Nail or Nails may refer to:

In biology

* Nail (anatomy), toughened protective protein-keratin (known as alpha-keratin, also found in hair) at the end of an animal digit, such as fingernail *

Nail (beak) The beak, bill, or rostrum is an external anatomical structure found mostly in birds, but also in turtles, non-avian dinosaurs and a few mammals. A beak is used for eating, preening, manipulating objects, killing prey, fighting, probing for food ...

, a plate of hard horny tissue at the tip of some bird beaks

Objects

Nail (fastener) In woodworking and construction, a nail is a small object made of metal (or wood, called a tree nail or "trunnel") which is used as a fastener, as a peg to hang something, or sometimes as a decoration. Generally, nails have a sharp point on one ...

, the pin-shaped fastener used in engineering, woodworking and construction ** Nail (relic), used in the crucifixion of Christ * The Exchange nails, bronze tables outside of The Exchange, Bristol

Arts and entertainment

* '' JLA: The Nail series'', a 1998 three-issue comic book miniseries * '' Nail'', a 1985 album by Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel * '' Nails'', a 1992 American TV movie *

Nails (band) Nails is an American hardcore punk band from Oxnard, California. The group was formed in 2009 by frontman Todd Jones, formerly the guitarist of Terror, along with bassist John Gianelli and drummer Taylor Young of Disgrace. They released their ...

, an American powerviolence band founded 2009 *

Nine Inch Nails Nine Inch Nails, commonly abbreviated as NIN and stylized as NIИ, is an American industrial rock band formed in Cleveland in 1988. Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Trent Reznor was the only permanent member of the band ...

, an American industrial rock band founded 1988 *

The Nails The Nails were originally a five-piece new wave band that formed in Boulder, Colorado in 1976. In Colorado, they were originally named The Ravers. The band members were Marc Campbell (lead vocals, guitar), Dave Kaufman (keyboards), Al Leis (drum ...

, an American new wave band founded 1976 as The Ravers (name change 1977)

People

Nail (given name) Nail is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Nail Bakirov (1952–2010), Russian statistician and professor * Nail Beširović (born 1967), Bosnian retired footballer * Nail Çakırhan (1910–2008), Turkish poet, journalist, arch ...

, a list of people with the given name Nail *

Nail (surname) Nail or Nails is the surname of: * Bethanie Nail (born 1956), Australian retired runner * Bobby Nail (1925-1995), American bridge player * David Nail (born 1979), American country music singer-songwriter * Jimmy Nail (born 1954), English actor and ...

, a list of people with the surname Nail or Nails * Lenny Dykstra, former Major League Baseball outfielder nicknamed "Nails"

Businesses

Nail Brewing Nail Brewing is an Australian brewery and the producer of the world's most expensive beer, the ''Antarctic Nail Ale''. History In 1996 John Stallwood registered the company, ''Nail Brewing Australia''. On 23 March 2000 Norman Moore (Minister f ...

, an Australian brewery *

Nail Communications Nail Communications (commonly referred to as Nail) is an independently owned American advertising agency headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island. Nail was named 2013 Northeast Small Agency of the Year by AdAge. Notable Campaigns In 2010, Nail ...

, an ad agency *

Nails Inc. Nails Inc. is a London, England-based nail polish company founded by Thea Green MBE. The brand has previously collaborated with fashion and beauty insiders including Victoria Beckham, Alexa Chung and Poppy Delevigne. Its nail polish collections c ...

, an English nail care chain

Other uses

Nail (unit) A nail, as a unit of cloth measurement, is generally a sixteenth of a yard or 2 inches (5.715 cm). The nail was apparently named after the practice of hammering brass nails into the counter at shops where cloth was sold. On the other hand, R D ...

, an archaic multiplier equal to one sixteenth of a base unit *

Nail, Arkansas Nail is an unincorporated community in Newton County, Arkansas Newton County is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census, the population was 8,330. The county seat is Jasper ...

, a community in the United States * Nail, project name for the

Heirloom Project The Heirloom Project is a collection of traditional Unix utilities. Most of them are derived from original Unix source code, as released as open-source by Caldera and Sun. The project has the following components: * The Heirloom Toolchest: awk, ...

mailx Unix computer utility *

Soil nailing Soil nailing is a remedial construction measure to treat unstable natural soil slopes or unstable man-made (fill) slopes as a construction technique that allows the safe over-steepening of new or existing soil slopes. The technique involves the in ...