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nut
(nŭt)n.
1.
a. An indehiscent fruit having a single seed enclosed in a hard shell, such as an acorn or hazelnut.
b. The usually edible seed of such a fruit.
c. Any of various other usually edible seeds enclosed in a hard covering such as a seed coat or the stone of a drupe, as in a pine nut, peanut, almond, or walnut.
2. Slang
a. A crazy or eccentric person.
b. An enthusiast; a buff: a movie nut.
3. Informal A difficult endeavor or problem: Painting the closet was a tough nut to crack.
4. Slang The human head.
5. Music
a. A ridge of wood at the top of the fingerboard or neck of a stringed instrument, over which the strings pass.
b. A device at the lower end of the bow for a stringed instrument, used for tightening the hairs.
6. A small block of metal or wood with a central, threaded hole that is designed to fit around and secure a bolt or screw.
7. Slang
a. The cost of launching a business venture.
b. The operating expenses of a theater, theatrical production, or similar enterprise: "The [theater] has simply failed to attract enough paying customers per week to meet its nut" (Variety).
8. Vulgar Slang A testicle.
intr.v. nut·ted, nut·ting, nuts
1. To gather or hunt for nuts.
2. Vulgar Slang To ejaculate.
[Middle English nute, from Old English hnutu.]
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nut
(nʌt)n
1. (Botany) a dry one-seeded indehiscent fruit that usually possesses a woody wall
2. (not in technical use) any similar fruit, such as the walnut, having a hard shell and an edible kernel
3. (Botany) the edible kernel of such a fruit
4. slang
a. an eccentric person
b. a person who is mentally disturbed
5. a slang word for head1
6. do one's nut slang Brit to be extremely angry; go into a rage
7. off one's nut slang mad, crazy, or foolish
8. a person or thing that presents difficulties (esp in the phrase a tough or hard nut to crack)
9. (Mechanical Engineering) a small square or hexagonal block, usually metal, with a threaded hole through the middle for screwing on the end of a bolt
10. (Mountaineering) mountaineering a variously shaped small metal block, usually a wedge or hexagonal prism (originally an ordinary engineer's nut) with a wire or rope loop attached, for jamming into a crack to provide security. Also called: chock
11. (Instruments) music
a. the ledge or ridge at the upper end of the fingerboard of a violin, cello, etc, over which the strings pass to the tuning pegs
b. the end of a violin bow that is held by the player
12. (Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) printing another word for en
13. (Cookery) a small usually gingery biscuit
14. Brit a small piece of coal
vb, nuts, nutting or nutted
15. (intr) to gather nuts
16. (tr) slang to butt (someone) with the head
[Old English hnutu; related to Old Norse hnot, Old High German hnuz (German Nuss)]
ˈnutˌlike adj
NUT
(in Britain) abbreviation for
(Education) National Union of Teachers
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nut
(nʌt)n., v. nut•ted, nut•ting. n.
1. a dry fruit consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell.
2. the kernel itself.
3. a hard, indehiscent, one-seeded fruit, as the chestnut or the acorn.
4. a block, usu. of metal, perforated with a threaded hole so that it can be screwed down on a bolt to hold together objects through which the bolt passes.
5. Slang. a devotee or zealot.
6. Slang.
a. a foolish, silly, or eccentric person.
b. an insane person.
7. Often, nuts.Slang: Usu. Vulgar. the testicles.
8.
a. the operating expenses of a commercial enterprise, usu. figured weekly; break-even point.
b. the total cost of financing a venture.
9. (in an instrument of the violin family) a ledge at the upper end of the fingerboard over which the strings pass.
v.i. 10. to seek for or gather nuts.
Idioms: a hard or tough nut to crack,
a. a difficult problem.
b. a person difficult to understand or convince.
