英语词汇“nut”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

nut¹

nounPlural nuts nʌtnət

1A fruit consisting of a hard or tough shell around an edible kernel.
he was cracking nuts with his teeth
Example sentencesExamples
- Rural people are allowed to collect medicinal herbs, mushroom and fungi, edible vegetables, wild nuts, and fruits from forests.
- Hook-billed birds love to explore items with their beak and tongue, and they are naturals at holding and cracking seeds and nuts.
- The other was broad and shallow, heaped with leaves, assorted seeds, nuts, and rose hips.
- The nut's hard ash-coloured shell contains toxic substances similar to what is found in poison ivy and poison oak.
- If you pick a walnut from a walnut tree and find it extremely difficult to crack, it shouldn't come as any surprise, as walnuts are literally one of the toughest nuts to crack.
- We stood sipping under Nikos's walnut tree, cracking nuts and watching Psiloritis flush from pale orange to deep mauve in the light of the setting sun.
- The shells of green nuts are soft, and the skins on the seeds are not fully colored.
- They also make decorative bags of painted nuts, necklaces of shells and nuts, and other items mainly to sell to tourists.
- The fruit of this tree is a nut and is edible if roasted.
- Fifteen behaviors involved foraging using tools, such as probing for ants with sticks and cracking nuts with stones.
- Seeds, nuts, fruits, and berries make up their diet in the wild.
- Cover the foam with a handful or two of nuts in the shell.
- Scientists found that the two macadamia species that produce edible nuts were the most similar to each other.
- Many communities were encouraged to find a cheap art or craft to sell to visitors, such as painted boomerangs, carved emu eggs, boab nuts, and shells and toas.
- And only a director of Burton's Wonka-esque vision would deem it necessary to train 200 real squirrels to shell nuts for one scene.
- They use their massive black bills to twist off and crack open pine nuts, the mainstay of their diet.
- In fall and winter they feed principally on acorns, other nuts, seeds, and fruits.
- Or buy nuts in the shell, so it will take you longer to eat them.
- But in autumn and winter the birds switch to a variety of fruits, seeds and nuts.
- There are many species of walnut trees with edible nuts.
1. 1.1 The hard kernel of a nut.
  savoury snacks like crisps and nuts
  Example sentencesExamples
  Betel leaves, areca nuts, and fruits are distributed to wedding guests and observers.
  Eat a ripe avocado and a handful of raw, unsalted cashew nuts mid-morning and mid-afternoon.
  Fruit, nuts, plain yoghurt and eggs (perhaps with a little wholegrain cereal or toast) are all good foods to fill up on in the morning.
  Besides being fun to eat, pistachio nuts are a boon to our health.
  When we were camping near Mt. Index two weekends ago, I sat near the fire and ate pistachio nuts.
  The nuts, olives and breadsticks are a nice touch.
  Nut allergies can start early on and usually do not disappear in adulthood.
  We would not be restricted to salad vegetables, fruits and nuts, milk, raw fish, and steak tartare.
  My grandparents had a bowl of mixed salted nuts on the table.
  Instead, garnish food with one tablespoon of chopped nuts per person.
  They set out an estimable tuna salad perked up with toasted pine nuts.
  Steer clear of digestion-challenging fatty foods, including butter, cream, olive oil, crisps and nuts.
  Scatter the fruit and toasted nuts over the wet chocolate discs and leave to set.
  Loaded with dried fruits and nuts, this cake is very moist, soft, and satisfying, and on top of that, it's sugar-free.
  It's usually ready-made meals but in today's delivery I've made sure I stuck to healthy food: fruit, vegetables, nuts and raisins.
  The cake was really rich and slightly crumbly because of the high content of nuts (pistachio and almonds), and surprisingly lemony.
  On your next picnic, serve strawberries with a pot of honey and chopped toasted nuts or chocolate shavings.
  Foods that tend not to provoke an insulin response include meat, fish, eggs, green vegetables, most fruits, nuts, beans and pulses.
  In a medium mixing bowl, combine fruits and nuts.
  Traditionally, the betel nut was chewed as a mild stimulant, but this is much less common today.
  Synonyms
  kernel
2. 1.2usually nuts A small lump of something hard or solid, especially coal.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Crunchy cereals, pretzels, soy nuts, veggie chips, even beef or turkey jerky can help satisfy the need to work the jaw while filling the stomach.
2A 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
the final wheel nut was tightened
Example sentencesExamples
- By contrast a search at 900 different locations failed to find any problems similar to the loose sets of nuts thought to be to blame for the Potters Bar crash.
- Slide the ring and nut to the threads and tighten the nut.
- It is a question that applies also to threads in metal, such as bolts and nuts and screw fasteners.
- Machine screws have a uniform shaft diameter and a blunt end, with smaller, less angled threads, designed for use with a matching nut or threaded hole.
- Use a long strip of painted wood or metal for the flag and attach it with a nut and bolt through a drilled hole.
- For this reason, experts recommend using a torque wrench to tighten lug nuts when changing a wheel.
- Since they do not usually mention nuts, presumably the smiths also made the requisite matching nut and included it in the price.
- Tighten the coupling nuts and check for any leaks.
- On Saturday 22nd November 2003 Mr Henderson had torque tightened the wheel nuts as advised after 50 kilometres.
- You don't have to stop and think of which way to turn a nut on a bolt.
- Note that the separate wrench on the small vise is hexagonal and fitted onto a hexagonal nut for tightening the vice.
- A bolt was pushed through the hole and a nut was screwed on the end of it.
- Police suspect the vehicle's wheel nuts were not properly fastened and a case of culpable homicide has been opened.
- They ranged from the production of brass and other non-ferrous metals to screws, nuts, bolts, chains and anchors, pins, and jewellery.
- For example, screw bolts and nuts are known from the Roman era (they have square heads to be turned with a wrench).
- A good toolbox has lots of trays designed to hold all those odd bits of hardware, such as screws and bolts, washers, nuts, and nails.
- The deck is fiberglass composite with balsa wood core and is securely fastened with nuts, bolts, and washers to the inward hull flange.
- Tighten the nuts on the bolts while sitting on it.
- They found two nuts missing from the front stretcher bar of the points and insisted that they should be immediately replaced.
- The airframers checked and tightened every bolt, nut, screw, and cotter key in the system.
1. 2.1 The part at the lower end of the bow of a violin or similar instrument, with a screw for adjusting the tension of the hair.
3informal A crazy or eccentric person.
she would have written me off as a time-wasting nut
Example sentencesExamples
- Some nutcase stuck a colourful religious icon next to the button on Monday which some other nut removed on Tuesday.
- Okay, so Buchanan is a perpetually angry hateful old nut, but still.
- He offers no causes, no motives and no solutions and his two blank, motiveless killers are far scarier than the traditional lone nut.
- Brains, manners, road sense and common sense don't exist in the motorists' world and the biggest nut on a car sits behind that steering wheel.
- It's more that it makes me uncomfortable when we give these glory-seeking nuts the kind of attention they so desperately crave.
- Then more whacko tourists would inundate their pristine land of home-grown nuts and fruitcakes.
- He's such a crazy nut, he would've done the naked pics for each team had he been there.
- Crazy Chomsky-reading nut that he is, he at least deserves some coin for 30 years of honky-tonk labor.
- These Londoners were nuts to begin with - and they're only getting more audacious.
- In a short career, Jolie has taken on more nuts than a Snickers factory.
- You're going to have to spend the whole of his time here playing lovebirds in order to prevent that nut from wanting you to cheat on Scott with him!
- If he did, he'd find, not only arguments like that, but even some nuts pining for the imposition of a fascist state or some other form of dictatorship.
- Suddenly, it occurs to Zip: Irene has a crush on that nut.
- Honey felt another spurt of warmth toward the woman, who was clearly risking that nut's wrath to buy her time.
- As far as I was concerned he was just some crazy nut who spent his days crooning up in the attic where he was changed.
- I got up this morning and was moving around like a crazy nut.
Synonyms
madman/madwoman, maniac, lunatic
eccentric
informal loony, nutcase, nutter, nutjob, cuckoo, fruitcake, head case, basket case, headbanger, schizo, crank, crackpot, oddball, weirdo, weirdie
British informal odd bod
Scottish informal radge
North American informal screwball, crazy, kook, nutso, meshuggener, wacko, wack
US informal wing nut, wackadoo, wackadoodle
North American &amp Australian/New Zealand informal dingbat
1. 3.1with adjective or noun modifier A person who is excessively interested in or enthusiastic about a specified thing.
  a football nut
  Example sentencesExamples
  We even put one of those spoof backwards recordings on the end of the single for a laugh, to give all those Beatles nuts something to do.
  As you'd expect from a sport-obsessed nation, Sydney is a haven for sports nuts, especially since hosting the 2000 Olympics.
  Not every person who is pro-war or anti-gun control is a pro-life, anti-gay religious nut.
  While many of Moore's targets are easy, like the various gun nuts he interviews, a few of the connections he makes left some in the audience cold.
  As a professional nude nut however, Tim was faced with a dilemma.
  She has really beautiful brown hair, and I really do like it, but I am a nut for red hair.
  Being a downhill ski nut and former instructor probably helps, but I think anyone can learn the basics of downhill skating and live to enjoy it.
  It's a limited-growth market - you're not going to all of a sudden discover a vast new audience of car buffs or gun nuts.
  What a weird and wacky world of gun nuts he turned up.
  Shane Filan, a self confessed car nut, has collected some very desirable machines, including a Ferrari and two classic American muscle cars.
  The latest Legacy is, at last, the car that most car nuts wish it always had been.
  It's part of an annual event that attracts 1.5 million car nuts, most of them there to show off their classic cars.
  Well I don't know about that but if some religious nut, er, enthusiast wants me to be happy well, it's better than penile enhancement promos.
  Just consider how the dumbest sports nuts remember every score.
  And since 1993, the impressive grounds of Goodwood House have also been home to the festival, which has become a magnet for car nuts.
  He seems to have gone round the bend and gone after militia crazies and gun nuts, looking for his kind.
  I stepped up and brought forward an old argument I've had with a friend, Richard, who for while was a classical music nut.
  As a self confessed car nut I was in my element examining pictures of Formula 1 cars and drivers, rally cars, scale models, trucks and bikes.
  As a matter of fact, most so called health nuts don't even scratch the surface of healthy living anyway, no matter how much they can bench press.
  Key stylist Joy Zapata is interviewed, as well as the director, Reese Witherspoon, and other hair nuts from Legally Blonde.
  Synonyms
  enthusiast, fan, fanatic, addict, devotee, aficionado
  informal freak, fiend, maniac, buff, -head, a great one for
  North American informal geek, jock
  South African informal fundi
4informal A person's head.
he's aiming to break a record by balancing a car on his nut
Synonyms
head, skull, cranium
informal noodle, noddle, nob, noggin, dome
British informal bonce, napper
Scottish &amp Northern English informal poll
informal, dated bean, conk
archaic pate, Costard, crumpet
5nutsvulgar slang A man's testicles.
6The fixed ridge on the neck of a stringed instrument over which the strings pass.
the positioning allows the strings a straight path over the nut
Example sentencesExamples
- The right-hand bridges usually carry the bass strings, which run across the soundboard to the nut on the opposite edge.

