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单词 nut
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nut
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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 FAMILY
nut: nutlike, nuts, nutted, nutting, nutty+/nutty: nuttier, nuttiest, nuttily
USAGE EXAMPLES
But “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)
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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 nut
the seed of the Swiss pine
cola nut, kola nut
bitter brown seed containing caffein; source of cola extract
mast
nuts of forest trees (as beechnuts and acorns) accumulated on the ground
palm kernel, palm nut
seed of any oil palm
nutlet
a small nut
bunya bunya
nut tasting like roasted chestnuts; a staple food of Australian aborigines
earthnut, goober, goober pea, groundnut, monkey nut, peanut
pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms
almond
oval-shaped edible seed of the almond tree
quandong nut
edible nutlike seed of the quandong fruit
beechnut
small sweet triangular nut of any of various beech trees
walnut
nut of any of various walnut trees having a wrinkled two-lobed seed with a hard shell
brazil, brazil nut
three-sided tropical American nut with white oily meat and hard brown shell
butternut
oily egg-shaped nut of an American tree of the walnut family
souari nut
a large nutlike seed of a South American tree
cashew, cashew nut
kidney-shaped nut edible only when roasted
chestnut
edible nut of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea
chincapin, chinkapin, chinquapin
small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut
cob, cobnut, filbert, hazelnut
nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus
cocoanut, coconut
large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk
grugru nut
nut of Brazilian or West Indian palms
hickory nut
small hard-shelled nut of North American hickory trees especially the shagbark hickories
macadamia nut
nutlike seed with sweet and crisp white meat
pecan
smooth brown oval nut of south central United States
pignolia, pine nut, pinon nut
edible seed of any of several nut pines especially some pinons of southwestern North America
pistachio, pistachio nut
nut of Mediterranean trees having an edible green kernel
pyrene
the 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
Hyper
collect, garner, gather, pull together
assemble or get together
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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
a 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
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n a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt
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hex nut
a nut with a hexagonal shape
locknut, safety nut
supplementary nut that is screwed down on a primary nut to prevent it from loosening
square nut
nut with a square shape
packing nut, stuffing nut
a nut used to tighten a stuffing box
butterfly nut, thumbnut, wing nut, wing screw, wing-nut
a threaded nut with winglike projections for thumb and forefinger leverage in turning
block
a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides)
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n one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
Hypo|Hyper
cobblers
a man's testicles (from Cockney rhyming slang: cobbler's awl rhymes with ball)
undescended testicle, undescended testis
a 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 gland
the reproductive organs of a man
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n half the width of an em
Syn|Hyper
en
linear measure, linear unit
a unit of measurement of length
Nut
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WORD FAMILY
Nut
USAGE EXAMPLES
The 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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