Nut

[nʌt]

解釋/意思:

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

(noun.) Egyptian goddess of the sky.

(noun.) usually large hard-shelled seed.

(verb.) gather nuts.

編輯:摩尔--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(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.

(n.) 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. See Illust. of lst Bolt.

(n.) The tumbler of a gunlock.

(n.) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.

(v. i.) To gather nuts.

欧文校對

解釋/意思:

n. the name popularly given to all those fruits which have the seed enclosed in a bony woody or leathery pericarp not opening when ripe: (bot.) a one-celled fruit with a hardened pericarp containing when mature only one seed: often the hazel-nut sometimes the walnut: a small block of metal for screwing on the end of a bolt.—v.i. to gather nuts:—pr.p. nut′ting; pa.p. nut′ted.—adj. Nut′-brown brown like a ripe old nut.—ns. Nut′cracker an instrument for cracking nuts: a genus of birds of the family Corvid; Nut′-gall an excrescence chiefly of the oak; Nut′hatch a genus of birds of the family Sittid agile creepers—also Nut′jobber Nut′pecker; Nut′-hook a stick with a hook at the end for pulling down boughs that the nuts may be gathered: a bailiff a thief who uses a hook; Nut′meal meal made from the kernels of nuts; Nut′-oil an oil obtained from walnuts; Nut′-pine one of several pines with large edible seeds; Nut′shell the hard substance that encloses the kernel of a nut: anything of little value; Nut′ter one who gathers nuts; Nut′tiness; Nut′ting the gathering of nuts; Nut′-tree any tree bearing nuts esp. the hazel.—adj. Nut′ty abounding in nuts: having the flavour of nuts.—n. Nut′-wrench an instrument for fixing on nuts or removing them from screws.—A nut to crack a difficult problem to solve; Be nuts on (slang) to be very fond of; In a nutshell in small compass.

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