verbnutting, nutted, nuts nʌtnət

1British informal with object Butt (someone) with one's head.
I thought he was going to nut me in the face
Example sentencesExamples
- I could nut him and put him down, or keep negotiating and calming him.
- There's not a single woman cowering under pointless blows, not a single housewife, waitress, charlady or nun being needlessly punched or nutted.
- I'd just left to go to the bar when Mark came storming up to me saying that he'd nutted a guy for calling him a fag!
- How often have you heard of an uncle nutting his nephew?
- Fish is on stage in a Scotland football strip having earlier told the crowd that if he ever meets Ruud van Nistelrooy he will avenge Holland knocking Scotland out of the European Cup with a six-nil drubbing by nutting the said footballer.
- She gave a little laugh through her tears. ‘When Daddy finally got the full picture, he nutted David a good one.’
- Oppens used her elbows, wrists and knuckles, and sometimes her head came so near the keyboard that I suspect she nutted the poor instrument as well.
- The air of unreality continued when Motherwell decided not to defend a Giovanni van Bronckhorst corner which Lorenzo Amoruso nutted goalwards from a narrow angle, with Wallace touching it into the net on the line.
- Who ever nutted him last week will probably have knocked some sense into his peanut brain and should be telling him to sort out the domestic economy.
- One of them grabbed my hand, so I pulled it away and he pushed me against a wall, and then he nutted me and I fell to the floor.
- When the bright Shunsuke Nakamura sent the ball in, Hartson found the space to nut it home.
- Figo, who should have walked for nutting Van Bommel, is just muscled off the ball by Boulahrouz and goes down clutching his face.
- O'Gara pulled back another three points after Baby nutted O'Driscoll at a ruck - why no card from referee Tony Spreadbury?
- Koroman's dangerous cross is nutted behind by Boulharouz for a corner.
- The new half was only six minutes old when he nutted the equaliser from a Steven Smith free-kick.
- Senderos heads away just as Pizarro is about to nut a cross in from about eight yards out.
- France took the lead with a dodgy, early penalty, converted with preposterous calm by Zidane, but Italy deservedly equalised when Marco Materazzi showed what he'd learned on Merseyside by nutting home a cracking equaliser from a corner.
- Even Thierry Henry could have nutted it further than that.
- From a short corner, Totti coaxed in a lovely ball to the far post and Toni, six yards out and free of his marker, nutted it into the corner.
- I went up for the ball and got there first but one of their lads just nutted me in the wrong place.
2usually as noun nuttingarchaic no object Gather nuts.
Example sentencesExamples
- Bill Oddie said at the launch yesterday ‘We want everyone to get out and get nutting.’
- More affluent folks enjoyed nutting as recreation.

Phrases

do one's nut

informal Become extremely angry or agitated.
I hope my mum hasn't heard about this, or she'll be doing her nut
Example sentencesExamples
- She does her nut and wakes him up to challenge him about it.
- The skipper was apparently doing his nut, but while King's Regulations and Admiralty Instructions could be applied to his crew, they didn't have much effect on his passengers.
- I was before I came here, but someone in this computer lab is playing a Shania Twain album on a CD drive and it's doing my nut!
- Rejoice that you do not still live with your mother would would do her nut about the black splashes all over the kitchen.
- Mum took me setting the microwave alight pretty well, I told her when she rang so she could do her nut at the hospital (very quietly) and be over the most of her temper by the time she got home.
- Aforementioned furry rodent re-appears at regular intervals, doing his nut over his unresponsive acorn, the inventive repetition reminiscent of Laurel and Hardy fighting with a piano or endless jousts in classic cartoons.
- It's not just his merciless cheeriness that's doing my nut.
- On the day of the incident he came home to a table full of banana sandwiches and ‘started to do his nut’.
- It was no surprise that Hart was doing his nut on the sidelines.
- But I need to do some digging first to find out what the actual case-law is on these matters before doing my nut about them.

nuts and bolts

informal The basic practical details.
the nuts and bolts of making a movie
Example sentencesExamples
- At the same time he was always interested in practicalities, in the nuts and bolts.
- Her tale, the least interesting of the three, details the nuts and bolts of her past and what it takes to break free for a better future.
- The announcement was long on strategy and short on the nuts and bolts of how the forums will work in practice.
- He tends to hire ambitious people who have their eye on a startup and a knack for the nuts and bolts of practice.
- What I'm attempting to do here is get down to the nuts and bolts.
- Transnational culture-ideology practices are the nuts and bolts and the glue that hold the system together.
- Massenet learned his craft by playing timpani at the Paris Opéra, and really understood the nuts and bolts of theatrical production.
- The book is also a marvelous insight into the nuts and bolts of medical practice.
- Further detailed discussions on the nuts and bolts of the finance deal will now take place with the DfES.
- The internet is the mechanism - the nuts and bolts - for physically connecting computer networks.
Synonyms
practical details, basic details, fundamentals, basics, practicalities, essentials, mechanics

off one's nut

informal Out of one's mind; crazy.
Example sentencesExamples
- You're the one who's gone off your nut about it.
- When I told him I hadn't seen you all day and that I was worried because Rigger wasn't here either he went off his nut!
- He cocked his head and looked at me as if I was off my nut.
- Depending on who you believe, he was either a pedophile, philanderer or just a bit off his nut.
- It's only after the money has been donated that he tells Lil, who pretty much goes off her nut.
- Of course, it was the super-catchy single ‘Crawling In The Dark,’ that generated the most applause, but it was interesting to see that the crowd went off their nut for most of Hoobastank's other material too.
- There are new bands coming through, but no one else seems to realise that rock music is in the middle of a Zeitgeist just now, and kids who are 19 just want to get off their nut and go crazy.
- If you, say, went off your nut and tried to fill up the Houston Astrodome with Blanco Countians, you'd have to clone each one seven times.
- There was a reason I wanted to go on a picnic, even though your parents thought I was off my nut.
- I do believe that man was seriously off his nut, but why create all this?

a tough (or hard) nut

informal Someone who is difficult to deal with; a formidable person.
Example sentencesExamples
- While Spider-man, Daredevil, X-Men, Hulk and Blade were a slam dunk from an entertainment standpoint, the central figure of the current cinematic outing is something of a tough nut.
- And you look at them and you think, ‘OK, this is going to be a hard nut.’
- That's a hard nut and I'm not prepared to say where all those should be, but I think there are places where they may be needed.
- Schumacher may be a tough nut, yet with hindsight that could prove to be a key moment when the drivers line up in Malaysia for the last grand prix of the season on October 22.
- In the MacTavish Cup first-round replay, Loch Carron's difficulties against Kilmallie continued and they found them once again a tough nut.
- The female of the species are supposed to be tough nuts.
- The programme needed a strong story line and, being a bit of a tough nut anyway, she could live with that, she said.
- Romanov is by all accounts a hard nut, not inclined to throw good money after bad.
- Clarke, who died in 1990, was a tough nut in his own right.
- John Cena, the current WWE World Champion, is known around the world as a tough nut, but with the release of his new LP, he may be getting some respect as an MC as well.

a tough (or hard) nut to crack

informal A difficult problem or an opponent that is hard to beat.
Example sentencesExamples
- Upgrading a module that combines PHP with SQL is a tougher nut to crack, and it seems as though the XOOPS people have done an admirable job.
- Nine-year-olds are tough nuts to crack, as Peter Loraine, head of marketing at S Club Juniors' label Polydor, points out.
- He should prove a tough nut to crack over tomorrow's extended three miles.
- I'm sure BB would like to implement something that works well for everyone, but it's a very difficult nut to crack and not something to rush into.
- Oliver Cromwell ordered the walls to be ‘slighted’ - pulled down in parts so that if hostilities broke out again it would not prove so tough a nut to crack.
- Japan has proved a tough nut for Microsoft's console division to crack.
- But he's right about parents being a tougher nut to crack.
- ‘Entertainment is a really, really difficult nut to crack,’ admits Bolland.
- But reforming the media through policy changes may be the toughest nut to crack in the entire U.S. political system.
- Now they, like the rest of Europe, are tough nuts to crack.

use (or take) a sledgehammer to crack a nut

informal Use disproportionately drastic measures to deal with a simple problem.
Example sentencesExamples
- So far we have just been giving warnings because we didn't want to use a sledgehammer to crack a nut - we, like a lot of people in the town, actually support the building of a skatepark for them.
- The MoD was using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
- A charitable view would be to say it cracks a tiny nut with an enormous sledgehammer.
- Mark Oaten, the Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman, warned: ‘Labour seems obsessed with breaking away the traditions of the jury system and is in danger of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.’
- The fact that 11 humps on a short stretch of country road (where, incidentally, it has never been established statistically that an overwhelming accident problem existed in the first place) is a case of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
- While most people are, no doubt, all for continuing to improve standards, it seems the powers that be are using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
- Obsessed as Network Rail is with targets for punctuality, it is taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
- It feels a bit like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
- Your wording in your submission is that, to your mind, the disciplinary process used a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
- ‘I think they are using a sledgehammer to crack a nut here,’ he said.

