单词 | to crack a nut |
释义 | > as lemmasto crack a nut b. (from figurative use of the phrase to crack a nut: see nut n.1) To puzzle out, make out, solve, discuss. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > resolving of problem, solution > find solution, solve [verb (transitive)] findOE assoilc1374 soil1382 contrive1393 to find outc1405 resolvea1438 absolvea1525 solute?1531 solve?1541 dissolve1549 get1559 salvec1571 to beat out1577 sort1581 explicate1582 untiea1586 loose1596 unsolve1631 cracka1640 unscruple1647 metagrobolize1653 to puzzle out1717 to work out1719 to get around ——1803 to dope out1906 lick1946 to get out1951 a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Spanish Curat ii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. E4 v/2 I'l come sometimes, and crack a case [at law] with ye. 1712 J. Swift To Dr. Sheridan When with much labour the matter I crackt. 1768 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) XII. 409 Logic you cannot crack without a tutor. 1937 R. Stout Red Box i. 4 It's a tough one, and I doubt if anyone could crack it but you. 1955 E. Hillary High Adventure viii. 148 If we didn't crack the route to the South Col pretty soon, we might as well go home. 1960 Analog Sci. Fact & Fiction Nov. 19/1 When the case of the Teleporting Juvenile Delinquents had come up he'd been assigned to that one too, and he'd cracked it. 1962 Listener 29 Nov. 931/2 A code message that will clear everything up when it is cracked. 1967 Technol. Week 23 Jan. 79/1 We are cracking the code of the life process. to crack a nut to crack a nut: to drink from such a vessel.extracted from nutn.1adj.2< as lemmas |
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