nickel
要点ニッケル
意味
- ニッケル(金属元素;化学記号はNi)
- (米国・カナダの)5セント白銅貨
- (一般に)ごくわずかの金
- …にニッケルめっきをする
例文
Nickel is a hard, silver-white metal.
ニッケルは硬い銀白色の金属です。
His ideas never fetched him a nickel.
彼の思いつきは一文にもなったことがない。
Then I'd take the nickel out.
それからニッケルを取るよ。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
Borrowed from German Nickel, first used in a text by the Swedish mineralogist Axel F. Cronstedt as an abbreviation of Kupfernickel (“a mineral containing copper and nickel”), from Kupfer (“copper”) + Nickel (“insignificant person, goblin”), originally nickname of Nikolaus (“Nicholas”), due to the deceptive silver colour of the relatively valueless ore. Compare cobalt as related to kobolds.