Nickel

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A silvery, hard, ductile, ferromagnetic metallic element used in alloys, in corrosion-resistant surfaces and batteries, and for electroplating. Atomic number 28; atomic weight 58.69; melting point 1,453°C; boiling point 2,732°C; specific gravity 8.902; valence 0, 1, 2, 3. See Table at element.
  • n. A U.S. coin worth five cents, made of a nickel and copper alloy.
  • n. Slang A nickel bag.
  • v. To coat with nickel.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A silvery elemental metal with an atomic number of 28 and symbol Ni.
  • n. A coin worth 5 cents.
  • n. Five dollars.
  • n. Five hundred dollars.
  • n. Interstate 5, a highway that runs along the west coast of the United States.
  • n. A playing card with the rank of five
  • n. A five-year prison sentence.
  • v. To plate with nickel.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A bright silver-white metallic element of atomic number 28. It is of the iron group, and is hard, malleable, and ductile. It occurs combined with sulphur in millerite, with arsenic in the mineral niccolite, and with arsenic and sulphur in nickel glance. Symbol Ni. Atomic weight 58.70.
  • n. A small coin made of or containing nickel; esp., a five-cent piece.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Chemical symbol, Ni; atomic weight, 58. A metal closely related to cobalt, with which it almost always occurs.
  • n. In the United States, a current coin representing the value of five cents, made of an alloy of one part of nickel to three of copper.
  • Consisting of or covered with nickel.
  • To plate or coat, as metal surfaces, with nickel, either by electrolytic processes or by chemical operations.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. five dollars worth of a drug
  • v. plate with nickel
  • n. a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite
  • n. a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar
  • Verb Form
    nickelled    nickelling    nickels   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    fiver    five-spot    five dollar bill    plate    metallic element    metal    coin   
    Variant
    nickelling    nickelled   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Mikel    Nicol    brickle    ferronickel    fickle    mickle    nickle    pickle    sickle    stickle   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    cobalt    titanium    cadmium    platinum    zinc    magnesium    chrome    copper    boron    vanadium