Word Finder - nut

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A hard-shelled seed.

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There are many sort of nuts: peanuts, cashews, pistachios, Brazil nuts and more.

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A piece of metal, usually square or hexagonal in shape, with a hole through it having machined internal threads, intended to be screwed onto a bolt or other threaded shaft.

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A crazy person.

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He was driving his car like a nut.

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• loony
• nutbag
• nutcase
• nutter

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The head.

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• bonce
• noodle

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Monthly expense to keep a venture running.

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The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.

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A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.

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On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.

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En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.

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An extravagantly fashionable young man.

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(chiefly plural) A testicle.

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I kicked him in the nuts.

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• ball
• bollock
• nads

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Semen, ejaculate.

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Orgasm, ejaculation; especially release of semen

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He just needs a good nut to make him feel better.

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An extreme enthusiast.

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a fashion nut

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A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts [sense #2] were used for this purpose.)

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(only in attributive use) The best possible hand of a certain type, for instance: "nut straight", "nut flush", and "nut full house". Compare nuts.

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nut flush = the best possible flush available

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The tumbler of a gunlock.

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A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.

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(mostly in the form "nutting") To gather nuts.

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To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.

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(mildly) To orgasm; to ejaculate.

She was a nut case.

Only half are black and half nut cases.

And when he came to the nut trees, and saw the shells left by the idle fairies and all the traces of their frolic, he knew exactly how they had acted, and that they had disobeyed him by playing and loitering on their way through the woods.

She's always doing something melodramatic—a real nut case.

The green and angular fruit or "nut" ripens in October; it is about 4 in.

Seed separated from the nut.

It produces tubers of the size of a nut.

Monoecious, and bearing their male flowers in catkins, they are readily distinguished from the rest of the catkin-bearing trees by their peculiar fruit, an acorn or nut, enclosed at the base in a woody cup, formed by the consolidation of numerous involucral bracts developed beneath the fertile flower, simultaneously with a cup-like expansion of the thalamus, to which the bracteal scales are more or less adherent.

Here the place of the jib is taken by two inclined legs joined together at the top and pivoted at the bottom; a third back-leg is connected at the top to the other two, and at the bottom is coupled to a nut which runs on a long horizontal screw.

In the first way the ordinary oil and the coco nut oil are mixed and saponified together as described above.

Nut opened longitudinally.

Caffeine (formerly known as theme) is the alkaloid of tea, and is identical with that of coffee, guarana, mate and kola nut.

The kola nut, chewed by almost every native of the country, is brought from west of the Niger, traders from Ashanti, Accra and Yorubaland frequenting the markets of Jegga.

It feeds upon the substance of the nut.

The more ancient account survived, however, he myth that Osiris, Horus, Seth, Isis and Nephthys (a less who plays but a minor part in the Osiris cycle) were all Iren of the earth-god Keb and the sky-goddess Nut, born on five consecutive days added on at the end of the year (the flied epagomenal days).

Pairs of deities whose personalities are often blended or interchanged are Hathor and Nut, Sakhmi and Pakhe, Seth and Apophis.

He is named in similes as a great warrior, and as such and son of Nut he is identified with the Syrian Baal.

Nut pine, juniper and true sage-brush (Artemisia tridentata) characterize the upper Sonoran, - although the latter grows equally in the transition zone.

Above the firs come the tamarack, constituting the bulk of the lower Alpine forest; the hardy long-lived mountain pine; the red cedar or juniper, growing even on the baldest rocks; the beautiful hemlock spruce; the still higher white pine, nut pine, needle pine; and finally, at io,000 to 12,000 ft., the dwarf pine, which grows in a tangle on the earth over which one walks, and may not show for a century's growth more than a foot of height or an inch of girth.

In the variety C. purpurea, the leaves, as also the pellicle of the kernel and the husk of the nut, are purple, and in C. heterophylla they are thickly clothed with hairs.

