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Meaning of nickel

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  nickel
      n 1: a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is
           resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in
           pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite [syn:
           {nickel}, {Ni}, {atomic number 28}]
      2: a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar
      3: five dollars worth of a drug; "a nickel bag of drugs"; "a
         nickel deck of heroin" [syn: {nickel}, {nickel note}]
      v 1: plate with nickel; "nickel the plate"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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