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# nickel

«nickel» in Mova's school dictionary: **a US (and Canadian) coin worth 5 cents** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (nickel, nickels)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A nickel is a US (and Canadian) coin worth 5 cents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nickel/#m1)

2) Nickel is also a hard, silver-coloured metal, a chemical element; magnets pull on it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nickel/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: a coin worth 5 cents; problems count nickels and find their value; mixed with pennies, dimes and quarters. In everyday life (USA, Canada): small change for a snack or a parking meter. In science: nickel is one of the few metals a magnet attracts (with iron and cobalt); it is used in coins, batteries and steel.

### examples

- Sam has 6 nickels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nickel/#x1)
- How many cents are 4 nickels? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nickel/#x2)
- She paid with 3 nickels and 2 dimes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nickel/#x3)
- A nickel is worth 5 cents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nickel/#x4)
- Twenty nickels make one dollar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nickel/#x5)
- A nickel is bigger than a dime but worth less. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nickel/#x6)
- Nickel is a metal that a magnet can pick up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nickel/#x7)
- He found a nickel under the couch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nickel/#x8)

### note

Hidden number: each nickel = 5 cents, so value = 5 × nickels. Trap: the number of coins is not the amount of money. 20 nickels = 1 dollar. Trap: a nickel (5¢) is larger than a dime (10¢), so size does not show value. Today's US nickel coin is mostly copper, only a quarter nickel metal. In the UK there is no nickel coin; the nearest is a 5p coin.

### In the corpora

- [In the USA a penny is 1 cent, a nickel 5 cents, a dime 10 cents and a quarter 25 cents.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/4/)
- [A penny is worth 1 cent, a nickel 5 cents, a dime 10 cents and a quarter 25 cents.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/91-counting-coins/0/)
- [To count coins, find the value of each kind and add them: 2 quarters, 3 dimes, 2 nickels and 4 pennies](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/91-counting-coins/1/)
- [2 quarters, 3 dimes, 1 nickel and 4 pennies: 50 + 30 + 5 + 4 = 89 cents.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/240-us-coins/2/)
- [Iron, steel, nickel and cobalt are pulled strongly by a magnet; aluminium, copper and gold are not.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/43-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «nickel» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nickel/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.