[before 900; Middle English nute, Old English hnutu; c. Middle Dutch note, neute (Dutch noot), Old High German (h)nuz (German Nuss), Old Norse hnot]
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nut
Past participle: nutted
Gerund: nutting
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| Noun | 1. |  nut - usually large hard-shelled seed edible nut - a hard-shelled seed consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell cedar nut, cembra nut - the seed of the Swiss pine mast - nuts of forest trees (as beechnuts and acorns) accumulated on the ground palm kernel, palm nut - seed of any oil palm seed - a small hard fruit nutlet - a small nut |
| 2. | Nut - Egyptian goddess of the sky | |
| 3. | nut - a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt block - a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides); "the pyramids were built with large stone blocks" hex nut - a nut with a hexagonal shape locknut, safety nut - supplementary nut that is screwed down on a primary nut to prevent it from loosening nut and bolt - a fastener made by screwing a nut onto a threaded bolt square nut - nut with a square shape packing nut, stuffing nut - a nut used to tighten a stuffing box butterfly nut, thumbnut, wing screw, wing-nut, wing nut - a threaded nut with winglike projections for thumb and forefinger leverage in turning | |
| 4. | nut - half the width of an em linear measure, linear unit - a unit of measurement of length | |
| 5. |  nut - a whimsically eccentric person | |
| 6. |  nut - someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction; "a golf addict"; "a car nut"; "a bodybuilding freak"; "a news junkie"gym rat - someone who spends all leisure time playing sports or working out in a gymnasium or health spa | |
| 7. |  nut - one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens; "she kicked him in the balls and got away"arteria testicularis, internal spermatic artery, testicular artery - a branch of the aorta supplying the testicles testicular vein, vena testicularis - a vein from the testicles male reproductive system - the reproductive system of males seminiferous tubule - any of the numerous long convoluted tubules in the testis which are the sites where spermatozoa mature cobblers - a man's testicles (from Cockney rhyming slang: cobbler's awl rhymes with ball) male reproductive gland - the reproductive organs of a man undescended testicle, undescended testis - a testis that fails to move into the scrotum as the male fetus develops; "undescended testicles have an increased risk for cancer" epididymis - a convoluted tubule in each testis; carries sperm to vas deferens rete testis - network of tubules carrying sperm from the seminiferous tubules to the vasa efferentia ductus deferens, vas deferens - a duct that carries spermatozoa from the epididymis to the ejaculatory duct spermatic cord - a structure resembling a cord that suspends the testis within the scrotum and contains the vas deferens and other vessels and nerves | |
| Verb | 1. | nut - gather nuts gather, pull together, collect, garner - assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together" |
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nut
noun
2. (Slang) fanatic, addict, enthusiast, freak, buff (informal), devotee a football nut who spends thousands of pounds travelling to watch games
3. (Slang) madman, eccentric, flake (slang, chiefly U.S.), psycho (slang), crank (informal), lunatic, maniac, loony (slang), nutter (Brit. slang), oddball (informal), crackpot (informal), basket case (slang), wacko (slang), nutcase (slang), headcase (informal), headbanger (slang) Some nut with a gun walked in and just opened fire on the diners. (Slang)
nuts and bolts essentials, basics, fundamentals, nitty-gritty (informal), practicalities, ins and outs, details Social skills are the nuts and bolts of social interaction.
Nuts
almond, beech nut, brazil nut, butternut, cashew, chestnut, chinquapin, chincapin, or chinkapin, coco de mer, dwarf chestnut, earthnut or pignut, hazelnut, filbert, cobnut, or cob, macadamia or Queensland nut, marron, peanut, monkey nut, or groundnut, pecan, pine nut or pine kernel, pistachio, quandong, walnutCollins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
nut
noun1. Slang. A person regarded as strange, eccentric, or crazy:
2. Slang. A person who is ardently devoted to a particular subject or activity:
Slang: freak.
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Translations
ořechmatkamatice
nødmøtrik
mutteripähkinäpallipöljäkaali
maticaorahorašasti plod
anyaanyacsavarbolond emberdiófej
kacang
hnetahnotaró
ナッツナット
견과너트
nux
labai trumpairiešutasriešuto kevalasriešutų spaustukaiveržlė
riekstsuzgrieznisuzmava
matica
orehmatica vijaka
nötgalenmutter
แป้นเกลียวของสลักถั่ว
đai ốcđậuhạt
nut
[nʌt]A. N
2. (Bot) → nuez f
to be a hard or tough nut it's a hard or tough nut to crack → es un hueso duro de roer
he's a tough nut → es un tipo duro
to be a hard or tough nut it's a hard or tough nut to crack → es un hueso duro de roer
he's a tough nut → es un tipo duro
3. (= head) → coco m
to do one's nut (Brit) → salirse de sus casillas
to be off one's nut → estar chiflado or chalado
you must be off your nut! → ¿tú estás chalado o qué?
to do one's nut (Brit) → salirse de sus casillas
to be off one's nut → estar chiflado or chalado
you must be off your nut! → ¿tú estás chalado o qué?
