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PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: nut

1	n v	usually large hard-shelled seed gather nuts
2	n	a whimsically eccentric person
3	n	a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt
4	n	one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
5	n	half the width of an em

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: nut

n usually large hard-shelled seed

Types:: show 27 types...; hide 27 types...; 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

Type of:: seed
a small hard fruit

v gather nuts

Type of:: collect, garner, gather, pull together
assemble or get together

n a whimsically eccentric person

Synonyms:: crackpot, crank, fruitcake, nut case, screwball

Type of:: eccentric, eccentric person, flake, geek, oddball
a person with an unusual or odd personality

n someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction

“a car nut”

Synonyms:: addict, freak, junkie, junky

Types:: gym rat
someone who spends all leisure time playing sports or working out in a gymnasium or health spa

Type of:: enthusiast, partisan, partizan
an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity

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

Types:: show 5 types...; hide 5 types...; 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

Type of:: block
a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides)

n one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens

Synonyms:: ball, ballock, bollock, egg, orchis, testicle, testis

Types:: 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

Type of:: gonad, sex gland
a gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced; male reproductive gland
the reproductive organs of a man

n half the width of an em

Synonyms:: en

Type of:: linear measure, linear unit
a unit of measurement of length

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