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Definition of nickel in English: nickelnounPlural nickels ˈnɪk(ə)lˈnɪk(ə)l 1mass noun A silvery-white metal, the chemical element of atomic number 28. Nickel occurs naturally in various minerals, and the earth's core is believed to consist largely of metallic iron and nickel. The chief use of nickel is in alloys, especially with iron, to which it imparts strength and resistance to corrosion, and with copper for coinage Example sentencesExamples - But just to make sure, a second batch of the 24-carat gold over silver over nickel over copper statues is being made and will be flown to Los Angeles rather than by road.
- Metals like silver, nickel and gold are a perfect medium for coinage because of their durability and the value accorded by their relative rarity.
- We are already exporting gold and we have substantial resources of silver, uranium, nickel, cobalt, the deposits of which need further investigation.
- Nearby, there could be drums containing potassium, nickel, barium or a little bit of manganese leaching into the pretty stream.
- Incineration of waste fuel oils without abatement leads to a massive increase in the emissions of heavy metals, especially nickel and vanadium.
- The most common of the special elements added to cast iron are nickel, chromium, copper and molybdenum.
- Mineral deposits include oil and natural gas, gold, uranium, bauxite, nickel, and cobalt.
- Base metals such as nickel and copper are facing production deficits (this means that there is more demand than supply).
- When waste oils are burned in incinerators, toxic metals such as nickel, vanadium and cadmium get ensnared in the particles given off into the atmosphere.
- Experts disagree about the possible extent to which nickel in foods can cause an allergic reaction.
- The most common alloying elements are aluminum, nickel, silicon, tin, and zinc.
- Cobalt, nickel and manganese are metals with iron-like properties.
- As well as cadmium in batteries, handsets can contain plastics, ceramics, copper, flame retardants, nickel, zinc, silver and other metals.
- Your continuing problem leads me to believe you may be allergic to nickel, which may be added to gold and silver jewelry.
- If there was a shortage of gold and silver, then cheaper nickel or copper were used in the coins.
- Coins are made using various alloys of metals like nickel, copper and zinc.
- Other plated metals include nickel, copper, and gold.
- The QNI Yabulu refinery is part of BHP-Billiton Stainless Steels and processes nickel and cobalt.
- Other trace elements such as iodine, uranium, nickel, lead, iron, and lithium also exist in the Dead Sea water.
- I'm not aware of any organic molecule that's green without the help of a metal like nickel or copper.
2North American A five-cent coin; five cents. a button the size of a nickel we will see gasoline prices go up about a nickel Example sentencesExamples - Cross the street to save that nickel per gallon when the price is lower.
- I don't know about Britain, but it used to be that one could get one's gas pumped for an extra nickel a gallon.
- For decades mainstream black organizations such as the NAACP relied on the nickels and dimes of poor and working class blacks for their support.
- There on the counter, the boy had left two nickels and five pennies.
- Think of the things she could do with these quarters, these nickels and pennies.
- I got out all my change, and put it on the counter: two pennies, two nickels, two quarters.
- Here we have ten coins: pennies, nickels, and dimes.
- She'd given the restaurant all she had in her purse, a grand total of twenty-seven dollars and thirty six cents, the last dollar and thirty-six cents in pennies and nickels.
- Several informants told of being assessed a fine with fees ranging from pennies to nickels to dimes to quarters for each word of Spanish uttered.
- Every time I'd get a couple nickels scrapped together I'd go down and hang out.
- The woman's face fell as Anne counted out exact change from her mass of nickels, dimes, pennies, and quarters.
- For the change-making task, three quarters, seven dimes, and seven nickels are placed in front of the patient, who then is asked to provide one dollar in change.
- It doesn't matter if it's pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters or hundred dollar bills.
- My neighbors handed over nickels when I appeared at their front doors with the latest issue, a kindness that always sent me back to the typewriter to do it all over again for the coming week.
- Players take four coins of one denomination, four of a second, two of a third, and one of a fourth (for example, four pennies, four nickels, two quarters, and one dollar).
