Nail vs Coffin - What's the difference?
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The thin, horny plate at the ends of fingers and toes on humans and some other animals.
The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.
The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.
A spike-shaped metal fastener used for joining wood or similar materials. The nail is generally driven through two or more layers of material by means of impacts from a hammer or other device. It is then held in place by friction.
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A round pedestal on which merchants once carried out their business, such as the four nails outside .
An archaic English unit of length equivalent to 1/20th of an ell or 1/16th of a yard (2.25 inches or 5.715 cm).
To fix (an object) to another object using a nail.
To drive a nail.
To stud or boss with nails, or as if with nails.
* Dryden
(slang) To catch.
* 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
(slang) To expose as a sham.
(slang) To accomplish (a task) completely and successfully.
(slang) To hit (a target) effectively with some weapon.
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(slang) Of a male, to engage in sexual intercourse with.
To spike, as a cannon.
An oblong closed box in which a dead person is buried.
(obsolete) A basket.
* Wycliffe's Bible
A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) A conical paper bag, used by grocers.
The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
(Webster 1913)
To place in a coffin.
* 2007 , (Barbara Everett), "Making and Breaking in Shakespeare's Romances," London Review of Books , 29:6, p. 21:
In transitive terms the difference between nail and coffin
is that nail is to stud or boss with nails, or as if with nails while coffin is to place in a coffin.nail
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) nail, nayl, (etyl) ).Noun
(en noun)- Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
Derived terms
* eightpenny nail * fourpenny nail * hangnail * hard as nails * hit the nail on the head * (l) * nail file / nail-file / nailfile * nail polish * (l) * (l) * on the nail * fingernail * rusty nail * sixpenny nail * spit nails * straw nail * tenpenny nail * toenail * twelvepenny nailSee also
* claw * talonEtymology 2
From (etyl)Verb
(en verb)- He nailed the placard to the post.
- He used the ax head for nailing .
- The rivets of your arms were nailed with gold.
- we'll nail the sophist to it, if we can get him on that charge;
- I really nailed that test.
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- There’s a benefit gala at the Boston Pops tonight, and... well, I’m trying to nail the flautist.'' - Brian Griffin in the TV series ''Family Guy
- (Crabb)
Synonyms
* (to engage in sexual intercourse) bang, fuck, pound, screw, shag (British)See also
* (w) * (w) *Anagrams
* * * * * ----coffin
English
(wikipedia coffin)Alternative forms
* cophin (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- And all ate, and were filled. And they took the reliefs of broken gobbets, twelve coffins full (Matthew 14:20).
- Of the paste a coffin I will rear.
- (Nares)
Usage notes
The type of coffin with upholstery and a half-open lid (mostly in the United States) is called a casket.Synonyms
* casket (US)Derived terms
* coffin bone * coffinlike * coffin nail * coffin ride * coffin ship * encoffin * encoffiner * encoffinmentVerb
(en verb)- The chest in which she is coffined washes ashore and is brought to the Lord Cerimon.