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| nut [ nut ] |
noun (plural nuts) |
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1. hard fruit: the fruit of a plant, especially a tree, with a hard outer shell containing the seed
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2. edible kernel: the hard seed of a nut, especially when it is edible
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3. botany hard fruit of some plants: the hard dry one-seeded fruit of various plants, which does not split open to scatter its seed when it is mature
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4. fastening screwed onto bolt: a piece of metal, usually square or hexagonal, with a hole in the middle, screwed on the end of a bolt as a fastening for it
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5. music part of stringed instrument: a ridge at the top end of the fingerboard of a stringed instrument that the strings pass over before reaching the tuning pegs
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6. music part of instrument's bow: a device like a screw at one end of a bow for a musical instrument that is turned to tighten the hairs of the bow
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7. human head: somebody's head
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informal
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8. offensive term: an offensive term for somebody with a psychiatric disorder
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9. enthusiast: somebody with a deep interest in something
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informal
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10. U.S. business costs of business: the amount of money needed to launch a business, particularly an entertainment business, or to keep it running
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slang
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  The dance club's weekly nut is in the thousands.
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11. printing
Same as en
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intransitive verb (past and past participle nut·ted, present participle nut·ting, 3rd person present singular nuts) |
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gather nuts: to gather edible nuts from trees
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| [ Old English hnutu< Indo-European] |
