| 单词 | nut |
| 释义 | nut (once / 325 pages) 1nv 2n 3n 4n 5n A nut is a kind of fruit made of a large, edible seed with a very hard shell around it. The nuts that squirrels typically gather (sometimes storing them temporarily in their cheek pouches) are acorns. It might seem strange that a nut is a fruit, since until they've been cracked open, most nuts are as hard and inedible as rocks. Think of the meat of a walnut or almond that hides inside — this is the edible seed within the fruit. If someone calls you a nut, or describes you as nuts or nutty, they think you're crazy or wacky, and when you refer to "a tough nut to crack," you're talking about a tricky problem. WORD FAMILYnut: nutlike, nuts, nutted, nutting, nutty+/nutty: nuttier, nuttiest, nuttily USAGE EXAMPLESBut “I really went nuts with anxiety,” she said, worrying about a recurrence. Washington Post(Dec 01, 2016) The world went nuts for “The Hunger Games” and slightly less so for “The Maze Runner” franchise and the “Divergent” films. Salon(Nov 30, 2016) At issue are warnings such as “may contain traces of nuts” in a food that shouldn’t have any. Seattle Times(Nov 30, 2016) 1 1n usually large hard-shelled seed Hypo|Hyper edible nut a hard-shelled seed consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell cedar nut, cembra nutthe seed of the Swiss pine cola nut, kola nutbitter brown seed containing caffein; source of cola extract mastnuts of forest trees (as beechnuts and acorns) accumulated on the ground palm kernel, palm nutseed of any oil palm nutleta small nut bunya bunyanut tasting like roasted chestnuts; a staple food of Australian aborigines earthnut, goober, goober pea, groundnut, monkey nut, peanutpod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms almondoval-shaped edible seed of the almond tree quandong nutedible nutlike seed of the quandong fruit beechnutsmall sweet triangular nut of any of various beech trees walnutnut of any of various walnut trees having a wrinkled two-lobed seed with a hard shell brazil, brazil nutthree-sided tropical American nut with white oily meat and hard brown shell butternutoily egg-shaped nut of an American tree of the walnut family souari nuta large nutlike seed of a South American tree cashew, cashew nutkidney-shaped nut edible only when roasted chestnutedible nut of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea chincapin, chinkapin, chinquapinsmall nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut cob, cobnut, filbert, hazelnutnut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus cocoanut, coconutlarge hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk grugru nutnut of Brazilian or West Indian palms hickory nutsmall hard-shelled nut of North American hickory trees especially the shagbark hickories macadamia nutnutlike seed with sweet and crisp white meat pecansmooth brown oval nut of south central United States pignolia, pine nut, pinon nutedible seed of any of several nut pines especially some pinons of southwestern North America pistachio, pistachio nutnut of Mediterranean trees having an edible green kernel pyrenethe small hard nutlet of a drupe or drupelet; the seed and the hard endocarp that surrounds it seed a small hard fruit 2v gather nuts 2Hyper collect, garner, gather, pull together assemble or get together 1n a whimsically eccentric person Syn|Hyper crackpot, crank, fruitcake, nut case, screwball eccentric, eccentric person, flake, geek, oddball a person with an unusual or odd personality 2n someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction 3a car nut Syn|Hypo|Hyper addict, freak, junkie, junky gym rat someone who spends all leisure time playing sports or working out in a gymnasium or health spa enthusiast, partisan, partizan an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity n a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt 4Hypo|Hyper hex nut a nut with a hexagonal shape locknut, safety nutsupplementary nut that is screwed down on a primary nut to prevent it from loosening square nutnut with a square shape packing nut, stuffing nuta nut used to tighten a stuffing box butterfly nut, thumbnut, wing nut, wing screw, wing-nuta threaded nut with winglike projections for thumb and forefinger leverage in turning block a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides) n one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens 5Hypo|Hyper cobblers a man's testicles (from Cockney rhyming slang: cobbler's awl rhymes with ball) undescended testicle, undescended testisa testis that fails to move into the scrotum as the male fetus develops gonad, sex gland a gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced male reproductive glandthe reproductive organs of a man n half the width of an em Syn|Hyper en linear measure, linear unit a unit of measurement of length Nut (once / 6043 pages) n WORD FAMILY Nut USAGE EXAMPLESThe venue is split into categories such as the Health Nut, the Traveller, the Cook and the Lover and offers gift ideas for each segment. Los Angeles Times(Dec 01, 2016) Atum had two children, who had two children of their own: Geb, the earth, and Nut, the sky. The New Yorker(Sep 23, 2016) The goddess Nut, stylishly attired in a white dress with a red belt, appeared to have a five-o’clock shadow. The New Yorker(Nov 20, 2016) n Egyptian goddess of the sky Exp Egyptian deity a deity worshipped by the ancient Egyptians |
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