English dictionary

nickel

/'n/I/k/@/l/

Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.

noun

a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite

noun.substance

Synonyms atomic number 28 ni

Source: WordNet 3.0
a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar

noun.possession

Source: WordNet 3.0
five dollars worth of a drug

noun.possession

Examples
A nickel bag of drugs.

A nickel deck of heroin.

Synonyms nickel note

Source: WordNet 3.0
A bright silver-white metallic element. It is of the iron group, and is hard, malleable, and ductile. It occurs combined with sulphur in millerite, with arsenic in the mineral niccolite, and with arsenic and sulphur in nickel glance. Symbol Ni. Atomic weight 58.6.

noun

Source: webster1913