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NAYL/neɪl/

A nail is the hard part at the end of a finger or a toe: fingernails and toenails. Cut your nails; paint your nails; a broken nail. A finger is the whole long part; the nail is only the hard tip. Nail can also mean a small metal spike you hit into wood — later meaning. Countable: a nail, nails.

Meaning

The hard part at the end of a finger or toe.

Examples

• “She painted her nails red.”
• “He bit his nails in the test.”
• “Her toenails are too long.”

Good to know

fingernail / toenail. Verb later: cut / paint your nails. Later: metal nail for wood.

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