Derivatives

nut-like

adjective

The theca of Pentremites has a rather nut-like shape, and fossil Pentremites are sometimes inaccurately called ‘fossil nuts’ or ‘fossil hickory nuts’.
Example sentencesExamples
- Its seeds are nut-like, moderately heavy, and are dispersed by gravity and animals, including birds.
- During these complex steps of ribosome biogenesis, parts of the leader rRNA nut-like sequences undergo transient interactions with sequence elements within the first 400 nucleotides from the 5′ end of the mature 16S rRNA.
- The tiny, bead-like amaranth grains have a hearty, nut-like flavor.

Origin

Old English hnutu, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch noot and German Nuss.

The Old English word nut is related to the Latin nux, also meaning ‘nut’, and to nucleus. The informal meanings ‘crazy or eccentric person’ and ‘person who is excessively interested in a particular thing’, both date from the early 20th century. They probably come from the informal sense ‘a person's head’. This latter sense is the one behind phrases such as do your nut, or get very cross, and is the root of nutty meaning ‘mad or crazy’. It is also the source of the verb ‘to nut’, or butt with the head, which is first found in the 1930s. See also fruit. A nutshell has been used since the late 16th century to symbolize compactness or shortness. Shakespeare's Hamlet says, ‘I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.’ The idea is thought to have come from the supposed existence of a copy of Homer's epic poem, the Iliad, which was small enough to fit into an actual nutshell, mentioned by the Roman scholar Pliny (ad 23–79) in his Natural History.

Rhymes

abut, but, butt, cut, glut, gut, hut, intercut, jut, Mut, mutt, phut, putt, rut, scut, shortcut, shut, slut, smut, strut, tut, undercut

Nut²

proper nounnʊtno͞ot

Egyptian Mythology

The sky goddess, thought to swallow the sun at night and give birth to it in the morning.

NUT³

abbreviation

(in the UK) National Union of Teachers.

nut¹

nounnətnət

1A fruit consisting of a hard or tough shell around an edible kernel.
Example sentencesExamples
- We stood sipping under Nikos's walnut tree, cracking nuts and watching Psiloritis flush from pale orange to deep mauve in the light of the setting sun.
- The shells of green nuts are soft, and the skins on the seeds are not fully colored.
- Cover the foam with a handful or two of nuts in the shell.
- The other was broad and shallow, heaped with leaves, assorted seeds, nuts, and rose hips.
- Hook-billed birds love to explore items with their beak and tongue, and they are naturals at holding and cracking seeds and nuts.
- Many communities were encouraged to find a cheap art or craft to sell to visitors, such as painted boomerangs, carved emu eggs, boab nuts, and shells and toas.
- Fifteen behaviors involved foraging using tools, such as probing for ants with sticks and cracking nuts with stones.
- There are many species of walnut trees with edible nuts.
- In fall and winter they feed principally on acorns, other nuts, seeds, and fruits.
- The fruit of this tree is a nut and is edible if roasted.
- But in autumn and winter the birds switch to a variety of fruits, seeds and nuts.
- And only a director of Burton's Wonka-esque vision would deem it necessary to train 200 real squirrels to shell nuts for one scene.
- Rural people are allowed to collect medicinal herbs, mushroom and fungi, edible vegetables, wild nuts, and fruits from forests.
- Or buy nuts in the shell, so it will take you longer to eat them.
- The nut's hard ash-coloured shell contains toxic substances similar to what is found in poison ivy and poison oak.
- Scientists found that the two macadamia species that produce edible nuts were the most similar to each other.
- They use their massive black bills to twist off and crack open pine nuts, the mainstay of their diet.
- Seeds, nuts, fruits, and berries make up their diet in the wild.
- If you pick a walnut from a walnut tree and find it extremely difficult to crack, it shouldn't come as any surprise, as walnuts are literally one of the toughest nuts to crack.
- They also make decorative bags of painted nuts, necklaces of shells and nuts, and other items mainly to sell to tourists.
1. 1.1 The hard kernel of a nut.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Scatter the fruit and toasted nuts over the wet chocolate discs and leave to set.
  It's usually ready-made meals but in today's delivery I've made sure I stuck to healthy food: fruit, vegetables, nuts and raisins.
  Steer clear of digestion-challenging fatty foods, including butter, cream, olive oil, crisps and nuts.
  On your next picnic, serve strawberries with a pot of honey and chopped toasted nuts or chocolate shavings.
  In a medium mixing bowl, combine fruits and nuts.
  When we were camping near Mt. Index two weekends ago, I sat near the fire and ate pistachio nuts.
  Eat a ripe avocado and a handful of raw, unsalted cashew nuts mid-morning and mid-afternoon.
  Nut allergies can start early on and usually do not disappear in adulthood.
  Loaded with dried fruits and nuts, this cake is very moist, soft, and satisfying, and on top of that, it's sugar-free.
  Traditionally, the betel nut was chewed as a mild stimulant, but this is much less common today.
  My grandparents had a bowl of mixed salted nuts on the table.
  We would not be restricted to salad vegetables, fruits and nuts, milk, raw fish, and steak tartare.
  The nuts, olives and breadsticks are a nice touch.
  Besides being fun to eat, pistachio nuts are a boon to our health.
  Fruit, nuts, plain yoghurt and eggs (perhaps with a little wholegrain cereal or toast) are all good foods to fill up on in the morning.
  Foods that tend not to provoke an insulin response include meat, fish, eggs, green vegetables, most fruits, nuts, beans and pulses.
  They set out an estimable tuna salad perked up with toasted pine nuts.
  Instead, garnish food with one tablespoon of chopped nuts per person.
  The cake was really rich and slightly crumbly because of the high content of nuts (pistachio and almonds), and surprisingly lemony.
  Betel leaves, areca nuts, and fruits are distributed to wedding guests and observers.
  Synonyms
  kernel
2A 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.
Example sentencesExamples
- Police suspect the vehicle's wheel nuts were not properly fastened and a case of culpable homicide has been opened.
- Slide the ring and nut to the threads and tighten the nut.
- A bolt was pushed through the hole and a nut was screwed on the end of it.
- Tighten the nuts on the bolts while sitting on it.
- A good toolbox has lots of trays designed to hold all those odd bits of hardware, such as screws and bolts, washers, nuts, and nails.
- Use a long strip of painted wood or metal for the flag and attach it with a nut and bolt through a drilled hole.
- Tighten the coupling nuts and check for any leaks.
- The deck is fiberglass composite with balsa wood core and is securely fastened with nuts, bolts, and washers to the inward hull flange.
- By contrast a search at 900 different locations failed to find any problems similar to the loose sets of nuts thought to be to blame for the Potters Bar crash.
- You don't have to stop and think of which way to turn a nut on a bolt.
- They found two nuts missing from the front stretcher bar of the points and insisted that they should be immediately replaced.
- Note that the separate wrench on the small vise is hexagonal and fitted onto a hexagonal nut for tightening the vice.
- For example, screw bolts and nuts are known from the Roman era (they have square heads to be turned with a wrench).
- The airframers checked and tightened every bolt, nut, screw, and cotter key in the system.
- Since they do not usually mention nuts, presumably the smiths also made the requisite matching nut and included it in the price.
- On Saturday 22nd November 2003 Mr Henderson had torque tightened the wheel nuts as advised after 50 kilometres.
- They ranged from the production of brass and other non-ferrous metals to screws, nuts, bolts, chains and anchors, pins, and jewellery.
- Machine screws have a uniform shaft diameter and a blunt end, with smaller, less angled threads, designed for use with a matching nut or threaded hole.
- It is a question that applies also to threads in metal, such as bolts and nuts and screw fasteners.
- For this reason, experts recommend using a torque wrench to tighten lug nuts when changing a wheel.
1. 2.1 The part at the lower end of the bow of a violin or similar instrument, with a screw for adjusting the tension of the hair.
3informal A crazy or eccentric person.
Example sentencesExamples
- Suddenly, it occurs to Zip: Irene has a crush on that nut.
- Okay, so Buchanan is a perpetually angry hateful old nut, but still.
- In a short career, Jolie has taken on more nuts than a Snickers factory.
- These Londoners were nuts to begin with - and they're only getting more audacious.
- Some nutcase stuck a colourful religious icon next to the button on Monday which some other nut removed on Tuesday.
- It's more that it makes me uncomfortable when we give these glory-seeking nuts the kind of attention they so desperately crave.
- I got up this morning and was moving around like a crazy nut.
- As far as I was concerned he was just some crazy nut who spent his days crooning up in the attic where he was changed.
- Brains, manners, road sense and common sense don't exist in the motorists' world and the biggest nut on a car sits behind that steering wheel.
- If he did, he'd find, not only arguments like that, but even some nuts pining for the imposition of a fascist state or some other form of dictatorship.
- He's such a crazy nut, he would've done the naked pics for each team had he been there.
- You're going to have to spend the whole of his time here playing lovebirds in order to prevent that nut from wanting you to cheat on Scott with him!
- Then more whacko tourists would inundate their pristine land of home-grown nuts and fruitcakes.
- He offers no causes, no motives and no solutions and his two blank, motiveless killers are far scarier than the traditional lone nut.
- Crazy Chomsky-reading nut that he is, he at least deserves some coin for 30 years of honky-tonk labor.
- Honey felt another spurt of warmth toward the woman, who was clearly risking that nut's wrath to buy her time.
Synonyms
madman, madwoman, maniac, lunatic
1. 3.1with adjective or noun modifier A person who is excessively interested in or enthusiastic about a specified thing.
  a football nut
  Example sentencesExamples
  I stepped up and brought forward an old argument I've had with a friend, Richard, who for while was a classical music nut.
  As you'd expect from a sport-obsessed nation, Sydney is a haven for sports nuts, especially since hosting the 2000 Olympics.
  And since 1993, the impressive grounds of Goodwood House have also been home to the festival, which has become a magnet for car nuts.
  Not every person who is pro-war or anti-gun control is a pro-life, anti-gay religious nut.
  Just consider how the dumbest sports nuts remember every score.
  Shane Filan, a self confessed car nut, has collected some very desirable machines, including a Ferrari and two classic American muscle cars.
  As a professional nude nut however, Tim was faced with a dilemma.
  It's part of an annual event that attracts 1.5 million car nuts, most of them there to show off their classic cars.
  We even put one of those spoof backwards recordings on the end of the single for a laugh, to give all those Beatles nuts something to do.
  She has really beautiful brown hair, and I really do like it, but I am a nut for red hair.
  Being a downhill ski nut and former instructor probably helps, but I think anyone can learn the basics of downhill skating and live to enjoy it.
  Well I don't know about that but if some religious nut, er, enthusiast wants me to be happy well, it's better than penile enhancement promos.
  He seems to have gone round the bend and gone after militia crazies and gun nuts, looking for his kind.
  As a matter of fact, most so called health nuts don't even scratch the surface of healthy living anyway, no matter how much they can bench press.
  Key stylist Joy Zapata is interviewed, as well as the director, Reese Witherspoon, and other hair nuts from Legally Blonde.
  The latest Legacy is, at last, the car that most car nuts wish it always had been.
  While many of Moore's targets are easy, like the various gun nuts he interviews, a few of the connections he makes left some in the audience cold.
  What a weird and wacky world of gun nuts he turned up.
  It's a limited-growth market - you're not going to all of a sudden discover a vast new audience of car buffs or gun nuts.
  As a self confessed car nut I was in my element examining pictures of Formula 1 cars and drivers, rally cars, scale models, trucks and bikes.
  Synonyms
  enthusiast, fan, fanatic, addict, devotee, aficionado
4informal A person's head.
Synonyms
head, skull, cranium
5usually nutsvulgar slang Testicles.
6The fixed ridge on the neck of a stringed instrument over which the strings pass.
Example sentencesExamples
- The right-hand bridges usually carry the bass strings, which run across the soundboard to the nut on the opposite edge.

