Nickel vs Dime - What's the difference?
nickel | dime |
(uncountable) A silvery elemental metal with an atomic number of 28 and symbol Ni.
(US, Canada, countable) A coin worth 5 cents.
Five dollars.
Five hundred dollars.
Interstate 5, a highway that runs along the west coast of the United States.
(slang) A playing card with the rank of five
A five-year prison sentence.
(US) A coin worth one-tenth of a dollar. The physical coin is smaller than a penny.
(Canada) A coin worth one-tenth of a Canadian dollar.
(US, basketball) An assist
(slang) A playing card with the rank of ten
(slang) Ten dollars
(slang) A thousand dollars
(slang) A measurement of illicit drugs (usually marijuana) sold in ten dollar bags.
(slang) Payment responsibility
(slang) A beautiful woman (10 from the 10-point scale)
To inform on, to turn in to the authorities, to rat on, especially anonymously.
In lang=en terms the difference between nickel and dime
is that nickel is a playing card with the rank of five while dime is a beautiful woman (10 from the 10-point scale.As nouns the difference between nickel and dime
is that nickel is a silvery elemental metal with an atomic number of 28 and symbol Ni while dime is a coin worth one-tenth of a dollar. The physical coin is smaller than a penny.As verbs the difference between nickel and dime
is that nickel is to plate with nickel while dime is to inform on, to turn in to the authorities, to rat on, especially anonymously.As proper nouns the difference between nickel and dime
is that nickel is {{surname|patronymic|from=given names} while Dime is an Omotic language, spoken by fewer than 10,000 speakers in Ethiopia.nickel
English
Noun
Derived terms
* antimonial nickel * arsenical nickel * bismuth-nickel * copper-nickel * cupro-nickel * cupronickel * hot nickel * Nichrome * nickel-and-dime * nickel-antigorite * nickel bag * nickel-bloom * nickel bronze * nickel carbonyl * nickel chloride * nickel-chlorite * nickel glance * nickel green * nickel gymnite * nickel hydride * nickel hydroxide * nickelian * nickelic * nickeliferous * nickeline * nickel-in-the-slot * nickel-iron * nickelisation * nickelization * nickelise * nickelize * nickelite * nickel nitrate * nickel note * nickel nurser * nickelocene * nickelodeon * nickelous * nickel ocher * nickel ochre * nickel pyrites * nickel regulus * nickel salt * nickel silver * nickel-skudderudite * nickel spinel * nickel steel * nickel sulfate * nickel sulphate * nickel sulfide * nickel sulphide * nickel tetracarbonyl * not worth a plug nickel * not worth a plugged nickel * plug nickel * plugged nickel * Raney nickel * tetracarbonylnickelReferences
* Weisenberg, Michael (2000)The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523
See also
* false copper * garnierite * pentlandite ----dime
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- Are you traveling on the company's dime ?
- She's a dime piece.
Synonyms
* (coin) ten cent piece (Used in other countries with dollars and cents currencies) * (thousand dollars) grandDerived terms
* a dime's worth * dime bag * dime store * drop a dime * not worth a dime * stop on a dime * turn on a dime * * nickel and dime * dime a dozen * not worth a dime * *See also
* buck * dollar * mill * nickel * quarterReferences
* Weisenberg, Michael (2000)The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523
Etymology 2
From the use of the coin in a payphone to report a crime to the police. US payphones charged 10ยข in almost all jurisdictions until the late 1970s.Verb
(dim)- Somebody dimed on me and I got arrested for selling marijuana.