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Definition of Nut

1. Noun. Usually large hard-shelled seed.

2. Verb. Gather nuts. "In the summer they like to go out and nut"

3. Noun. Egyptian goddess of the sky.

4. Noun. A small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt.

5. Noun. Half the width of an em.

6. Noun. A whimsically eccentric person.

7. Noun. Someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction. ; "A news junkie"

8. Noun. One of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens. "She kicked him in the balls and got away"

Definition of Nut

1. n. The fruit of certain trees and shrubs (as of the almond, walnut, hickory, beech, filbert, etc.), consisting of a hard and indehiscent shell inclosing a kernel.

2. v. i. To gather nuts.

Definition of Nut

1. Noun. A hard-shelled seed. ¹

2. Noun. A fastener: a piece of metal, usually square or hexagonal in shape, with a hole through it having machined internal threads, intended to be screwed onto a bolt or other threaded shaft. ¹

3. Noun. (slang) A crazy person. ¹

4. Noun. (slang) The head. ¹

5. Noun. (US slang) The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs. ¹

6. Noun. (US slang) A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost. ¹

7. Noun. (musical instruments) On string instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height. ¹

8. Noun. (typography slang) En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use. ¹

9. Noun. (context: historical UK slang) An extravagantly fashionable young man of the 1910s and 1920s. ¹

10. Noun. (context: vulgarity slang rarely used in the singular) A testicle. ¹

11. Noun. (context: vulgarity slang) Semen, ejaculate. ¹

12. Noun. An extreme enthusiast. ¹

13. Noun. (climbing) A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts [sense #2] were used for this purpose.) ¹

14. Noun. (poker only in attributive use) Relating to the nuts, the best possible hand on a given board. ¹

15. Verb. (UK transitive slang) To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt. ¹

16. Verb. (intransitive slang) To ejaculate (''semen''). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nut

1. to gather nuts (hard-shelled dry fruits) [v NUTTED, NUTTING, NUTS]

Medical Definition of Nut

1. 1. The fruit of certain trees and shrubs (as of the almond, walnut, hickory, beech, filbert, etc), consisting of a hard and indehiscent shell inclosing a kernel. 2. A perforated block (usually a small piece of metal), provided with an internal or female screw thread, used on a bolt, or screw, for tightening or holding something, or for transmitting motion. 3. The tumbler of a gunlock. 4. A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place. Check nut, Jam nut, Lock nut, a nut which is screwed up tightly against another nut on the same bolt or screw, in order to prevent accidental unscrewing of the first nut. Nut buoy. See Buoy. Nut coal, screened coal of a size smaller than stove coal and larger than pea coal; called also chestnut coal. Nut crab, any leucosoid crab of the genus Ebalia as, Ebalia tuberosa of Europe. Nut grass, any species of weevils of the genus Balaninus and other allied genera, which in the larval state live in nuts. Origin: OE. Nute, note, AS. Hnutu; akin to D. Noot, G. Nuss, OHG. Nuz, Icel. Hnot, Sw. Not, Dan. Nod. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nut

nurtural nurturance nurturances nurturant nurture nurtured nurturer nurturers nurtures nurturing

nus nustle nustled nustles nustling nut-cutting time nut-leaved screw tree nut and bolt nut ball nut bar

nut behind the bolt nut bread nut case nut cases nut house

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