Nail

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 or human digit, such as fingernail
• Nail (beak), a plate of hard horny tissue at the tip of some bird beaks

Objects

• Nail (fastener), 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), an American powerviolence band founded 2009
• Nine Inch Nails, an American industrial rock band founded 1988
• The Nails, 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), a list of people with the surname Nail or Nails
• Lenny Dykstra, a former Major League Baseball outfielder nicknamed "Nails"
• Samuel Morton (1893–1923), an American mobster nicknamed "Nails"

Businesses

• Nail Brewing, an Australian brewery
• Nail Communications, an American advertising agency
• Nails Inc., an English nail care chain

Other uses

• Nail (unit), an archaic multiplier equal to one sixteenth of a base unit
• Nail, Arkansas, an unincorporated community in the United States
• Nail, project name for the Heirloom Project mailx Unix computer utility
• Soil nailing, a soil-stabilization technique

See also

• NAIL (disambiguation)
• Naili
• All pages with titles beginning with Nail
• All pages with titles containing Nail
• Knell
• Neil (disambiguation)
• Nell