What's the difference between naif and nail?

Naif


Definition:

  • (a.) Having a true natural luster without being cut; -- applied by jewelers to a precious stone.
  • (a.) Naive; as, a naif remark.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Part of the problem is uncertainty about who has been in charge since the interior minister, Prince Naif, took over the Yemen "file" from the ailing Crown Prince Sultan.
  • (2) But for a man so measured, and with such precision apparent throughout his film-making, the reaction seems perhaps faux-naif.
  • (3) Rob Giason, the acting chief executive of Advance Cairns, which also forms part of a northern Australia alliance of development groups, said the NAIF was a “strong commitment” of the organisation, and it was working on several potential projects.
  • (4) I think what this plan really is focused on is making sure we have a strong partnership between the public and private sectors.” The $5bn NAIF fund is open to economic projects that would otherwise be unlikely to proceed quickly, or at all , without federal assistance, and there was already a “big list” of project proposals submitted to the NAIF, a senior Northern Territory government official told Guardian Australia.
  • (5) But his office later told New Matilda it was still possible the independent board overseeing the $5bn Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) could grant Adani low-interest loans for the railway.
  • (6) It included upgrades to the Tanami Road between Alice Springs and the WA town of Halls Creek, which has also been cited as a potential recipient of NAIF funds.
  • (7) In this way, Scarlett's death might serve a purpose, finally puncturing that quasi-colonial arrogance so endemic in a certain stratum of UK society - that our children can go off anywhere and somehow their Britishness, class and a scuffed copy of Lonely Planet will protect them, decades of increasingly cultured and sophisticated holidays having resulted in a generation of nomad-naifs who seem to think that the entire world is just one big, safe, fluffy Centre Parc, policed by the friendly ghost of Michael Palin.
  • (8) This was in line with the position outlined by the minister for northern Australia, Josh Frydenberg, over the last nine months that while the Carmichael project was “a commercial operation [that] needs to stand on its own feet”, all investment decisions by the NAIF would be made by its board.
  • (9) He "pointedly" told the notoriously reactionary interior minister, Prince Naif, that "no nation could prosper without the intellectual contributions and talent of all its citizens ... (ie women)".
  • (10) Wonderful character, up from Detroit ghetto, sadly seems political naif March 24, 2015
  • (11) 'The sentences,' wrote Larissa MacFarquhar in a brilliant New Yorker profile of Chomsky 10 years ago, 'are accusations of guilt, but not from a position of innocence or hope for something better: Chomsky's sarcasm is the scowl of a fallen world, the sneer of hell's veteran to its appalled naifs' – and thus, in an odd way, static and ungenerative.
  • (12) The government’s consultation paper outlines that NAIF loans – which must be repaid – must make up no more than 50% of the initial investment, that projects be of public benefit located in or beneficial to northern Australia, and include construction or enhancement of economic infrastructure.
  • (13) Both the Australia Institute and Environmental Justice Australia argue that Adani – whose spokesman said a subsidy could fast-track the project but was “not critical” and was sought “because it’s available” – may not meet the NAIF investment criteria .
  • (14) Northern Australia has to promote itself to Asia, investment forum hears Read more Legislation for the NAIF is expected to be introduced in the next parliamentary sittings.
  • (15) He said he expected more to come forward for the federal financing before the NAIF was established.
  • (16) The Northern Australian Infrastructure Facility (NAIF), announced in the federal budget in 2015, seeks to offer concessional loans of at least $50m to projects in the underdeveloped regions of northern Australia.
  • (17) I suspect when the legislation is passed and the [NAIF] board is established … we’ll be getting our skates on.” The WA, NT, and Queensland governments have been invited to put forward two names each for secretariat of the NAIF, which will be based somewhere in the northern region.
  • (18) Yet our predictions have turned out to be far more accurate than those of the exuberant naifs who insisted Tripoli was Cairo all over again and that democracy was at hand.
  • (19) The rail company Aurizon has lodged a rival bid for NAIF funding for a railway line to the Galilee basin, it was reported on Thursday .
  • (20) It was, however, preferable to the bewilderingly moronic manifesto film that preceded Brown's speech, a faux-naif stickmen animation featuring characters called Jack and Jill and James, and made by Ridley Scott Associates.

