nut has definitions from the fields of anatomy,zoology,sexuality,religion,antiquity,sociology,botany,printing
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[ noun ] (botany) usually large hard-shelled seed

Used in print

(Organic Gardening and Farming,...)

The flavor is neither sweet , like a pear , nor tart like an orange ; it is subtle and rather bland , nut like .

(John Hazard Wildman, "Take It Off," The Arizona...)

There had been some coconut in it , for I remember my mother 's taking a quick glance at a stringy bit of this nut on the cheek of one of them and_then putting_down her radish with a shiver .

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[ noun ] (religion,antiquity) goddess of the sky

Used in print

(Francis Pollini, Night....)

Am I nuts ?

Related terms

Egyptian_deity

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[ noun ] a small square or hexagonal metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt

Used in print

(Kenneth Reiner, "Coping with Runaway Technology"...)

Our pin-curl clips and self-locking nuts achieved dominance in just a_few years time , despite substantial , well established competition .

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[ noun ] someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction

Examples

"a golf addict" "a car nut" "a control freak"

Related terms

enthusiast gym_rat addict

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[ noun ] (sociology) a whimsically eccentric person

Related terms

eccentric

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[ verb ] gather nuts

Related terms

gather

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[ noun ] (printing) half the width of an em

Synonyms

en

Related terms

linear_unit em

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[ noun ] (anatomy,zoology,sexuality) one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens

Examples

"she kicked him in the balls and got away"

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