- You have five quarters, two nickels, three dimes and a penny in your pocket.
- One evening while raiding a grocery store cash register with some friends for nickels and dimes, he is arrested and taken to a juvenile prison.
- After a day of collecting ones and fives and nickels and quarters, it strangely looked like a lot of money.
- If you are going to play, it's better to play one quarter on a full pay machine than five nickels on a short pay machine.
- Probably at about age 2, they're really more interested in nickels and dimes and quarters than other kind of shiny round things because we always have it in our pockets, and we're always doing something with it.
verbnickels, nickelled, nickelling, nickeling, nickeled ˈnɪk(ə)lˈnɪk(ə)l [with object]usually as adjective nickelledCoat with nickel. heavily nickelled iron castings Example sentencesExamples - The gun that came out of Devel as a Basic Combat Conversion, shortened and electroless nickeled, looked like it grew that size, but still packed a punch.
- Riggs had executed scrollwork on more than 75 percent of the big Smith and then had it satin nickeled to better show off the engraving.
Synonyms cover, coat, overlay, laminate, veneer
Derivatives adjective nɪˈkɛlɪk Its electrodes are plates of iron and nickelic oxide immersed in a caustic potash electrolyte (this is a base, and not acidic). Example sentencesExamples - In the early 1900's Thomas Edison developed the alkaline cell using iron and nickelic oxide.
- The positive plate is impregnated with nickelous hydroxide (which converts to nickelic hydroxide when charged).
- The amount of free cadmium in the oversized plate is matched to discharge in step with the amount of nickelic hydroxide provided in the positive plate.
- Nickel Cadmium batteries work by oxidizing nickelic hydroxide into nickelous hydroxide, which produces two free electronics for every transaction.
adjective Garrett Solyom, in his book The World of the Javanese Keris, describes the kris as long asymmetrical daggers with distinctive blade-patterning achieved through alternating laminations of iron and pamor (nickelous iron). Example sentencesExamples - The research on heavy mass, large-sized nickelous sulfate crystal materials (shortened as the NSH project), undertaken by the Research Group of Genbo SU with the Fujian Institute of Material Structure, CAS, passed expert appraisal on June 14, 2002.
- The formation of nickelous ions substituted magnetite was enhanced with a decrease in the oxygen bubbling rate.
- The spherical nickelous hydroxide which is dopped, according to present invention, has advantages of uniform size and narrow size distribution.
- Need the right expert in nickelous oxide?
Origin Mid 18th century: shortening of German Kupfernickel, the copper-coloured ore from which nickel was first obtained, from Kupfer 'copper' + Nickel 'demon' (with reference to the ore's failure to yield copper). Rhymes chicle, fickle, mickle, pickle, prickle, sickle, strickle, tickle, trickle Definition of nickel in US English: nickelnounˈnɪk(ə)lˈnik(ə)l 1A silvery-white metal, the chemical element of atomic number 28. Nickel occurs naturally in various minerals, and the earth's core is believed to consist largely of metallic iron and nickel. The chief use of nickel is in alloys, especially with iron, to which it imparts strength and resistance to corrosion, and with copper for coinage Example sentencesExamples - Base metals such as nickel and copper are facing production deficits (this means that there is more demand than supply).
- Mineral deposits include oil and natural gas, gold, uranium, bauxite, nickel, and cobalt.
- Other trace elements such as iodine, uranium, nickel, lead, iron, and lithium also exist in the Dead Sea water.
- I'm not aware of any organic molecule that's green without the help of a metal like nickel or copper.
- We are already exporting gold and we have substantial resources of silver, uranium, nickel, cobalt, the deposits of which need further investigation.
- Other plated metals include nickel, copper, and gold.
- But just to make sure, a second batch of the 24-carat gold over silver over nickel over copper statues is being made and will be flown to Los Angeles rather than by road.
- The most common alloying elements are aluminum, nickel, silicon, tin, and zinc.