4. (= crazy person) → chiflado/a m/f, chalado/a m/f
6. nuts! → ¡narices!
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
nut
[ˈnʌt] n
(= fruit) terme générique désignant les noix, noisettes, etc (= walnut) → noix f (= hazelnut) → noisette f (= peanut) → cacahuète f
a tough nut to crack (= difficult problem) → un casse-tête
a tough nut to crack (= difficult problem) → un casse-tête
(made of metal) → écrou m
nuts and bolts → écrous et boulons
the nuts and bolts of sth (fig) → les détails pratiques de qch
nuts and bolts → écrous et boulons
the nuts and bolts of sth (fig) → les détails pratiques de qch
(= crazy person) → cinglé(e) m/f
modif
[chocolate] → aux noisettes
to have a nut allergy → être allergique aux noix
nut cutlet → galette f végétarienne (à base de cacahuètes, noix, etc)
to have a nut allergy → être allergique aux noix
nut cutlet → galette f végétarienne (à base de cacahuètes, noix, etc)
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
nut
n
(Bot) → Nuss f; (of coal) → kleines Stück; a packet of nuts and raisins → eine Tüte Studentenfutter; a hard or tough nut to crack (fig) → eine harte Nuss
(inf: = head) → Nuss f (inf), → Birne f (inf); use your nut! → streng deinen Grips an! (inf); to be off one’s nut → nicht ganz bei Trost sein (inf), → spinnen (inf); to go off one’s nut → durchdrehen (inf); to do one’s nut (Brit inf) → durchdrehen (inf) ? also nuts
(inf: = person) → Spinner(in) m(f) (inf); he’s a tough nut (inf) → er ist ein harter or zäher Brocken (inf)
(inf: = enthusiast) → Fan m, → Freak m (inf); computer nut → Computerfreak m (inf); to be a car/football nut → autonärrisch/fußballverrückt sein (inf)
nuts pl (sl: = testicles) → Eier pl (sl)
nut
:nutbrown
adj → nussbraun
nutcase
n (inf) → Spinner(in) m(f) (inf)
nutcracker
n, nutcrackers
pl → Nussknacker m
nuthatch
n → Kleiber m
nuthouse
n (inf, lit, fig) → Irrenhaus nt (inf); (lit also) → Klapsmühle f (inf)
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nut
[nʌt]Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
nut
(nat) noun1. a fruit consisting of a single seed in a hard shell. a hazel-nut; a walnut.
2. a small round piece of metal with a hole through it, for screwing on the end of a bolt to hold pieces of wood, metal etc together. a nut and bolt.
ˈnutty adjective1. containing, or tasting of, nuts. a nutty flavour.
2. a slang word for mad. He's quite nutty.
ˈnutcracker noun (usually in plural) an instrument for cracking nuts open. a pair of nutcrackers.
ˈnutshell noun the hard covering of a nut.
in a nutshell expressed, described etc very briefly. I'll tell you the story in a nutshell.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
nut
→ جَوّزَةٌ, صَمُولَةٌ matka, ořech møtrik, nød Mutter, Nuss ξηρός καρπός, παξιμάδι fruto seco, tuerca mutteri, pähkinä écrou, noix matica, orašasti plod dado, noce ナッツ, ナット 견과, 너트 moer, noot mutter, nøtt nakrętka, orzech noz, porca гайка, орех mutter, nöt แป้นเกลียวของสลัก, ถั่ว fındık fıstık, vida somunu đai ốc, hạt 坚果, 螺母Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
nut
n. nuez; [mad] loco-a, maniático-a; [screw] tuerca.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
nut
n nuez fEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.