nickel

See also: Nickel

English[edit]

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Nickel (element)

A US nickel coin.

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from German Nickel, first used in a text by the Swedish mineralogist Axel F. Cronstedt as an abbreviation of Kupfernickel (“a mineral containing copper and nickel”), from Kupfer (“copper”) + Nickel (“insignificant person, goblin”), originally nickname of Nikolaus (“Nicholas”), due to the deceptive silver colour of the relatively valueless ore. Compare cobalt as related to kobolds.

Pronunciation[edit]

enPR: nĭk'əl, IPA^(key): /ˈnɪk.əl/
Audio (US)
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Rhymes: -ɪkəl

Noun[edit]

nickel (countable and uncountable, plural nickels)

(uncountable) A silvery elemental metal with an atomic number of 28 and symbol Ni.
(US, Canada, countable) A coin worth 5 cents.
- 2017 October 8, John Oliver, “Confederacy”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 26, HBO:
  That is just objectively terrifying regardless of contexts! He looks like if a nickel did cocaine!
(US, slang, by extension) Five dollars.
(US, slang, by extension) Five hundred dollars.
(US, slang, sometimes the nickel or the hot nickel) Interstate 5, a highway that runs along the west coast of the United States.
(slang) A playing card with the rank of five
(US, slang) A five-year prison sentence.
(American football) A defensive formation with five defensive backs, one of whom is a nickelback, instead of the more common four.

Derived terms[edit]

terms derived from nickel

Related terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

element

Afrikaans: nikkel (af)
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)
Greenlandic: nikkeli
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
Lingala: nikɛ́li class 9a/10a
Lithuanian: nikelis (lt)
Luxembourgish: Néckel
Macedonian: никел m (nikel)
Malay: nikel
Maltese: nikel
Manx: nickyl
Maori: nikera, konukōreko
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 (ník-gə̂əl)
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[edit]

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

(transitive) To plate with nickel.

Translations[edit]

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[edit]

Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. →ISBN

Anagrams[edit]

Nickle, inleck