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English[edit]
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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]
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.
- Coordinate term: dime
- 2017 October 8, “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]
- 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
- nickelise
- nickelite
- nickelization
- nickelize
- nickel nitrate
- nickel note
- nickel nurser
- nickelocene
- nickel ocher
- nickel ochre
- nickelodeon
- nickelous
- nickel-plated
- Nickel Plate Road
- nickel pyrites
- nickel regulus
- nickel salt
- nickel silver
- nickel-skudderudite
- nickel spinel
- nickel steel
- nickel sulfate
- nickel sulfide
- nickel sulphate
- nickel sulphide
- nickel tetracarbonyl
- not worth a plugged nickel
- not worth a plug nickel
- plugged nickel
- plug nickel
- Raney nickel
- tetracarbonylnickel
- that and a nickel will buy you a cup of coffee
- that and a nickel will get you on the subway
- wooden nickel
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
element
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coin
Adjective[edit]
nickel (not comparable)
- (US, idiomatic, somewhat dated) Synonym of cheap: Low price and/or low value.
- Let me give you the nickel tour of the office.
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
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
- Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. →ISBN
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
nickel m (countable and uncountable, plural nickels)
- (usually uncountable) nickel (metal)
- (countable) atom of nickel
Related terms[edit]
Adjective[edit]
nickel (invariable)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “nickel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Swedish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
nickel n
- nickel; a chemical element
- a coin of small, but undetermined value
- Jag har inte en/ett nickel.
- I don't have a nickel
- Jag har inte en/ett nickel.
Declension[edit]
Declension of nickel | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | nickel | nicklet | — | — |
Genitive | nickels | nicklets | — | — |
Declension of nickel | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | nickel | nickeln | — | — |
Genitive | nickels | nickelns | — | — |
Related terms[edit]
- (coin): inte ett nickel
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