nickel
See also: Nickel
English
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| Ni | |
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| Next: copper (Cu) | |
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
Noun
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.
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- (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
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
Related terms
Translations
element
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coin
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Verb
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
to plate with nickel
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See also
References
- Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. →ISBN
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Noun
nickel m (countable and uncountable, plural nickels)
- (usually uncountable) nickel (metal)
- (countable) atom of nickel
Related terms
Adjective
nickel (invariable)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “nickel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Swedish
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
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
| Declension of nickel | ||||
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| 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
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