nickel

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English

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Nickel (element)

A US nickel coin.

Etymology

From Swedish nickel, an abbreviation of German kupfernickel (“a mineral containing copper and nickel”), from koppar (“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.

Derived terms

terms derived from nickel

antimonial nickel arsenical nickel bismuth-nickel copper-nickel cupro-nickel cupronickel 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 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

Related terms

• kupfernickel
• niccolite
• nife
• nitinol

Translations

element

• Afrikaans: nikkel
• Albanian: nikel
• Arabic: نيكل m (níkl)
• Armenian: նիկել (nikel)
• Asturian: níquel m
• Basque: nikela
• Belarusian: нiкель m (nikelʹ)
• Breton: nikel m
• Bulgarian: никел m (níkel)
• Burmese: နီကယ်
• 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
• Dutch: nikkel (nl) n
• Esperanto: nikelo (eo)
• Estonian: nikkel
• Faroese: nikkul
• Finnish: nikkeli (fi)
• French: nickel (fr) m
• Friulian: nichel
• Galician: níquel (gl) m
• Georgian: ნიკელი (nikeli)
• German: Nickel (de) n
• Greek: νικέλιο (el) n (nikélio)
• Hebrew: ניקל (he) (nikl)
• Hindi: रूपक (rūpak), निकल (nikal)
• Hungarian: nikkel (hu)
• Icelandic: nikkel (is) n
• Indonesian: nikel (id)
• Interlingua: nickel
• Irish: nicil (ga)
• Italian: nichel (it) m, nickelio m
• Japanese: ニッケル (ja) (nikkeru)
• Kashubian: nikel
• Kazakh: никель (nïkelʹ)

• Khmer: ស្ពាន់ស (spoan sor), នីកើល (niikaəl)
• Korean: 니켈 (ko) (nikel)
• Latvian: niķelis
• Lithuanian: nikelis (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Néckel
• Macedonian: никел m (níkel)
• 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
• Portuguese: níquel (pt) m
• Romanian: nichel (ro) n
• Russian: никель (ru) m (nikelʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: nicil
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: никал m

  Roman: nikal m

• Slovak: nikel m
• Slovene: nikelj (sl) m
• Spanish: níquel (es) m
• Swedish: nickel (sv) n
• Tajik: никел (nikel)
• Tamil: வன்வெள்ளி (van-veLLi)
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: นิกเกิล (nikkoen)
• Turkish: nikel (tr)
• Ukrainian: нiкель m (nikelʹ)
• Urdu: دھات کا نام n, نکل (nikal)
• Uzbek: nikel
• 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
• Italian: moneta di cinque centesimi f

• Macedonian: никл m (nikl)
• Maltese: xelin
• Navajo: łitso
• Portuguese: níquel (pt) m
• Russian: монета (ru) (moneta) в (ru) (v) пять (ru) (pjatʹ) центов (ru) (centov)
• 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) (nikelirovát') impf. and pf.
• Spanish: niquelar
• 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

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ni.kɛl/

• audio

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Noun

nickel m

1. nickel (metal)

Related terms

• nickelage
• nickeler

Adjective

nickel (invariable)

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

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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)