Their different forms include the Cosford, which are thin-shelled and oblong; the Downton, or large square nut, having a lancinated husk; the white or Wrotham Park filbert; and the red hazel or filbert, the kernel of which has a red pellicle.

The female lays an egg in the unripe nut, on the kernel of which the larva subsists till September, when it bores its way through the shell, and enters the earth, to undergo transformation into a chrysalis in the ensuing spring.

Squirrels and dormice are very destructive to the nut crop, as they not only take for present consumption but for a store for future supply.

Convex and concave screws are distinguished technically by the respective names of male and female; a short concave screw is called a nut; and when a screw is spoken of without qualification a convex screw is usually understood.

The relation between the advance and the rotation, which compose the motion of a screw working in contact with a fixed screw or helical guide, has already been demonstrated in 32; and the same relation exists between the magnitudes of the rotation of a screw about a fixed axis and the advance of a shifting nut in which it rotates.

The advance of the nut takes place in the opposite direction to that of the advance of the screw in the case in which the nut is fixed.

The pieces may be pairod together as a screw and nut, in which case the relative motion is compounded of turning with sliding.

The upper part of the staple, called the nut, answered the same purpose as the head in the older kind of wooden press, and was in fact a box with a female screw in which the screw of the spindle worked.

In Egypt the relation was curiously reversed; the earth-god Keb was the husband of Nut, the sky, represented sometimes as a woman, overarching the earth and supported on hands and feet, sometimes as a gigantic cow, upheld on the outstretched hands of Shu, the atmosphere.

The chewed material is then placed in a bowl, and water or coco - nut milk is poured over it, the whole is well stirred, and subsequently the woody matter is removed by an ingenious but simple mechanical manipulation.

The fruit in Bambusa, Arundinaria and other genera resembles the grain generally characteristic of grasses, but in Dendrocalamus and others it is a nut, while rarely, as in Melocanna, it is fleshy and suggests an apple in size and appearance.

One of the commonest members of this family in Great Britain is the nut weevil, Balaninus nucum.

When the nuts are about half-grown, the female bores, with its rostrum, a minute hole in the still comparatively soft nut-shell, and deposits an egg within the nut.

As the nut grows the slight puncture becomes almost obliterated, so that it is unnoticed by all but the most observant eye.

The nuts which are infested by this insect are usually the first to fall to the ground; the larva then bores a round hole through the nut shell, by means of its jaws, and creeps out.

Sometimes the pericarp is membranous, sometimes hard, forming a nut, as in some genera of Bambuseae, while in other Bambuseae it becomes thick and fleshy, forming a berry often as large as an apple.

The Society for Public Welfare (Maatschappij tot nut van het Algemeen), founded in 1785, has for its object the promotion of the education and improvement of all classes, and has branches in every part of Holland.

The berries are red or purple in colour, varying in size from that of a pea to a nut.

Among indigenous trees, shrubs and vines that bear edible fruits or nuts the state has the blackberry, grape, pawpaw, persimmon, plum, crabapple, hickory, chestnut and hazel nut.

From the nut of the horse-radish tree ben oil is expressed.

Thus some individual fatty acids, such as stearic acid and arachidic acid (which is characteristic of ground nut oil) can be identified.

In the divine genealogies she is daughter of Keb and Nut (earth and sky).

She's always doing something melodramatic—a real nut case.

Isolation, characterization and expression of a gene coding for a 2S albumin from Bertholletia excelsa (Brazil nut ).

The South American Brazil nut tree is dependant on carpenter bees for its pollination.

Broken rocks then lead to a good grass ledge with nut belay overlooking the gully.

He was a gentle tough nut who went on to be a champion Scottish amateur boxer.

A brazil nut allergen was identified in soya bean genetically engineered with a brazil nut gene (Nordlee et al, 1996 ).

Scatter the roasted butternut squash on top and sprinkle with toasted pine nut kernels and the remaining Parmesan.

Main course was guinea fowl, roast shallots, creamed celeriac, truffled egg, with thyme and pine nut tart.