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Definition of 'NUT' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) nut
a dry fruit consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell.

2.  nut
the kernel itself.

3.  nut
a hard, indehiscent, one-seeded fruit, as the chestnut or the acorn.

4.  nut
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.  nut
Slang.

6.  nut
a devotee or zealot.

7.  nut
Slang.

8.  nut
a foolish, silly, or eccentric person.

9.  nut
an insane person.

10.  nut
Often, nuts.Slang: Usu. Vulgar. the testicles.

11.  nut
the operating expenses of a commercial enterprise, usu. figured weekly; break-even point.

12.  nut
the total cost of financing a venture.

13.  nut
(in an instrument of the violin family) a ledge at the upper end of the fingerboard over which the strings pass.

14. (v.i.) nut
to seek for or gather nuts.

15.  nut
a difficult problem.

16.  nut
a person difficult to understand or convince.

Etymology:  (bef. 900; ME nute, OE hnutu; c. MD

Definition of 'NUT' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) nut
usually large hard-shelled seed

2. (noun) Nut
Egyptian goddess of the sky

3. (noun) nut
a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt

4. (noun) en, nut
half the width of an em

5. (noun) crackpot, crank, nut, nut case, fruitcake, screwball
a whimsically eccentric person

6. (noun) addict, nut, freak, junkie, junky
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"

7. (verb) testis, testicle, orchis, ball, ballock, bollock, nut, egg
one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
"she kicked him in the balls and got away"

8. (verb) nut
gather nuts


Definition of 'NUT' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) nut
the hard fruit of some trees with an outer shell that you remove before eating
almonds, pecans, walnuts and other nuts; to crack a nut

2.  nut
a circular piece of metal that holds a bolt in place
Screw the nut onto the bolt.

3.  nut
a person you think is slightly crazy
Some nut backed his car into us.

4.  nut
a health/electronics/computer etc. nut
sb who is very enthusiastic about health, electronics, etc.

5.  nut
a tough/hard nut to crack
sb or sth that is difficult to understand or deal with
Golfers know the course is a tough nut to crack.

6.  nut
the nuts and bolts
the most basic aspects
the nuts and bolts of writing reports


Definition of 'NUT' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) NUT
the fruit of certain trees and shrubs (as of the almond, walnut, hickory, beech, filbert, etc.), consisting of a hard and indehiscent shell inclosing a kernel

2. (noun) NUT
a perforated block (usually a small piece of metal), provided with an internal or female screw thread, used on a bolt, or screw, for tightening or holding something, or for transmitting motion. See Illust. of lst Bolt

3. (noun) NUT
the tumbler of a gunlock

4. (noun) NUT
a projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place

5. (verb) NUT
to gather nuts


Translation of 'NUT' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a fruit consisting of a single seed in a hard shell
a hazel-nut; a walnut.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: neut Arabic flag Arabic: مُكَسَّرات: جَوز، لَوز، ب Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: ядка
Brazilian flag Brazilian: noz Czech flag Czech: ořech German flag German: die Nuß
Danish flag Danish: nød; -nød Greek flag Greek: καρπός με σκληρό περίβλημ Spanish flag Spanish: fruto seco
Estonian flag Estonian: pähkel Farsi flag Farsi: گردو Finnish flag Finnish: pähkinä
French flag French: fruità écale Hebrew flag Hebrew: אֶגוֹז Hindi flag Hindi: सुपारी
Croatian flag Croatian: orah, lješnjak Hungarian flag Hungarian: dió Indonesian flag Indonesian: biji-bijian
Icelandic flag Icelandic: hneta Italian flag Italian: noce, nocciola, nocciolin Japanese flag Japanese: 木の実
Korean flag Korean: 견과(堅果) Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: riešutas Latvian flag Latvian: rieksts
Malay flag Malay: kacang Dutch flag Dutch: noot Norwegian flag Norwegian: nøtt
Polish flag Polish: orzech Persian flag Persian: ،چهارمغز گردو Pashto flag Pashto: چهارمغز
Portuguese flag Portuguese: noz Romanian flag Romanian: nucă; alună Russian flag Russian: орех
Slovak flag Slovak: orech, oriešok Slovenian flag Slovenian: oreh Serbian flag Serbian: orah
Swedish flag Swedish: nöt Thai flag Thai: ผลไม้แห้งเปลือกแข็ง Turkish flag Turkish: sert kabuklu meyve
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 堅果 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: горіх Urdu flag Urdu: سخت چھلکے کا گري دار ميوہ
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: quả hạch Chinese flag Chinese: 坚果

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