Nail or Nails may refer to:

In biology

Nail (anatomy) A nail is a protective plate characteristically found at the tip of the digit (anatomy), digits (fingers and toes) of all primates, corresponding to the claws in other tetrapod animals. Fingernails and toenails are made of a tough rigid protein ...

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

, 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'' (album), by Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel (1985) * ''Nails'' (1979 film), a Canadian short documentary film * ''Nails'' (1992 film), an American TV film * ''Nails'' (2003 film), a Russian psychological horror film * ''Nails'' (2017 film), a horror film directed by Dennis Bartok *

Nails (band) Nails (stylized in all caps as 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 (band), Terror and Carry On, along with bassist John Gianelli ...

, an American powerviolence band founded 2009 *

Nine Inch Nails Nine Inch Nails, commonly abbreviated as NIN (stylized as NIИ), is an American industrial rock band formed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1988. Its members are the singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Trent Reznor and his frequent col ...

, 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 (dru ...

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

People

* Nail (given name), a list of people with the given name Nail *

Nail (surname) Nail or Nails is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Bethanie Nail (born 1956), Australian retired runner * Bobby Nail (1925–1995), American bridge player * David Nail (born 1979), American country music singer-songwriter * Ji ...

, a list of people with the surname Nail or Nails *

Lenny Dykstra Leonard Kyle Dykstra ( ; born February 10, 1963), nicknamed Nails and Dude, is an American former professional baseball center fielder who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets (1985–1989) and Philadelphia Phillies (1989� ...

, a former Major League Baseball outfielder nicknamed "Nails" *

Samuel Morton Samuel Jules "Nails" Morton (July 3, 1893 – May 13, 1923) was a soldier during World War I and later a high-ranking member of Dean O'Banion's Northside gang. Biography Early life Born in New York City, Morton grew up in Chicago in the Jewish ...

(1893–1923), an American mobster 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 ...

, 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 American advertising agency * Nails Inc., 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 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 7,225. The county seat is Jas ...

, an unincorporated 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 i ...