Nail or Nails may refer to:
In biology
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Nail (anatomy)
A nail is a protective plate characteristically found at the tip of the digit (anatomy), digits (fingers and toes) of all primates, corresponding to the claws in other tetrapod animals. Fingernails and toenails are made of a tough rigid protein ...
, toughened protective protein-keratin (known as alpha-keratin, also found in hair) at the end of an animal or human digit, such as fingernail
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Nail (beak), a plate of hard horny tissue at the tip of some bird beaks
Objects
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Nail (fastener)
In woodworking and construction, a nail is a small object made of metal (or wood, called a tree nail or "trunnel") which is used as a fastener, as a peg to hang something, or sometimes as a decoration. Generally, nails have a sharp point on one e ...
, the pin-shaped fastener used in engineering, woodworking and construction
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Nail (relic), used in the crucifixion of Christ
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The Exchange nails, bronze tables outside of The Exchange, Bristol
Arts and entertainment
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JLA: The Nail series'', a 1998 three-issue comic book miniseries
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''Nail'' (album), by Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel (1985)
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''Nails'' (1979 film), a Canadian short documentary film
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''Nails'' (1992 film), an American TV film
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''Nails'' (2003 film), a Russian psychological horror film
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''Nails'' (2017 film), a horror film directed by Dennis Bartok
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Nails (band), an American powerviolence band founded 2009
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Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails, commonly abbreviated as NIN (stylized as NIИ), is an American industrial rock band formed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1988. Its members are the singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Trent Reznor and his frequent col ...
, an American industrial rock band founded 1988
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The Nails, an American new wave band founded 1976 as The Ravers (name change 1977)
People
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Nail (given name), a list of people with the given name Nail
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Nail (surname), a list of people with the surname Nail or Nails
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Lenny Dykstra, a former Major League Baseball outfielder nicknamed "Nails"
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Samuel Morton (1893–1923), an American mobster nicknamed "Nails"
Businesses
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Nail Brewing, an Australian brewery
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Nail Communications, an American advertising agency
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Nails Inc., an English nail care chain
Other uses
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Nail (unit), an archaic multiplier equal to one sixteenth of a base unit
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Nail, Arkansas, an unincorporated community in the United States
* Nail, project name for the
Heirloom Project mailx Unix computer utility
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Soil nailing, a soil-stabilization technique
See also
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NAIL (disambiguation)
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Naili
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Knell
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Neil (disambiguation) Neil is a masculine given name of Gaelic origin.
Neil may also refer to:
* Neil Road, Singapore
* Neil Island, now Shaheed Island, Andaman Islands
* Nuclear Electric Insurance Limited, a mutual insurance company
* Northeastern Illinois, centered ...
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