verbnətnət

1usually as noun nuttingarchaic no object Gather nuts.
Example sentencesExamples
- Bill Oddie said at the launch yesterday ‘We want everyone to get out and get nutting.’
- More affluent folks enjoyed nutting as recreation.
2British informal with object Butt (someone) with one's head.
Example sentencesExamples
- From a short corner, Totti coaxed in a lovely ball to the far post and Toni, six yards out and free of his marker, nutted it into the corner.
- When the bright Shunsuke Nakamura sent the ball in, Hartson found the space to nut it home.
- There's not a single woman cowering under pointless blows, not a single housewife, waitress, charlady or nun being needlessly punched or nutted.
- I could nut him and put him down, or keep negotiating and calming him.
- The new half was only six minutes old when he nutted the equaliser from a Steven Smith free-kick.
- One of them grabbed my hand, so I pulled it away and he pushed me against a wall, and then he nutted me and I fell to the floor.
- Oppens used her elbows, wrists and knuckles, and sometimes her head came so near the keyboard that I suspect she nutted the poor instrument as well.
- Koroman's dangerous cross is nutted behind by Boulharouz for a corner.
- I'd just left to go to the bar when Mark came storming up to me saying that he'd nutted a guy for calling him a fag!
- She gave a little laugh through her tears. ‘When Daddy finally got the full picture, he nutted David a good one.’
- The air of unreality continued when Motherwell decided not to defend a Giovanni van Bronckhorst corner which Lorenzo Amoruso nutted goalwards from a narrow angle, with Wallace touching it into the net on the line.
- Even Thierry Henry could have nutted it further than that.
- Senderos heads away just as Pizarro is about to nut a cross in from about eight yards out.
- Who ever nutted him last week will probably have knocked some sense into his peanut brain and should be telling him to sort out the domestic economy.
- How often have you heard of an uncle nutting his nephew?
- Fish is on stage in a Scotland football strip having earlier told the crowd that if he ever meets Ruud van Nistelrooy he will avenge Holland knocking Scotland out of the European Cup with a six-nil drubbing by nutting the said footballer.
- O'Gara pulled back another three points after Baby nutted O'Driscoll at a ruck - why no card from referee Tony Spreadbury?
- I went up for the ball and got there first but one of their lads just nutted me in the wrong place.
- France took the lead with a dodgy, early penalty, converted with preposterous calm by Zidane, but Italy deservedly equalised when Marco Materazzi showed what he'd learned on Merseyside by nutting home a cracking equaliser from a corner.
- Figo, who should have walked for nutting Van Bommel, is just muscled off the ball by Boulahrouz and goes down clutching his face.

Phrases

do one's nut

informal Be extremely angry or agitated.
Example sentencesExamples
- Rejoice that you do not still live with your mother would would do her nut about the black splashes all over the kitchen.
- Mum took me setting the microwave alight pretty well, I told her when she rang so she could do her nut at the hospital (very quietly) and be over the most of her temper by the time she got home.
- Aforementioned furry rodent re-appears at regular intervals, doing his nut over his unresponsive acorn, the inventive repetition reminiscent of Laurel and Hardy fighting with a piano or endless jousts in classic cartoons.
- But I need to do some digging first to find out what the actual case-law is on these matters before doing my nut about them.
- The skipper was apparently doing his nut, but while King's Regulations and Admiralty Instructions could be applied to his crew, they didn't have much effect on his passengers.
- It was no surprise that Hart was doing his nut on the sidelines.
- It's not just his merciless cheeriness that's doing my nut.
- I was before I came here, but someone in this computer lab is playing a Shania Twain album on a CD drive and it's doing my nut!
- She does her nut and wakes him up to challenge him about it.
- On the day of the incident he came home to a table full of banana sandwiches and ‘started to do his nut’.

nuts and bolts

informal The basic practical details.
the nuts and bolts of public policy
Example sentencesExamples
- The internet is the mechanism - the nuts and bolts - for physically connecting computer networks.
- The book is also a marvelous insight into the nuts and bolts of medical practice.
- Transnational culture-ideology practices are the nuts and bolts and the glue that hold the system together.
- He tends to hire ambitious people who have their eye on a startup and a knack for the nuts and bolts of practice.
- Massenet learned his craft by playing timpani at the Paris Opéra, and really understood the nuts and bolts of theatrical production.
- What I'm attempting to do here is get down to the nuts and bolts.
- At the same time he was always interested in practicalities, in the nuts and bolts.
- Further detailed discussions on the nuts and bolts of the finance deal will now take place with the DfES.
- Her tale, the least interesting of the three, details the nuts and bolts of her past and what it takes to break free for a better future.
- The announcement was long on strategy and short on the nuts and bolts of how the forums will work in practice.
Synonyms
practical details, basic details, fundamentals, basics, practicalities, essentials, mechanics

off one's nut

informal Out of one's mind; crazy.
Example sentencesExamples
- He cocked his head and looked at me as if I was off my nut.
- It's only after the money has been donated that he tells Lil, who pretty much goes off her nut.
- There was a reason I wanted to go on a picnic, even though your parents thought I was off my nut.
- Of course, it was the super-catchy single ‘Crawling In The Dark,’ that generated the most applause, but it was interesting to see that the crowd went off their nut for most of Hoobastank's other material too.
- Depending on who you believe, he was either a pedophile, philanderer or just a bit off his nut.
- You're the one who's gone off your nut about it.
- There are new bands coming through, but no one else seems to realise that rock music is in the middle of a Zeitgeist just now, and kids who are 19 just want to get off their nut and go crazy.
- When I told him I hadn't seen you all day and that I was worried because Rigger wasn't here either he went off his nut!
- I do believe that man was seriously off his nut, but why create all this?
- If you, say, went off your nut and tried to fill up the Houston Astrodome with Blanco Countians, you'd have to clone each one seven times.

a tough (or hard) nut

informal Someone who is difficult to deal with; a formidable person.
Example sentencesExamples
- Schumacher may be a tough nut, yet with hindsight that could prove to be a key moment when the drivers line up in Malaysia for the last grand prix of the season on October 22.
- In the MacTavish Cup first-round replay, Loch Carron's difficulties against Kilmallie continued and they found them once again a tough nut.
- That's a hard nut and I'm not prepared to say where all those should be, but I think there are places where they may be needed.
- Romanov is by all accounts a hard nut, not inclined to throw good money after bad.
- Clarke, who died in 1990, was a tough nut in his own right.
- And you look at them and you think, ‘OK, this is going to be a hard nut.’
- John Cena, the current WWE World Champion, is known around the world as a tough nut, but with the release of his new LP, he may be getting some respect as an MC as well.
- While Spider-man, Daredevil, X-Men, Hulk and Blade were a slam dunk from an entertainment standpoint, the central figure of the current cinematic outing is something of a tough nut.
- The programme needed a strong story line and, being a bit of a tough nut anyway, she could live with that, she said.
- The female of the species are supposed to be tough nuts.

a tough (or hard) nut to crack

informal A difficult problem or an opponent that is hard to beat.
Example sentencesExamples
- Oliver Cromwell ordered the walls to be ‘slighted’ - pulled down in parts so that if hostilities broke out again it would not prove so tough a nut to crack.
- He should prove a tough nut to crack over tomorrow's extended three miles.
- ‘Entertainment is a really, really difficult nut to crack,’ admits Bolland.
- Upgrading a module that combines PHP with SQL is a tougher nut to crack, and it seems as though the XOOPS people have done an admirable job.
- Nine-year-olds are tough nuts to crack, as Peter Loraine, head of marketing at S Club Juniors' label Polydor, points out.
- Now they, like the rest of Europe, are tough nuts to crack.
- But he's right about parents being a tougher nut to crack.
- I'm sure BB would like to implement something that works well for everyone, but it's a very difficult nut to crack and not something to rush into.
- But reforming the media through policy changes may be the toughest nut to crack in the entire U.S. political system.
- Japan has proved a tough nut for Microsoft's console division to crack.

