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noun
- 1. a fruit consisting of a hard or tough shell around an edible kernel: "he was cracking nuts with his teeth"
- 2. a small flat piece of metal or other material, typically square or hexagonal, with a threaded hole through it for screwing on to a bolt as a fastener: "fix the new pipe and tighten the nuts"
verb
- 1. butt (someone) with one's head: informal British "I thought he was going to nut me in the face"
- 2. gather nuts: archaic "in autumn children would go nutting"
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a person who behaves in a very silly, stupid, or strange way: What kind of nut would leave a car on a railway track? [ C ] informal. someone who is extremely enthusiastic about a particular activity or thing: James is a tennis nut - he plays every day. See also. nuts adjective informal. nut noun (HEAD) [ C ] UK slang. a person's head:
The meaning of NUT is a hard-shelled dry fruit or seed with a separable rind or shell and interior kernel. How to use nut in a sentence.
Nut definition: a dry fruit consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell.. See examples of NUT used in a sentence.
a small piece of metal with a hole through the centre that is screwed onto a bolt to hold pieces of wood, parts of machines, etc. together. to tighten a nut. a wheel nut. a jar full of nuts and bolts. see also lug nut, wing nut Topics Engineering c2. Oxford Collocations Dictionary. (British English, slang) a person’s head or brain.
A nut is a small square or hexagonal block with a threaded hole through the middle for screwing on the end of a bolt. Thread a nut onto the bolt to keep it in place. We supply all kinds of fastenings including nuts and bolts, screws, and many others.
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 nut is a kind of fruit made of a large, edible seed with a very hard shell around it. The nuts that squirrels typically gather (sometimes storing them temporarily in their cheek pouches) are acorns.
