nickelとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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 かつ 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.

発音

• enPR: nĭ'kəl, IPA^(key): /ˈnɪ.kəl/
• 韻: -ɪkəl

名詞

nickel (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 nickels)

2. (uncountable) A silvery elemental metal with an atomic number of 28 and symbol Ni.
4. (US, Canada, countable) A coin worth 5 cents.

   Coordinate term: dime

   • 2017 October 8, “Confederacy”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 26, HBO:

     That is just objectively terrifying regardless of contexts! He looks like if a nickel did cocaine!

5. (US, slang, by extension) Five dollars.
6. (US, slang, by extension) Five hundred dollars.
7. (US, slang, sometimes the nickel または the hot nickel) Interstate 5, a highway that runs along the west coast of the United States.
8. (slang) A playing card with the rank of five
9. (US, slang) A five-year prison sentence.
10. (米国用法 football) A defensive formation with five defensive backs, one of whom is a nickelback, instead of the more common four.

派生語

関連する語

• kupfernickel
• niccolite
• nife
• nitinol

形容詞

nickel (not comparable)

1. (US, idiomatic, somewhat dated) Synonym of cheap: Low price and/or low value.

   Let me give you the nickel tour of the office.

動詞

nickel (三人称単数 現在形 nickels, 現在分詞 nickeling または nickelling, 過去形および過去分詞形 nickeled または nickelled)

1. (transitive) To plate with nickel.

参考

• false copper
• garnierite
• nickelling
• pentlandite

参照

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. →ISBN

アナグラム

• Nickle, inleck, nickle