail, boom, blast
hit hard; "He smashed a 3-run homer"
Category Tree:
touch
╚hit
╚smash, nail, boom, blast
5 pinpoint, nail
locate exactly; "can you pinpoint the position of the enemy?"; "The chemists could not nail the identity of the chromosome"
Category Tree:
get; acquire
╚find; regain
╚locate; turn up
╚pinpoint, nail
6 breeze through, ace, pass with flying colors, sweep through, sail through, nail
succeed at easily; "She sailed through her exams"; "You will pass with flying colors"; "She nailed her astrophysics course"
Category Tree:
succeed; win; come through; bring home the bacon; deliver the goods
╚pass; make it
╚breeze through, ace, pass with flying colors, sweep through, sail through, nail
7 nail down, nail, peg
succeed in obtaining a position; "He nailed down a spot at Harvard"
Category Tree:
succeed; win; come through; bring home the bacon; deliver the goods
╚nail down, nail, peg
Forum discussions with the word(s) "nail" in the title:
... a nail in the wall
"Hit the nail on the head"
"Nail an exam"
a nail biter
could well, nail him
drive a nail
dry finger skin around your nail
Hit the nail
How much big/large your nail is?
It looks like a nail biter to me.
nail
nail / nail down
nail = hand of a clock ?
Nail Color
nail grown inside one's toe
nail his hide to the wall
nail jello to a tree
nail polish
nail the jelly to the wall
nail the secretary
nail the venue
noodle as a nail
one nail at a time
Press the finger pad away from the nail.
put in the final nail in something
the nail got busted?
wear a finger manicure; wear nail polish/varnish
wear my nail short
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Christine Andersen
: Fascinating, but is this really a helpful explanation?
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mastered
An exmple of this would be when a child has mastered staying upright on a bicycle and then moves on to performing more and more complicated manoeuvres and tricks.
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