Nail


Definition:

  • (n.) the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes.
  • (n.) The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.
  • (n.) The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.
  • (n.) A slender, pointed piece of metal, usually with a head, used for fastening pieces of wood or other material together, by being driven into or through them.
  • (a.) A measure of length, being two inches and a quarter, or the sixteenth of a yard.
  • (n.) To fasten with a nail or nails; to close up or secure by means of nails; as, to nail boards to the beams.
  • (n.) To stud or boss with nails, or as with nails.
  • (n.) To fasten, as with a nail; to bind or hold, as to a bargain or to acquiescence in an argument or assertion; hence, to catch; to trap.
  • (n.) To spike, as a cannon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Since fingernail creatinine (Ncr) reflects serum creatinine (Scr) at the time of nail formation, it has been suggested that Ncr level might represent that of Scr around 4 months previously.
  • (2) This article describes a number of syndromes affecting the nail unit.
  • (3) Ender nails as well as three forms of interlocking nails, Brooker-Wills (B-W), Klenm-Schellman (K-S), and Grosse-Kempf (G-K), were implanted in cadaver femora.
  • (4) In the end, the emails from citizen scientists nailed the timing: “looks like it started maybe December 2015”; the severity: “I’ve seen dieback before, but not like this”; and the cause: “guessing it may be the consequence of the four-year drought”.
  • (5) Impairments of hearing, of mobility, of cutting toe-nails and of general physical activity were the conditions which were most frequently named.
  • (6) All nine injuries had antibiotic prophylaxis before and after nail removal.
  • (7) But I'm starting with the job that I can do something about right now – scrabbling around on the floor, picking up three-inch nails and cigarette butts so that the new four-year-olds will have somewhere safe to play at break.
  • (8) A case is reported of a male infant with congenital palmoplantar keratoderma and nail dystrophy who developed progressive perioral and perineal keratoderma.
  • (9) Although the nail changes and systemic complications are probably due to different causes in drug-induced YNS, a careful search for systemic complications are necessary in patients who develop nail changes.
  • (10) Similar cultures from ten additional patients who underwent nail surgery were also performed.
  • (11) It constitutes an alternative to Ender nailing, screw-plate, and nail-plate.
  • (12) Fragments of nail keratin removed with tweezers from patients suffering from alopecia areata were examined using light microscopy and electron microscopy.
  • (13) It's an anxious time for those 180,000 teenagers chasing the last university places in clearing ; nails are bitten to the quick, eyes glazed from internet searching.
  • (14) The phenol and alcohol procedure still remains as one of the most effective and gratifying means of treatment for symptomatic ingrown nails.
  • (15) High level of Ge content was detected from the hair and nail by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry.
  • (16) Yellow nail syndrome is characterized by a yellow discolouration of the nails associated with idiopathic lymphoedema and pleuropulmonary manifestations.
  • (17) I drive past buildings that I know, or assume, to house bedsits, their stucco peeling like eczema, their window frames rattling like old bones, and I cannot help myself from picturing the scene within: a dubious pot on an equally dubious single ring, the female in charge of it half-heartedly stirring its contents at the same time as she files her nails, reads an old Vogue, or chats to some distant parent on the telephone.
  • (18) Median strain values of reamed only and polyacetal-nailed femora ranged from 67 to 90 percent of the intact side.
  • (19) Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority and minority leaders, held two lengthy meetings on Monday in an attempt to nail down terms of a possible compromise.
  • (20) One hundred patients were treated with the Rydell four-flanged nail and 100 with the Gouffon pins.

Words possibly related to "naif"

Words possibly related to "nail"