- When waste oils are burned in incinerators, toxic metals such as nickel, vanadium and cadmium get ensnared in the particles given off into the atmosphere.
- Nearby, there could be drums containing potassium, nickel, barium or a little bit of manganese leaching into the pretty stream.
- Incineration of waste fuel oils without abatement leads to a massive increase in the emissions of heavy metals, especially nickel and vanadium.
- Cobalt, nickel and manganese are metals with iron-like properties.
- Coins are made using various alloys of metals like nickel, copper and zinc.
- The most common of the special elements added to cast iron are nickel, chromium, copper and molybdenum.
- The QNI Yabulu refinery is part of BHP-Billiton Stainless Steels and processes nickel and cobalt.
- Experts disagree about the possible extent to which nickel in foods can cause an allergic reaction.
- As well as cadmium in batteries, handsets can contain plastics, ceramics, copper, flame retardants, nickel, zinc, silver and other metals.
- If there was a shortage of gold and silver, then cheaper nickel or copper were used in the coins.
- Metals like silver, nickel and gold are a perfect medium for coinage because of their durability and the value accorded by their relative rarity.
- Your continuing problem leads me to believe you may be allergic to nickel, which may be added to gold and silver jewelry.
2North American A five-cent coin; five cents. a button the size of a nickel we will see gasoline prices go up about a nickel Example sentencesExamples - Players take four coins of one denomination, four of a second, two of a third, and one of a fourth (for example, four pennies, four nickels, two quarters, and one dollar).
- You have five quarters, two nickels, three dimes and a penny in your pocket.
- I don't know about Britain, but it used to be that one could get one's gas pumped for an extra nickel a gallon.
- Cross the street to save that nickel per gallon when the price is lower.
- Here we have ten coins: pennies, nickels, and dimes.
- There on the counter, the boy had left two nickels and five pennies.
- For the change-making task, three quarters, seven dimes, and seven nickels are placed in front of the patient, who then is asked to provide one dollar in change.
- For decades mainstream black organizations such as the NAACP relied on the nickels and dimes of poor and working class blacks for their support.
- She'd given the restaurant all she had in her purse, a grand total of twenty-seven dollars and thirty six cents, the last dollar and thirty-six cents in pennies and nickels.
- The woman's face fell as Anne counted out exact change from her mass of nickels, dimes, pennies, and quarters.
- Think of the things she could do with these quarters, these nickels and pennies.
- Every time I'd get a couple nickels scrapped together I'd go down and hang out.
- I got out all my change, and put it on the counter: two pennies, two nickels, two quarters.
- After a day of collecting ones and fives and nickels and quarters, it strangely looked like a lot of money.
- My neighbors handed over nickels when I appeared at their front doors with the latest issue, a kindness that always sent me back to the typewriter to do it all over again for the coming week.
- If you are going to play, it's better to play one quarter on a full pay machine than five nickels on a short pay machine.
- Several informants told of being assessed a fine with fees ranging from pennies to nickels to dimes to quarters for each word of Spanish uttered.
- It doesn't matter if it's pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters or hundred dollar bills.
- Probably at about age 2, they're really more interested in nickels and dimes and quarters than other kind of shiny round things because we always have it in our pockets, and we're always doing something with it.
- One evening while raiding a grocery store cash register with some friends for nickels and dimes, he is arrested and taken to a juvenile prison.
verbˈnɪk(ə)lˈnik(ə)l [with object]Coat with nickel. heavily nickeled iron castings Example sentencesExamples - The gun that came out of Devel as a Basic Combat Conversion, shortened and electroless nickeled, looked like it grew that size, but still packed a punch.
- Riggs had executed scrollwork on more than 75 percent of the big Smith and then had it satin nickeled to better show off the engraving.
Synonyms cover, coat, overlay, laminate, veneer
Origin Mid 18th century: shortening of German Kupfernickel, the copper-colored ore from which nickel was first obtained, from Kupfer ‘copper’ + Nickel ‘demon’ (with reference to the ore's failure to yield copper). |