nickel

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. (uncountable) A silvery elemental metal with an atomic number of 28 and symbol Ni.
2. (Canada, US, countable) A coin worth 5 cents.
3. (US, broadly, countable, slang, uncountable) Five dollars.
4. (US, broadly, countable, slang, uncountable) Five hundred dollars.
5. (US, countable, slang, uncountable) Interstate 5, a highway that runs along the west coast of the United States.
6. (countable, slang, uncountable) A playing card with the rank of five
7. (US, countable, slang, uncountable) A five-year prison sentence.
8. (countable, uncountable) A defensive formation with five defensive backs, one of whom is a nickelback, instead of the more-common four.
9. (UK, countable, uncountable) An airborne propaganda leaflet.

Adj

Synonym of cheap: Low price and/or low value.

Verb

1. (transitive) To plate with nickel.
2. (UK) To distribute airborne leaflet propaganda.

Concepts

nickel

nickeler

ni

pièce

pièce de cinq cents

Ni

Synonymes

Ni

lightweight

cheap

five cent coin

atomic number 28

nickel note

damn

nickel-plate

five cents

plate with nickel

5 cent piece

nickelize

five-cent piece

bucky

jit

nickel plate

sou

fivepence

Traductions

níquel

Nickel

níquel

nichel

nikkel

νικέλιο

níquel

نيكل

nikel

niccolum

nichelio

nickelio

nîkel

niquèl

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈnɪk.əl/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Borrowed from German Nickel, first used in a text by the Swedish mineralogist Axel F. Cronstedt as an abbreviation of Kupfernickel (“a mineral containing copper and nickel”), from Kupfer (“copper”) + Nickel (“insignificant person, goblin”), originally nickname of Nikolaus (“Nicholas”), due to the deceptive silver colour of the relatively valueless ore. Compare cobalt as related to kobolds.