nickel

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English

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Nickel (element)

A US nickel coin.

Etymology

Borrowing from Swedish nickel, an abbreviation of German Kupfernickel ‎(“a mineral containing copper and nickel”), from Kupfer ‎(“copper”) + Nikolaus ‎(“the devil”) due to the deceptive silver colour of the relatively valueless ore. Compare cobalt as related to kobolds.

Pronunciation

• enPR: nĭk'əl, IPA^(key): /ˈnɪk.əl/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɪkəl

Noun

nickel ‎(countable and uncountable, plural nickels)

1. (uncountable) A silvery elemental metal with an atomic number of 28 and symbol Ni.
2. (US, Canada, countable) A coin worth 5 cents.
3. (US slang, by extension) Five dollars.
4. (US slang, by extension) Five hundred dollars.
5. (US slang, sometimes the nickel or the hot nickel) Interstate 5, a highway that runs along the west coast of the United States.
6. (slang) A playing card with the rank of five
7. (US slang) A five-year prison sentence.
8. (American football) A defensive formation with five defensive backs, one of whom is a nickelback, instead of the more common four.

Related terms

• kupfernickel
• niccolite
• nife
• nitinol

Derived terms

terms derived from nickel

antimonial nickel arsenical nickel bismuth-nickel copper-nickel cupro-nickel cupronickel double-nickel hot nickel Nichrome nickel-and-dime nickel-antigorite nickel bag nickel-bloom nickel bronze nickel carbonyl nickel chloride

nickel-chlorite nickel glance nickel green nickel gymnite nickel hydride nickel hydroxide nickelian nickelic nickeliferous nickeline nickel-in-the-slot nickel-iron nickelisation nickelization nickelise

nickelize nickelite nickel nitrate nickel note nickel nurser nickelocene nickelodeon nickelous nickel ocher nickel ochre nickel-plated nickel pyrites nickel regulus nickel salt nickel silver

nickel-skudderudite nickel spinel nickel steel nickel sulfate nickel sulphate nickel sulfide nickel sulphide nickel tetracarbonyl not worth a plug nickel not worth a plugged nickel plug nickel plugged nickel Raney nickel tetracarbonylnickel

Translations

element

• Afrikaans: nikkel
• Albanian: nikel (sq)
• Arabic: نِيكْل m ‎(nikl)
• Armenian: նիկել (hy) ‎(nikel)
• Asturian: níquel m
• Basque: nikela
• Belarusian: нiкель m ‎(nikjelʹ)
• Breton: nikel m
• Bulgarian: ни́кел m ‎(níkel)
• Burmese: နီကယ် ‎(nikai)
• Catalan: níquel (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鎳 (zh), 镍 (zh) ‎(niè)

• Cornish: nykel
• Corsican: please add this translation if you can
• Czech: nikl (cs) m
• Danish: nikkel (da)
• Dutch: nikkel (nl) n
• Esperanto: nikelo (eo)
• Estonian: nikkel (et)
• Faroese: nikkul n
• Finnish: nikkeli (fi)
• French: nickel (fr) m
• Friulian: nichel
• Galician: níquel (gl) m
• Georgian: ნიკელი ‎(niḳeli)
• German: Nickel (de) n
• Greek: νικέλιο (el) n ‎(nikélio)
• Hebrew: ניקל (he) ‎(nikl)
• Hindi: रूपक (hi) ‎(rūpak), निकल (hi) ‎(nikal)
• Hungarian: nikkel (hu)
• Icelandic: nikkel (is) n
• Indonesian: nikel (id)
• Interlingua: nickel
• Irish: nicil (ga) f
• Italian: nichel (it) m, nickelio m
• Japanese: ニッケル (ja) ‎(nikkeru)
• Kashubian: nikel
• Kazakh: никель (kk) ‎(nïkelʹ)
• Khmer: ស្ពាន់ស ‎(spoan sor), នីកើល ‎(niikaəl)

