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 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

• Nails (band), a powerviolence band
• The Nails, a 1980s new wave band from Colorado and then New York
• Nine Inch Nails, an industrial rock band from Ohio
• Nail (album), an album by Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel
• Nail, a Namekian in Dragon Ball
• JLA: The Nail, a three-issue comic book miniseries

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, former Major League Baseball outfielder nicknamed "Nails"

Businesses

• Nail Brewing, an Australian brewery
• Nail Communications, an ad 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, a 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)
• All pages with titles beginning with Nail
• All pages with titles containing Nail
• Knell
• Neil (disambiguation)
• Nell