Origin

Old English hnutu, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch noot and German Nuss.

Nut²

proper nounno͞ot

Egyptian Mythology

The sky goddess, thought to swallow the sun at night and give birth to it in the morning.

单词	nut
释义	nut¹ nounPlural nuts nʌtnət 1A fruit consisting of a hard or tough shell around an edible kernel. he was cracking nuts with his teeth Example sentencesExamples Rural people are allowed to collect medicinal herbs, mushroom and fungi, edible vegetables, wild nuts, and fruits from forests. Hook-billed birds love to explore items with their beak and tongue, and they are naturals at holding and cracking seeds and nuts. The other was broad and shallow, heaped with leaves, assorted seeds, nuts, and rose hips. The nut's hard ash-coloured shell contains toxic substances similar to what is found in poison ivy and poison oak. If you pick a walnut from a walnut tree and find it extremely difficult to crack, it shouldn't come as any surprise, as walnuts are literally one of the toughest nuts to crack. We stood sipping under Nikos's walnut tree, cracking nuts and watching Psiloritis flush from pale orange to deep mauve in the light of the setting sun. The shells of green nuts are soft, and the skins on the seeds are not fully colored. They also make decorative bags of painted nuts, necklaces of shells and nuts, and other items mainly to sell to tourists. The fruit of this tree is a nut and is edible if roasted. Fifteen behaviors involved foraging using tools, such as probing for ants with sticks and cracking nuts with stones. Seeds, nuts, fruits, and berries make up their diet in the wild. Cover the foam with a handful or two of nuts in the shell. Scientists found that the two macadamia species that produce edible nuts were the most similar to each other. Many communities were encouraged to find a cheap art or craft to sell to visitors, such as painted boomerangs, carved emu eggs, boab nuts, and shells and toas. And only a director of Burton's Wonka-esque vision would deem it necessary to train 200 real squirrels to shell nuts for one scene. They use their massive black bills to twist off and crack open pine nuts, the mainstay of their diet. In fall and winter they feed principally on acorns, other nuts, seeds, and fruits. Or buy nuts in the shell, so it will take you longer to eat them. But in autumn and winter the birds switch to a variety of fruits, seeds and nuts. There are many species of walnut trees with edible nuts. 1.1 The hard kernel of a nut. savoury snacks like crisps and nuts Example sentencesExamples Betel leaves, areca nuts, and fruits are distributed to wedding guests and observers. Eat a ripe avocado and a handful of raw, unsalted cashew nuts mid-morning and mid-afternoon. Fruit, nuts, plain yoghurt and eggs (perhaps with a little wholegrain cereal or toast) are all good foods to fill up on in the morning. Besides being fun to eat, pistachio nuts are a boon to our health. When we were camping near Mt. Index two weekends ago, I sat near the fire and ate pistachio nuts. The nuts, olives and breadsticks are a nice touch. Nut allergies can start early on and usually do not disappear in adulthood. We would not be restricted to salad vegetables, fruits and nuts, milk, raw fish, and steak tartare. My grandparents had a bowl of mixed salted nuts on the table. Instead, garnish food with one tablespoon of chopped nuts per person. They set out an estimable tuna salad perked up with toasted pine nuts. Steer clear of digestion-challenging fatty foods, including butter, cream, olive oil, crisps and nuts. Scatter the fruit and toasted nuts over the wet chocolate discs and leave to set. Loaded with dried fruits and nuts, this cake is very moist, soft, and satisfying, and on top of that, it's sugar-free. It's usually ready-made meals but in today's delivery I've made sure I stuck to healthy food: fruit, vegetables, nuts and raisins. The cake was really rich and slightly crumbly because of the high content of nuts (pistachio and almonds), and surprisingly lemony. On your next picnic, serve strawberries with a pot of honey and chopped toasted nuts or chocolate shavings. Foods that tend not to provoke an insulin response include meat, fish, eggs, green vegetables, most fruits, nuts, beans and pulses. In a medium mixing bowl, combine fruits and nuts. Traditionally, the betel nut was chewed as a mild stimulant, but this is much less common today. Synonyms kernel 1.2usually nuts A small lump of something hard or solid, especially coal. Example sentencesExamples Crunchy cereals, pretzels, soy nuts, veggie chips, even beef or turkey jerky can help satisfy the need to work the jaw while filling the stomach. 2A 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 the final wheel nut was tightened Example sentencesExamples By contrast a search at 900 different locations failed to find any problems similar to the loose sets of nuts thought to be to blame for the Potters Bar crash. Slide the ring and nut to the threads and tighten the nut. It is a question that applies also to threads in metal, such as bolts and nuts and screw fasteners. Machine screws have a uniform shaft diameter and a blunt end, with smaller, less angled threads, designed for use with a matching nut or threaded hole. Use a long strip of painted wood or metal for the flag and attach it with a nut and bolt through a drilled hole. For this reason, experts recommend using a torque wrench to tighten lug nuts when changing a wheel. Since they do not usually mention nuts, presumably the smiths also made the requisite matching nut and included it in the price. Tighten the coupling nuts and check for any leaks. On Saturday 22nd November 2003 Mr Henderson had torque tightened the wheel nuts as advised after 50 kilometres. You don't have to stop and think of which way to turn a nut on a bolt. Note that the separate wrench on the small vise is hexagonal and fitted onto a hexagonal nut for tightening the vice. A bolt was pushed through the hole and a nut was screwed on the end of it. Police suspect the vehicle's wheel nuts were not properly fastened and a case of culpable homicide has been opened. They ranged from the production of brass and other non-ferrous metals to screws, nuts, bolts, chains and anchors, pins, and jewellery. For example, screw bolts and nuts are known from the Roman era (they have square heads to be turned with a wrench). A good toolbox has lots of trays designed to hold all those odd bits of hardware, such as screws and bolts, washers, nuts, and nails. The deck is fiberglass composite with balsa wood core and is securely fastened with nuts, bolts, and washers to the inward hull flange. Tighten the nuts on the bolts while sitting on it. They found two nuts missing from the front stretcher bar of the points and insisted that they should be immediately replaced. The airframers checked and tightened every bolt, nut, screw, and cotter key in the system. 2.1 The part at the lower end of the bow of a violin or similar instrument, with a screw for adjusting the tension of the hair. 3informal A crazy or eccentric person. she would have written me off as a time-wasting nut Example sentencesExamples Some nutcase stuck a colourful religious icon next to the button on Monday which some other nut removed on Tuesday. Okay, so Buchanan is a perpetually angry hateful old nut, but still. He offers no causes, no motives and no solutions and his two blank, motiveless killers are far scarier than the traditional lone nut. Brains, manners, road sense and common sense don't exist in the motorists' world and the biggest nut on a car sits behind that steering wheel. It's more that it makes me uncomfortable when we give these glory-seeking nuts the kind of attention they so desperately crave. Then more whacko tourists would inundate their pristine land of home-grown nuts and fruitcakes. He's such a crazy nut, he would've done the naked pics for each team had he been there. Crazy Chomsky-reading nut that he is, he at least deserves some coin for 30 years of honky-tonk labor. These Londoners were nuts to begin with - and they're only getting more audacious. In a short career, Jolie has taken on more nuts than a Snickers factory. You're going to have to spend the whole of his time here playing lovebirds in order to prevent that nut from wanting you to cheat on Scott with him! If he did, he'd find, not only arguments like that, but even some nuts pining for the imposition of a fascist state or some other form of dictatorship. Suddenly, it occurs to Zip: Irene has a crush on that nut. Honey felt another spurt of warmth toward the woman, who was clearly risking that nut's wrath to buy her time. As far as I was concerned he was just some crazy nut who spent his days crooning up in the attic where he was changed. I got up this morning and was moving around like a crazy nut. Synonyms madman/madwoman, maniac, lunatic eccentric informal loony, nutcase, nutter, nutjob, cuckoo, fruitcake, head case, basket case, headbanger, schizo, crank, crackpot, oddball, weirdo, weirdie British informal odd bod Scottish informal radge North American informal screwball, crazy, kook, nutso, meshuggener, wacko, wack US informal wing nut, wackadoo, wackadoodle North American &amp Australian/New Zealand informal dingbat 3.1with adjective or noun modifier A person who is excessively interested in or enthusiastic about a specified thing. a football nut Example sentencesExamples We even put one of those spoof backwards recordings on the end of the single for a laugh, to give all those Beatles nuts something to do. As you'd expect from a sport-obsessed nation, Sydney is a haven for sports nuts, especially since hosting the 2000 Olympics. Not every person who is pro-war or anti-gun control is a pro-life, anti-gay religious nut. While many of Moore's targets are easy, like the various gun nuts he interviews, a few of the connections he makes left some in the audience cold. As a professional nude nut however, Tim was faced with a dilemma. She has really beautiful brown hair, and I really do like it, but I am a nut for red hair. Being a downhill ski nut and former instructor probably helps, but I think anyone can learn the basics of downhill skating and live to enjoy it. It's a limited-growth market - you're not going to all of a sudden discover a vast new audience of car buffs or gun nuts. What a weird and wacky world of gun nuts he turned up. Shane Filan, a self confessed car nut, has collected some very desirable machines, including a Ferrari and two classic American muscle cars. The latest Legacy is, at last, the car that most car nuts wish it always had been. It's part of an annual event that attracts 1.5 million car nuts, most of them there to show off their classic cars. Well I don't know about that but if some religious nut, er, enthusiast wants me to be happy well, it's better than penile enhancement promos. Just consider how the dumbest sports nuts remember every score. And since 1993, the impressive grounds of Goodwood House have also been home to the festival, which has become a magnet for car nuts. He seems to have gone round the bend and gone after militia crazies and gun nuts, looking for his kind. I stepped up and brought forward an old argument I've had with a friend, Richard, who for while was a classical music nut. As a self confessed car nut I was in my element examining pictures of Formula 1 cars and drivers, rally cars, scale models, trucks and bikes. As a matter of fact, most so called health nuts don't even scratch the surface of healthy living anyway, no matter how much they can bench press. Key stylist Joy Zapata is interviewed, as well as the director, Reese Witherspoon, and other hair nuts from Legally Blonde. Synonyms enthusiast, fan, fanatic, addict, devotee, aficionado informal freak, fiend, maniac, buff, -head, a great one for North American informal geek, jock South African informal fundi 4informal A person's head. he's aiming to break a record by balancing a car on his nut Synonyms head, skull, cranium informal noodle, noddle, nob, noggin, dome British informal bonce, napper Scottish &amp Northern English informal poll informal, dated bean, conk archaic pate, Costard, crumpet 5nutsvulgar slang A man's testicles. 