Word Finder - nailed

definition

To fix (an object) to another object using a nail.

example

He nailed the placard to the post.

synonyms

• pin
• rivet
• screw

definition

To drive a nail.

example

He used the ax head for nailing.

synonyms

• hammer

definition

To stud or boss with nails, or as if with nails.

definition

To catch.

synonyms

• arrest
• collar
• nick

definition

To expose as a sham.

definition

To accomplish (a task) completely and successfully.

example

I really nailed that test.

synonyms

• ace
• fulfill
• fullbring

definition

To hit (a target) effectively with some weapon.

definition

Of a male, to engage in sexual intercourse with.

synonyms

• dick
• pound
• rail
• screw

definition

To spike, as a cannon.

definition

To nail down: to make certain, or confirm.

synonyms

• clinch
• fix
• lock down
• pin down

definition

Having nails (often of a specified kind).

example

a red-nailed finger

Howie nailed it on the first try, managed to catch a license plate number, and a killer was apprehended in hours.

He nailed the wood over the window while she cleaned the rest of the glass from the counter.

At the centre of the vision appeared a cross, and the seraph was nailed to it.

The actors nailed down the personalities of the characters really well and you'd be hard-pressed to find an animated movie that has done better.

You always beat me to every punch, D, and for once, I nailed you!

If the bastard chased him down the mountain and then beat it out of there when Billy went over the side, that's a whole different matter—he ought to be nailed if he did that.

I'd guess that they are the ones that have nailed their Burberry baseball hats on, to keep them at the right angle.

The tiles can be clipped onto a 8mm diameter steel rod, rope or nailed onto a wooden batten.

Martin Luther was nailed to the church door for selling papal indulgences.

The plaster is pushed onto and into the timber laths, which have been nailed to upright studs.

The fence is made of split chestnut, with the lower rail mortised into the ' godfathers ', and the upper rails nailed.

Unlike tiles that have nibs to locate them on a batten, every double lap slate needs to be twice nailed.

A grandly towering fusion of jazz funk, eccentric samples and lush vocals nailed to a chassis of crackling grooves and pounding percussion.

The tracks stopped with no ceremony or barrier beyond a thick plank of wood nailed to two posts in the ground.

Fixing Each hip tile needs to be nailed into the hip rafter, or a hip batten greater than 25mm thick.

The bilge stringers were copper nailed through the frames, two nails per frame, round on the inside.

We arrived at the gates with anticipation high that another target bird, crimson topaz, could be nailed.

Edge climbed to the top turnbuckle and nailed Angle with a crossbody.

Thus a shoot will grow more vigorously whilst waving in the air than when nailed close to the wall; consequently a weak shoot should be left free, whilst its stronger antagonist should be restrained; and a luxuriant shoot may be retarded for some time by having its tender extremity pinched off to allow a weaker shoot to overtake it.

The ancient Gael nailed the heads of his vanquished enemies to the door of his hut.

You've nailed the business model, and now it's time to tell the world about it, blow it out in the marketplace and make something big.

Tens of millions of dollars are lost when a company, often flush with cash, attempts to get big before they've nailed the business model or achieved product/market fit.

Perhaps you've seen a similar sign nailed to a telephone pole or posted on the pet supply store bulletin board, "Free Kittens to Good Home".

Nailing pieces together is preferable to staples because of the durability of nailed wood.

You will want to make sure that all platforms are nailed securely to their base.

This type of flooring system is nailed or stapled to the subfloor.

The first row has to be "face nailed" to the subfloor, meaning, the nail heads are exposed.

Install subsequent rows - The remaining rows are nailed at a 45 degree angle to the other boards.

Bale nailed the role as Jim Graham in Spielberg's Empire of the Sun, receiving the award for "Best Performance by a Juvenile Actor" from the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures.

Apply it to the piece of molding nailed in place.

They typically fit tongue and groove, with the tongue portion nailed into the sub-floor and the groove fitting over the tongue and concealing the nails.

Remove the fastener screws from the framing or if the window is nailed in place; you can pry them out with a hammer or cut through the nails using a saber saw.

All of that was nailed down in 18 Wheeler.

The realism in the sense of speed was nailed down.

The wood backs are made soft pine with tin nailed along the sides using tin square nails.

Don't use a tree that has a wooden cross stake nailed to the bottom as a stand.

You can construct this footing easily with a couple of 2x4 blocks nailed together.

Other bingers report the urge to "eat everything that isn't nailed down"--one binger said she would even eat the nails if given the chance.

Once your guest list is nailed down, go shopping for your supplies.

Once you've got that information nailed down, it's time to choose an invitation card!

Certainly boys also like to stay overnight at friend's houses and play video games, download music, watch movies, and devour anything not nailed down.

Once there however, Quinn had nailed the time perfectly as Howie saw our target approach the window!

The scents of fresh bread and some sort of meat cooking nearly nailed her to the ground as she rounded the corner.

Without standing, the man spoke, pointing a long nailed finger.

Several times during summer the trees ought to be regularly examined, and the young shoots respectively topped or thinned out; those that remain are to be nailed to the wall, or braced in with pieces of slender twigs, and the trees ought occasionally to be washed with the garden engine or thoroughly syringed, especially during very hot summers.

The famous theses which Luther nailed to the door of the church at Wittenberg in 1517 cannot be called a confession, but they expressed a protest which could not rest there.

Rodents may be characterized as terrestrial, or in some cases arboreal or aquatic, placental mammals of small or medium size, with a milk and a permanent series of teeth, plantigrade or partially plantigrade, and generally five-toed, clawed (rarely nailed or semi hoofed) feet, clavicles or collar-bones (occasionally imperfect or rudimentary), no canine teeth, and a single pair of lower incisors, opposed by only one similar and functional pair in the upper jaw.

The Schlosskirche, to the doors of which Luther nailed his famous ninety-five theses in 1517, dates from 1439-1499; it was, however, seriously damaged by fire during the bombardment of 1760, was practically rebuilt, and has since (1885-1892) been restored.

These main shoots were not again to be shortened back, but from each of them three young shoots were to be selected and trained in two, on the upper side, one near the base, and the other halfway up, and one on the lower side placed about midway between these two; these with the leading shoot, which was also to be nailed in, made four branches of the current year from each of the ten main branches, and the form of the tree would therefore be that of fig.

The popular feeling for the first time found expression when Luther, on All Saints day 1517, nailed to a church door in Wittenberg the theses in which he contested the doctrine Luther which lay at the root of the scandalous traffic in indulgences carried on in the popes name by Tetzel and his like.