• Korean: 니켈 (ko) ‎(nikel)
• Latin: niccolum (la)
• Latvian: niķelis
• Lithuanian: nikelis (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Néckel
• Macedonian: никел m ‎(nikel)
• Malay: nikel
• Maltese: nikel
• Manx: nickyl
• Maori: nikera
• Mongolian: никель ‎(nikelʹ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nikkel (no) m, n

  Nynorsk: nikkel (nn) m, n

• Persian: نیکل (fa) ‎(nikel)
• Polish: nikiel (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: níquel (pt) m
• Romanian: nichel (ro) n
• Russian: ни́кель (ru) m ‎(níkelʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: nicil
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: никал m

  Roman: nikal (sh) m

• Slovak: nikel (sk) m
• Slovene: nikelj (sl) m
• Spanish: níquel (es) m
• Swedish: nickel (sv) n
• Tagalog: nikel (tl)
• Tajik: никел ‎(nikel)
• Tamil: வன்வெள்ளி ‎(vaṉveḷḷi)
• Telugu: నికెలు ‎(nikelu), నికిలము ‎(nikilamu)
• Thai: นิกเกิล ‎(nikkoen)
• Turkish: nikel (tr)
• Ukrainian: нiкель m ‎(nikelʹ)
• Urdu: دھات کا نام n, نکل ‎(nikal)
• Uzbek: nikel (uz)
• Vietnamese: nikel
• Welsh: nicel (cy)
• West Frisian: nikkel
• Yiddish: ניקל m ‎(nikl)

coin

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 五分錢 ‎(wǔ fēn qián)

• Dutch: stuiver (nl) m
• Esperanto: nikelo (eo)
• Finnish: viisisenttinen
• French: pièce de cinq cents f
• Interlingua: nickel
• Irish: nicil (ga) f
• Italian: moneta di cinque centesimi f, nichelino (it) m

• Macedonian: никл m ‎(nikl)
• Maltese: xelin
• Navajo: łitso
• Portuguese: níquel (pt) m
• Russian: моне́та (ru) ‎(monéta) в (ru) ‎(v) пять (ru) ‎(pjatʹ) центов (ru) ‎(centov)
• Slovene: kovanec za pet centov m
• Swahili: kitano
• Urdu: سکّہ n
• Yiddish: ניקל m ‎(nikl)

Verb

nickel ‎(third-person singular simple present nickels, present participle nickeling, simple past and past participle nickeled)

1. (transitive) To plate with nickel.

Translations

to plate with nickel

• Belarusian: нікеляваць ‎(nikjeljavacʹ)
• Dutch: vernikkelen (nl)
• Finnish: nikkelöidä, niklata
• French: nickeler (fr), nickeler (fr)
• Portuguese: niquelar (pt)

• Romanian: nichela (ro)
• Russian: никелирова́ть (ru) impf, pf ‎(nikelirovátʹ)
• Spanish: niquelar (es)
• Yiddish: ניקעלירן ‎(nikelirn)

References

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523

See also

• false copper
• garnierite
• pentlandite

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French

Wikipedia ^fr

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ni.kɛl/

• audio

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Noun

nickel m

1. nickel (metal)

Related terms

• nickelage
• nickeler

Adjective

nickel m, f ‎(invariable)

1. (slang) spotless
2. (slang) perfect, bang on

External links

• “nickel” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

nickel n

1. nickel; a chemical element
2. a coin of small, but undetermined value

   Jag har inte en/ett nickel.

   I don't have a nickel

Declension

Declension of nickel

	uncountable		uncountable
Neuter	indefinite	definite
nominative	nickel	nicklet
genitive	nickels	nicklets

Declension of nickel

	uncountable		uncountable
Common	indefinite	definite
nominative	nickel	nickeln
genitive	nickels	nickelns

Related terms

• (coin): inte ett nickel

References

• nickel in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)