nickel

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English

Chemical element
Ni
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Nickel (element)

Etymology

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

• enPR: nĭ'kəl, IPA^(key): /ˈnɪ.kəl/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɪkəl

Noun

nickel (countable and uncountable, plural nickels)

2. (uncountable) A silvery elemental metal with an atomic number of 28 and symbol Ni.
4. (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!

5. (US, slang, by extension) Five dollars.
6. (US, slang, by extension) Five hundred dollars.
7. (US, slang, sometimes the nickel or the hot nickel) Interstate 5, a highway that runs along the west coast of the United States.
8. (slang) A playing card with the rank of five
9. (US, slang) A five-year prison sentence.
10. (American football) A defensive formation with five defensive backs, one of whom is a nickelback, instead of the more common four.

Derived terms

• 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

• kupfernickel
• niccolite
• nife
• nitinol

Translations

element

• Afrikaans: nikkel (af)
• Albanian: nikel (sq)
• Arabic: نِيكْل‎ m (nikl)
• Armenian: նիկել (hy) (nikel)
• Asturian: níquel m
• Basque: nikela
• Belarusian: нікель 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 9a or 10a
• Lithuanian: nikelis (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Néckel
• Macedonian: никел m (nikel)
• Malay: nikel
• Maltese: nikel
• Manx: nickyl
• Maori: nikera, konukōreko
• Mongolian: никель (nikeli)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nikkel (no) m or n

  Nynorsk: nikkel (nn) m or n

• Occitan: niquèl m
• 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: нікель 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

• Bulgarian: монета от 5 цента (moneta ot 5 centa)
• 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
• Maori: nikera
• Navajo: łitso
• Portuguese: níquel (pt) m
• Japanese: 5セント (5-Sento)
• 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)

Adjective

nickel (not comparable)

1. (US, idiomatic, somewhat dated) Synonym of cheap: Low price and/or low value.

   Let me give you the nickel tour of the office.

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To plate with nickel.

Translations

to plate with nickel

• Belarusian: нікеляваць (nikjeljavacʹ)
• Bulgarian: никелирам (bg) (nikeliram)
• Catalan: niquelar (ca)
• Dutch: vernikkelen (nl)
• Finnish: nikkelöidä, niklata
• French: nickeler (fr), nickeler (fr)
• German: vernickeln (de)
• Irish: niciligh

• Portuguese: niquelar (pt)
• Romanian: nichela (ro)
• Russian: никелирова́ть (ru) impf or pf (nikelirovátʹ)
• Spanish: niquelar (es)
• Swedish: förnickla
• Yiddish: ניקעלירן‎ (nikelirn)

See also

• false copper
• garnierite
• nickelling
• pentlandite

References

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

Anagrams

• Nickle, inleck, nickle

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ni.kɛl/

• audio

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Noun

nickel m (countable and uncountable, plural nickels)

1. (usually uncountable) nickel (metal)
2. (countable) atom of nickel

Related terms

• nickelage
• nickeler

Adjective

nickel (invariable)

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

Derived terms

• nickellement

Further reading

• “nickel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Swedish

Pronunciation

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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
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	nickel	nicklet	—	—
Genitive	nickels	nicklets	—	—

Declension of nickel
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	nickel	nickeln	—	—
Genitive	nickels	nickelns	—	—

Related terms

• (coin): inte ett nickel

References

• nickel in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)