6The fixed ridge on the neck of a stringed instrument over which the strings pass. the positioning allows the strings a straight path over the nut Example sentencesExamples The right-hand bridges usually carry the bass strings, which run across the soundboard to the nut on the opposite edge. verbnutting, nutted, nuts nʌtnət 1British informal with object Butt (someone) with one's head. I thought he was going to nut me in the face Example sentencesExamples I could nut him and put him down, or keep negotiating and calming him. There's not a single woman cowering under pointless blows, not a single housewife, waitress, charlady or nun being needlessly punched or nutted. I'd just left to go to the bar when Mark came storming up to me saying that he'd nutted a guy for calling him a fag! How often have you heard of an uncle nutting his nephew? Fish is on stage in a Scotland football strip having earlier told the crowd that if he ever meets Ruud van Nistelrooy he will avenge Holland knocking Scotland out of the European Cup with a six-nil drubbing by nutting the said footballer. She gave a little laugh through her tears. ‘When Daddy finally got the full picture, he nutted David a good one.’ Oppens used her elbows, wrists and knuckles, and sometimes her head came so near the keyboard that I suspect she nutted the poor instrument as well. The air of unreality continued when Motherwell decided not to defend a Giovanni van Bronckhorst corner which Lorenzo Amoruso nutted goalwards from a narrow angle, with Wallace touching it into the net on the line. Who ever nutted him last week will probably have knocked some sense into his peanut brain and should be telling him to sort out the domestic economy. One of them grabbed my hand, so I pulled it away and he pushed me against a wall, and then he nutted me and I fell to the floor. When the bright Shunsuke Nakamura sent the ball in, Hartson found the space to nut it home. Figo, who should have walked for nutting Van Bommel, is just muscled off the ball by Boulahrouz and goes down clutching his face. O'Gara pulled back another three points after Baby nutted O'Driscoll at a ruck - why no card from referee Tony Spreadbury? Koroman's dangerous cross is nutted behind by Boulharouz for a corner. The new half was only six minutes old when he nutted the equaliser from a Steven Smith free-kick. Senderos heads away just as Pizarro is about to nut a cross in from about eight yards out. France took the lead with a dodgy, early penalty, converted with preposterous calm by Zidane, but Italy deservedly equalised when Marco Materazzi showed what he'd learned on Merseyside by nutting home a cracking equaliser from a corner. Even Thierry Henry could have nutted it further than that. From a short corner, Totti coaxed in a lovely ball to the far post and Toni, six yards out and free of his marker, nutted it into the corner. I went up for the ball and got there first but one of their lads just nutted me in the wrong place. 2usually as noun nuttingarchaic no object Gather nuts. Example sentencesExamples Bill Oddie said at the launch yesterday ‘We want everyone to get out and get nutting.’ More affluent folks enjoyed nutting as recreation. Phrases do one's nut informal Become extremely angry or agitated. I hope my mum hasn't heard about this, or she'll be doing her nut Example sentencesExamples She does her nut and wakes him up to challenge him about it. The skipper was apparently doing his nut, but while King's Regulations and Admiralty Instructions could be applied to his crew, they didn't have much effect on his passengers. I was before I came here, but someone in this computer lab is playing a Shania Twain album on a CD drive and it's doing my nut! Rejoice that you do not still live with your mother would would do her nut about the black splashes all over the kitchen. Mum took me setting the microwave alight pretty well, I told her when she rang so she could do her nut at the hospital (very quietly) and be over the most of her temper by the time she got home. Aforementioned furry rodent re-appears at regular intervals, doing his nut over his unresponsive acorn, the inventive repetition reminiscent of Laurel and Hardy fighting with a piano or endless jousts in classic cartoons. It's not just his merciless cheeriness that's doing my nut. On the day of the incident he came home to a table full of banana sandwiches and ‘started to do his nut’. It was no surprise that Hart was doing his nut on the sidelines. But I need to do some digging first to find out what the actual case-law is on these matters before doing my nut about them. nuts and bolts informal The basic practical details. the nuts and bolts of making a movie Example sentencesExamples At the same time he was always interested in practicalities, in the nuts and bolts. Her tale, the least interesting of the three, details the nuts and bolts of her past and what it takes to break free for a better future. The announcement was long on strategy and short on the nuts and bolts of how the forums will work in practice. He tends to hire ambitious people who have their eye on a startup and a knack for the nuts and bolts of practice. What I'm attempting to do here is get down to the nuts and bolts. Transnational culture-ideology practices are the nuts and bolts and the glue that hold the system together. Massenet learned his craft by playing timpani at the Paris Opéra, and really understood the nuts and bolts of theatrical production. The book is also a marvelous insight into the nuts and bolts of medical practice. Further detailed discussions on the nuts and bolts of the finance deal will now take place with the DfES. The internet is the mechanism - the nuts and bolts - for physically connecting computer networks. Synonyms practical details, basic details, fundamentals, basics, practicalities, essentials, mechanics off one's nut informal Out of one's mind; crazy. Example sentencesExamples You're the one who's gone off your nut about it. When I told him I hadn't seen you all day and that I was worried because Rigger wasn't here either he went off his nut! He cocked his head and looked at me as if I was off my nut. Depending on who you believe, he was either a pedophile, philanderer or just a bit off his nut. It's only after the money has been donated that he tells Lil, who pretty much goes off her nut. Of course, it was the super-catchy single ‘Crawling In The Dark,’ that generated the most applause, but it was interesting to see that the crowd went off their nut for most of Hoobastank's other material too. There are new bands coming through, but no one else seems to realise that rock music is in the middle of a Zeitgeist just now, and kids who are 19 just want to get off their nut and go crazy. If you, say, went off your nut and tried to fill up the Houston Astrodome with Blanco Countians, you'd have to clone each one seven times. There was a reason I wanted to go on a picnic, even though your parents thought I was off my nut. I do believe that man was seriously off his nut, but why create all this? a tough (or hard) nut informal Someone who is difficult to deal with; a formidable person. Example sentencesExamples While Spider-man, Daredevil, X-Men, Hulk and Blade were a slam dunk from an entertainment standpoint, the central figure of the current cinematic outing is something of a tough nut. And you look at them and you think, ‘OK, this is going to be a hard nut.’ That's a hard nut and I'm not prepared to say where all those should be, but I think there are places where they may be needed. Schumacher may be a tough nut, yet with hindsight that could prove to be a key moment when the drivers line up in Malaysia for the last grand prix of the season on October 22. In the MacTavish Cup first-round replay, Loch Carron's difficulties against Kilmallie continued and they found them once again a tough nut. The female of the species are supposed to be tough nuts. The programme needed a strong story line and, being a bit of a tough nut anyway, she could live with that, she said. Romanov is by all accounts a hard nut, not inclined to throw good money after bad. Clarke, who died in 1990, was a tough nut in his own right. John Cena, the current WWE World Champion, is known around the world as a tough nut, but with the release of his new LP, he may be getting some respect as an MC as well. a tough (or hard) nut to crack informal A difficult problem or an opponent that is hard to beat. Example sentencesExamples Upgrading a module that combines PHP with SQL is a tougher nut to crack, and it seems as though the XOOPS people have done an admirable job. Nine-year-olds are tough nuts to crack, as Peter Loraine, head of marketing at S Club Juniors' label Polydor, points out. He should prove a tough nut to crack over tomorrow's extended three miles. I'm sure BB would like to implement something that works well for everyone, but it's a very difficult nut to crack and not something to rush into. Oliver Cromwell ordered the walls to be ‘slighted’ - pulled down in parts so that if hostilities broke out again it would not prove so tough a nut to crack. Japan has proved a tough nut for Microsoft's console division to crack. But he's right about parents being a tougher nut to crack. ‘Entertainment is a really, really difficult nut to crack,’ admits Bolland. But reforming the media through policy changes may be the toughest nut to crack in the entire U.S. political system. Now they, like the rest of Europe, are tough nuts to crack. use (or take) a sledgehammer to crack a nut informal Use disproportionately drastic measures to deal with a simple problem. Example sentencesExamples So far we have just been giving warnings because we didn't want to use a sledgehammer to crack a nut - we, like a lot of people in the town, actually support the building of a skatepark for them. The MoD was using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. A charitable view would be to say it cracks a tiny nut with an enormous sledgehammer. Mark Oaten, the Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman, warned: ‘Labour seems obsessed with breaking away the traditions of the jury system and is in danger of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.’ The fact that 11 humps on a short stretch of country road (where, incidentally, it has never been established statistically that an overwhelming accident problem existed in the first place) is a case of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. While most people are, no doubt, all for continuing to improve standards, it seems the powers that be are using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. Obsessed as Network Rail is with targets for punctuality, it is taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut. It feels a bit like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. Your wording in your submission is that, to your mind, the disciplinary process used a sledgehammer to crack a nut. ‘I think they are using a sledgehammer to crack a nut here,’ he said. Derivatives nut-like adjective The theca of Pentremites has a rather nut-like shape, and fossil Pentremites are sometimes inaccurately called ‘fossil nuts’ or ‘fossil hickory nuts’. Example sentencesExamples Its seeds are nut-like, moderately heavy, and are dispersed by gravity and animals, including birds. During these complex steps of ribosome biogenesis, parts of the leader rRNA nut-like sequences undergo transient interactions with sequence elements within the first 400 nucleotides from the 5′ end of the mature 16S rRNA. The tiny, bead-like amaranth grains have a hearty, nut-like flavor. Origin Old English hnutu, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch noot and German Nuss. The Old English word nut is related to the Latin nux, also meaning ‘nut’, and to nucleus. The informal meanings ‘crazy or eccentric person’ and ‘person who is excessively interested in a particular thing’, both date from the early 20th century. They probably come from the informal sense ‘a person's head’. This latter sense is the one behind phrases such as do your nut, or get very cross, and is the root of nutty meaning ‘mad or crazy’. It is also the source of the verb ‘to nut’, or butt with the head, which is first found in the 1930s. See also fruit. A nutshell has been used since the late 16th century to symbolize compactness or shortness. Shakespeare's Hamlet says, ‘I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.’ The idea is thought to have come from the supposed existence of a copy of Homer's epic poem, the Iliad, which was small enough to fit into an actual nutshell, mentioned by the Roman scholar Pliny (ad 23–79) in his Natural History. Rhymes abut, but, butt, cut, glut, gut, hut, intercut, jut, Mut, mutt, phut, putt, rut, scut, shortcut, shut, slut, smut, strut, tut, undercut Nut² proper nounnʊtno͞ot Egyptian Mythology The sky goddess, thought to swallow the sun at night and give birth to it in the morning. NUT³ abbreviation (in the UK) National Union of Teachers. noun.1 phr. name.1 abbr.1 nut¹ nounnətnət 1A fruit consisting of a hard or tough shell around an edible kernel. Example sentencesExamples We stood sipping under Nikos's walnut tree, cracking nuts and watching Psiloritis flush from pale orange to deep mauve in the light of the setting sun. The shells of green nuts are soft, and the skins on the seeds are not fully colored. Cover the foam with a handful or two of nuts in the shell. The other was broad and shallow, heaped with leaves, assorted seeds, nuts, and rose hips. Hook-billed birds love to explore items with their beak and tongue, and they are naturals at holding and cracking seeds and nuts. Many communities were encouraged to find a cheap art or craft to sell to visitors, such as painted boomerangs, carved emu eggs, boab nuts, and shells and toas. Fifteen behaviors involved foraging using tools, such as probing for ants with sticks and cracking nuts with stones. There are many species of walnut trees with edible nuts. In fall and winter they feed principally on acorns, other nuts, seeds, and fruits. The fruit of this tree is a nut and is edible if roasted. But in autumn and winter the birds switch to a variety of fruits, seeds and nuts. And only a director of Burton's Wonka-esque vision would deem it necessary to train 200 real squirrels to shell nuts for one scene. Rural people are allowed to collect medicinal herbs, mushroom and fungi, edible vegetables, wild nuts, and fruits from forests. Or buy nuts in the shell, so it will take you longer to eat them. The nut's hard ash-coloured shell contains toxic substances similar to what is found in poison ivy and poison oak. Scientists found that the two macadamia species that produce edible nuts were the most similar to each other. They use their massive black bills to twist off and crack open pine nuts, the mainstay of their diet. Seeds, nuts, fruits, and berries make up their diet in the wild. If you pick a walnut from a walnut tree and find it extremely difficult to crack, it shouldn't come as any surprise, as walnuts are literally one of the toughest nuts to crack. They also make decorative bags of painted nuts, necklaces of shells and nuts, and other items mainly to sell to tourists. 1.1 The hard kernel of a nut. Example sentencesExamples Scatter the fruit and toasted nuts over the wet chocolate discs and leave to set. It's usually ready-made meals but in today's delivery I've made sure I stuck to healthy food: fruit, vegetables, nuts and raisins. Steer clear of digestion-challenging fatty foods, including butter, cream, olive oil, crisps and nuts. On your next picnic, serve strawberries with a pot of honey and chopped toasted nuts or chocolate shavings. In a medium mixing bowl, combine fruits and nuts. When we were camping near Mt. Index two weekends ago, I sat near the fire and ate pistachio nuts. Eat a ripe avocado and a handful of raw, unsalted cashew nuts mid-morning and mid-afternoon. Nut allergies can start early on and usually do not disappear in adulthood. Loaded with dried fruits and nuts, this cake is very moist, soft, and satisfying, and on top of that, it's sugar-free. Traditionally, the betel nut was chewed as a mild stimulant, but this is much less common today. My grandparents had a bowl of mixed salted nuts on the table. We would not be restricted to salad vegetables, fruits and nuts, milk, raw fish, and steak tartare. The nuts, olives and breadsticks are a nice touch. Besides being fun to eat, pistachio nuts are a boon to our health. Fruit, nuts, plain yoghurt and eggs (perhaps with a little wholegrain cereal or toast) are all good foods to fill up on in the morning. Foods that tend not to provoke an insulin response include meat, fish, eggs, green vegetables, most fruits, nuts, beans and pulses. They set out an estimable tuna salad perked up with toasted pine nuts. Instead, garnish food with one tablespoon of chopped nuts per person. The cake was really rich and slightly crumbly because of the high content of nuts (pistachio and almonds), and surprisingly lemony. Betel leaves, areca nuts, and fruits are distributed to wedding guests and observers. Synonyms kernel 2A 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. Example sentencesExamples Police suspect the vehicle's wheel nuts were not properly fastened and a case of culpable homicide has been opened. Slide the ring and nut to the threads and tighten the nut. A bolt was pushed through the hole and a nut was screwed on the end of it. Tighten the nuts on the bolts while sitting on it. A good toolbox has lots of trays designed to hold all those odd bits of hardware, such as screws and bolts, washers, nuts, and nails. Use a long strip of painted wood or metal for the flag and attach it with a nut and bolt through a drilled hole. Tighten the coupling nuts and check for any leaks. The deck is fiberglass composite with balsa wood core and is securely fastened with nuts, bolts, and washers to the inward hull flange. By contrast a search at 900 different locations failed to find any problems similar to the loose sets of nuts thought to be to blame for the Potters Bar crash. You don't have to stop and think of which way to turn a nut on a bolt. They found two nuts missing from the front stretcher bar of the points and insisted that they should be immediately replaced. Note that the separate wrench on the small vise is hexagonal and fitted onto a hexagonal nut for tightening the vice. For example, screw bolts and nuts are known from the Roman era (they have square heads to be turned with a wrench). The airframers checked and tightened every bolt, nut, screw, and cotter key in the system. Since they do not usually mention nuts, presumably the smiths also made the requisite matching nut and included it in the price. On Saturday 22nd November 2003 Mr Henderson had torque tightened the wheel nuts as advised after 50 kilometres. They ranged from the production of brass and other non-ferrous metals to screws, nuts, bolts, chains and anchors, pins, and jewellery. Machine screws have a uniform shaft diameter and a blunt end, with smaller, less angled threads, designed for use with a matching nut or threaded hole. It is a question that applies also to threads in metal, such as bolts and nuts and screw fasteners. For this reason, experts recommend using a torque wrench to tighten lug nuts when changing a wheel. 2.1 The part at the lower end of the bow of a violin or similar instrument, with a screw for adjusting the tension of the hair. 3informal A crazy or eccentric person. Example sentencesExamples Suddenly, it occurs to Zip: Irene has a crush on that nut. Okay, so Buchanan is a perpetually angry hateful old nut, but still. In a short career, Jolie has taken on more nuts than a Snickers factory. These Londoners were nuts to begin with - and they're only getting more audacious. Some nutcase stuck a colourful religious icon next to the button on Monday which some other nut removed on Tuesday. It's more that it makes me uncomfortable when we give these glory-seeking nuts the kind of attention they so desperately crave. I got up this morning and was moving around like a crazy nut. As far as I was concerned he was just some crazy nut who spent his days crooning up in the attic where he was changed. Brains, manners, road sense and common sense don't exist in the motorists' world and the biggest nut on a car sits behind that steering wheel. If he did, he'd find, not only arguments like that, but even some nuts pining for the imposition of a fascist state or some other form of dictatorship. He's such a crazy nut, he would've done the naked pics for each team had he been there. You're going to have to spend the whole of his time here playing lovebirds in order to prevent that nut from wanting you to cheat on Scott with him! Then more whacko tourists would inundate their pristine land of home-grown nuts and fruitcakes. He offers no causes, no motives and no solutions and his two blank, motiveless killers are far scarier than the traditional lone nut. Crazy Chomsky-reading nut that he is, he at least deserves some coin for 30 years of honky-tonk labor. Honey felt another spurt of warmth toward the woman, who was clearly risking that nut's wrath to buy her time. Synonyms madman, madwoman, maniac, lunatic 3.1with adjective or noun modifier A person who is excessively interested in or enthusiastic about a specified thing. a football nut Example sentencesExamples I stepped up and brought forward an old argument I've had with a friend, Richard, who for while was a classical music nut. As you'd expect from a sport-obsessed nation, Sydney is a haven for sports nuts, especially since hosting the 2000 Olympics. And since 1993, the impressive grounds of Goodwood House have also been home to the festival, which has become a magnet for car nuts. Not every person who is pro-war or anti-gun control is a pro-life, anti-gay religious nut. Just consider how the dumbest sports nuts remember every score. Shane Filan, a self confessed car nut, has collected some very desirable