What is the difference between silvery and nickel?
silvery | nickel |
Resembling silver in color, shiny white.
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
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Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound.
(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.
As a adjective silvery
is resembling silver in color, shiny white.As a noun nickel is
(uncountable) a silvery elemental metal with an atomic number of 28 and symbol ni.As a verb nickel is
to plate with nickel.silvery
English
Adjective
(er)- All the enameled race, whose silvery wing / Waves to the tepid zephyrs of the spring.
Subtle effects, passage=Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.}}
Derived terms
* (silvery acacia) * (silvery flying fox) () * (silvery gade) * silvery gibbon * (silvery gull) * (l) * (silvery hair-grass) * (silvery hair-tail) * (silvery honeysuckle) () * (silvery oak) * (silvery pout) () * (silvery salmon) * (silvery shrew mole) * silvery-tonguednickel
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
