'Nickel' definitions:
Definition of 'nickel'
From: WordNet
noun
A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite [syn: nickel, Ni, atomic number 28]
noun
A United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar
noun
Five dollars worth of a drug; "a nickel bag of drugs"; "a nickel deck of heroin" [syn: nickel, nickel note]
verb
Plate with nickel; "nickel the plate"
Definition of 'Nickel'
From: GCIDE
- Nickel \Nick"el\, n. [G., fr. Sw. nickel, abbrev. from Sw. kopparnickel copper-nickel, a name given in derision, as it was thought to be a base ore of copper. The origin of the second part of the word is uncertain. Cf. Kupfer-nickel, Copper-nickel.]
- 1. (Chem.) A bright silver-white metallic element of atomic number 28. It is of the iron group, and is hard, malleable, and ductile. It occurs combined with sulphur in millerite, with arsenic in the mineral niccolite, and with arsenic and sulphur in nickel glance. Symbol Ni. Atomic weight 58.70. [1913 Webster]
- Note: On account of its permanence in air and inertness to oxidation, it is used in the smaller coins, for plating iron, brass, etc., for chemical apparatus, and in certain alloys, as german silver. It is magnetic, and is very frequently accompanied by cobalt, both being found in meteoric iron. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A small coin made of or containing nickel; esp., a five-cent piece. [Colloq. U.S.] [1913 Webster]
- Nickel silver, an alloy of nickel, copper, and zinc; -- usually called german silver; called also argentan. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Nickel'
From: Elements
- Symbol: Ni
- Atomic number: 28
- Atomic weight: 58.71
- Malleable ductile silvery metallic transition element. Discovered by A.F. Cronstedt in 1751.
Synonyms of 'nickel'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aureate,
- bar,
- brass,
- brassy,
- brazen,
- bronze,
- bronzy,
- buck,
- bullion,
- C,
- C-note,
- cartwheel,
- cent,
- century,
- coin gold,
- coin silver,
- copper,
- coppery,
- cupreous,
- cuprous,
- dime,
- dollar,
- dollar bill,
- ferrous,
- ferruginous,
- fifty cents,
- fin,
- fish,
- five cents,
- five hundred dollars,
- five-dollar bill,
- five-hundred-dollar bill,
- five-spot,
- fiver,
- four bits,
- frogskin,
- G,
- G-note,
- gilt,
- gold,
- gold nugget,
- gold-filled,
- gold-plated,
- golden,
- grand,
- half a C,
- half dollar,
- half G,
- half grand,
- hundred-dollar bill,
- ingot,
- iron,
- iron man,
- ironlike,
- lead,
- leaden,
- mercurial,
- mercurous,
- mill,
- nickelic,
- nickeline,
- nugget,
- penny,
- pewter,
- pewtery,
- precious metals,
- quarter,
- quicksilver,
- red cent,
- sawbuck,
- silver,
- silver dollar,
- silver-plated,
- silvery,
- skin,
- smacker,
- steel,
- steely,
- ten cents,
- ten-spot,
- tenner,
- thousand dollars,
- thousand-dollar bill,
- tin,
- tinny,
- twenty-dollar bill,
- twenty-five cents,
- two bits,
- two-dollar bill,
- two-spot,
- yard,
- yellow stuff
Words containing 'Nickel'
- Nickelic,
- Nickelous,
- Emerald nickel,
- Nickel silver,
- Nickel steel,
- buffalo nickel,
- nickel alloy,
- nickel bronze,
- nickel note,
- Copper-nickel,
- nickel-and-dime,
- nickel-and-dimed,
- nickel-and-diming,
- nickeled-and-dimed,
- nickeling-and-diming,
- chrome-nickel steel,
- nickel-base alloy,
- nickel-cadmium accumulator,
- nickel-iron accumulator,
- nickel-iron battery