machines, including a Ferrari and two classic American muscle cars. As a professional nude nut however, Tim was faced with a dilemma. It's part of an annual event that attracts 1.5 million car nuts, most of them there to show off their classic cars. We even put one of those spoof backwards recordings on the end of the single for a laugh, to give all those Beatles nuts something to do. She has really beautiful brown hair, and I really do like it, but I am a nut for red hair. Being a downhill ski nut and former instructor probably helps, but I think anyone can learn the basics of downhill skating and live to enjoy it. Well I don't know about that but if some religious nut, er, enthusiast wants me to be happy well, it's better than penile enhancement promos. He seems to have gone round the bend and gone after militia crazies and gun nuts, looking for his kind. As a matter of fact, most so called health nuts don't even scratch the surface of healthy living anyway, no matter how much they can bench press. Key stylist Joy Zapata is interviewed, as well as the director, Reese Witherspoon, and other hair nuts from Legally Blonde. The latest Legacy is, at last, the car that most car nuts wish it always had been. While many of Moore's targets are easy, like the various gun nuts he interviews, a few of the connections he makes left some in the audience cold. What a weird and wacky world of gun nuts he turned up. It's a limited-growth market - you're not going to all of a sudden discover a vast new audience of car buffs or gun nuts. As a self confessed car nut I was in my element examining pictures of Formula 1 cars and drivers, rally cars, scale models, trucks and bikes. Synonyms enthusiast, fan, fanatic, addict, devotee, aficionado 4informal A person's head. Synonyms head, skull, cranium 5usually nutsvulgar slang Testicles. 6The fixed ridge on the neck of a stringed instrument over which the strings pass. Example sentencesExamples The right-hand bridges usually carry the bass strings, which run across the soundboard to the nut on the opposite edge. verbnətnət 1usually as noun nuttingarchaic no object Gather nuts. Example sentencesExamples Bill Oddie said at the launch yesterday ‘We want everyone to get out and get nutting.’ More affluent folks enjoyed nutting as recreation. 2British informal with object Butt (someone) with one's head. Example sentencesExamples From a short corner, Totti coaxed in a lovely ball to the far post and Toni, six yards out and free of his marker, nutted it into the corner. When the bright Shunsuke Nakamura sent the ball in, Hartson found the space to nut it home. There's not a single woman cowering under pointless blows, not a single housewife, waitress, charlady or nun being needlessly punched or nutted. I could nut him and put him down, or keep negotiating and calming him. The new half was only six minutes old when he nutted the equaliser from a Steven Smith free-kick. One of them grabbed my hand, so I pulled it away and he pushed me against a wall, and then he nutted me and I fell to the floor. Oppens used her elbows, wrists and knuckles, and sometimes her head came so near the keyboard that I suspect she nutted the poor instrument as well. Koroman's dangerous cross is nutted behind by Boulharouz for a corner. I'd just left to go to the bar when Mark came storming up to me saying that he'd nutted a guy for calling him a fag! She gave a little laugh through her tears. ‘When Daddy finally got the full picture, he nutted David a good one.’ The air of unreality continued when Motherwell decided not to defend a Giovanni van Bronckhorst corner which Lorenzo Amoruso nutted goalwards from a narrow angle, with Wallace touching it into the net on the line. Even Thierry Henry could have nutted it further than that. Senderos heads away just as Pizarro is about to nut a cross in from about eight yards out. Who ever nutted him last week will probably have knocked some sense into his peanut brain and should be telling him to sort out the domestic economy. How often have you heard of an uncle nutting his nephew? Fish is on stage in a Scotland football strip having earlier told the crowd that if he ever meets Ruud van Nistelrooy he will avenge Holland knocking Scotland out of the European Cup with a six-nil drubbing by nutting the said footballer. O'Gara pulled back another three points after Baby nutted O'Driscoll at a ruck - why no card from referee Tony Spreadbury? I went up for the ball and got there first but one of their lads just nutted me in the wrong place. France took the lead with a dodgy, early penalty, converted with preposterous calm by Zidane, but Italy deservedly equalised when Marco Materazzi showed what he'd learned on Merseyside by nutting home a cracking equaliser from a corner. Figo, who should have walked for nutting Van Bommel, is just muscled off the ball by Boulahrouz and goes down clutching his face. Phrases do one's nut informal Be extremely angry or agitated. Example sentencesExamples Rejoice that you do not still live with your mother would would do her nut about the black splashes all over the kitchen. Mum took me setting the microwave alight pretty well, I told her when she rang so she could do her nut at the hospital (very quietly) and be over the most of her temper by the time she got home. Aforementioned furry rodent re-appears at regular intervals, doing his nut over his unresponsive acorn, the inventive repetition reminiscent of Laurel and Hardy fighting with a piano or endless jousts in classic cartoons. But I need to do some digging first to find out what the actual case-law is on these matters before doing my nut about them. The skipper was apparently doing his nut, but while King's Regulations and Admiralty Instructions could be applied to his crew, they didn't have much effect on his passengers. It was no surprise that Hart was doing his nut on the sidelines. It's not just his merciless cheeriness that's doing my nut. I was before I came here, but someone in this computer lab is playing a Shania Twain album on a CD drive and it's doing my nut! She does her nut and wakes him up to challenge him about it. On the day of the incident he came home to a table full of banana sandwiches and ‘started to do his nut’. nuts and bolts informal The basic practical details. the nuts and bolts of public policy Example sentencesExamples The internet is the mechanism - the nuts and bolts - for physically connecting computer networks. The book is also a marvelous insight into the nuts and bolts of medical practice. Transnational culture-ideology practices are the nuts and bolts and the glue that hold the system together. He tends to hire ambitious people who have their eye on a startup and a knack for the nuts and bolts of practice. Massenet learned his craft by playing timpani at the Paris Opéra, and really understood the nuts and bolts of theatrical production. What I'm attempting to do here is get down to the nuts and bolts. At the same time he was always interested in practicalities, in the nuts and bolts. Further detailed discussions on the nuts and bolts of the finance deal will now take place with the DfES. Her tale, the least interesting of the three, details the nuts and bolts of her past and what it takes to break free for a better future. The announcement was long on strategy and short on the nuts and bolts of how the forums will work in practice. Synonyms practical details, basic details, fundamentals, basics, practicalities, essentials, mechanics off one's nut informal Out of one's mind; crazy. Example sentencesExamples He cocked his head and looked at me as if I was off my nut. It's only after the money has been donated that he tells Lil, who pretty much goes off her nut. There was a reason I wanted to go on a picnic, even though your parents thought I was off my nut. Of course, it was the super-catchy single ‘Crawling In The Dark,’ that generated the most applause, but it was interesting to see that the crowd went off their nut for most of Hoobastank's other material too. Depending on who you believe, he was either a pedophile, philanderer or just a bit off his nut. You're the one who's gone off your nut about it. There are new bands coming through, but no one else seems to realise that rock music is in the middle of a Zeitgeist just now, and kids who are 19 just want to get off their nut and go crazy. When I told him I hadn't seen you all day and that I was worried because Rigger wasn't here either he went off his nut! I do believe that man was seriously off his nut, but why create all this? If you, say, went off your nut and tried to fill up the Houston Astrodome with Blanco Countians, you'd have to clone each one seven times. a tough (or hard) nut informal Someone who is difficult to deal with; a formidable person. Example sentencesExamples Schumacher may be a tough nut, yet with hindsight that could prove to be a key moment when the drivers line up in Malaysia for the last grand prix of the season on October 22. In the MacTavish Cup first-round replay, Loch Carron's difficulties against Kilmallie continued and they found them once again a tough nut. That's a hard nut and I'm not prepared to say where all those should be, but I think there are places where they may be needed. Romanov is by all accounts a hard nut, not inclined to throw good money after bad. Clarke, who died in 1990, was a tough nut in his own right. And you look at them and you think, ‘OK, this is going to be a hard nut.’ John Cena, the current WWE World Champion, is known around the world as a tough nut, but with the release of his new LP, he may be getting some respect as an MC as well. While Spider-man, Daredevil, X-Men, Hulk and Blade were a slam dunk from an entertainment standpoint, the central figure of the current cinematic outing is something of a tough nut. The programme needed a strong story line and, being a bit of a tough nut anyway, she could live with that, she said. The female of the species are supposed to be tough nuts. a tough (or hard) nut to crack informal A difficult problem or an opponent that is hard to beat. Example sentencesExamples Oliver Cromwell ordered the walls to be ‘slighted’ - pulled down in parts so that if hostilities broke out again it would not prove so tough a nut to crack. He should prove a tough nut to crack over tomorrow's extended three miles. ‘Entertainment is a really, really difficult nut to crack,’ admits Bolland. Upgrading a module that combines PHP with SQL is a tougher nut to crack, and it seems as though the XOOPS people have done an admirable job. Nine-year-olds are tough nuts to crack, as Peter Loraine, head of marketing at S Club Juniors' label Polydor, points out. Now they, like the rest of Europe, are tough nuts to crack. But he's right about parents being a tougher nut to crack. I'm sure BB would like to implement something that works well for everyone, but it's a very difficult nut to crack and not something to rush into. But reforming the media through policy changes may be the toughest nut to crack in the entire U.S. political system. Japan has proved a tough nut for Microsoft's console division to crack. Origin Old English hnutu, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch noot and German Nuss. Nut² proper nounno͞ot Egyptian Mythology The sky goddess, thought to swallow the sun at night and give birth to it in the morning. noun.1 phr. name.1
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