ALL meanings of nut
nut
N n - noun nut hard fruit 1
- noun nut kernel 1
- noun nut screw 1
- noun nut crazy person 1
- noun nut person: fan, enthusiast 1
- adjective nut sb: crazy 1
- noun plural nut testicles 1
- noun nut head 1
- noun nut piece of coal 1
- noun nut violin: bow 1
- noun nut violin: fingerboard 1
- transitive verb nut headbutt 1
- noun nut the goddess of the sky, sometimes shown as a cow bearing Ra on her back and the stars on her underside. 1
- verb without object nut to seek for or gather nuts: to go nutting in late autumn. 1
- idioms nut from soup to nuts. soup (def 7). 1
- idioms nut hard nut to crack, a problem difficult to solve; a formidable undertaking. a person difficult to know, understand, or convince. Also, tough nut to crack. 1
- idioms nut off one's nut, Slang. Sometimes Offensive. foolish, silly, or insane. confused; unreasonable. mistaken or wrong: You're off your nut if you think such a plan can succeed. 1
- noun nut A fruit consisting of a hard or tough shell around an edible kernel. 1
- countable noun nut The firm shelled fruit of some trees and bushes are called nuts. Some nuts can be eaten. 0
- countable noun nut A nut is a thick metal ring which you screw onto a metal rod called a bolt. Nuts and bolts are used to hold things such as pieces of machinery together. 0
- countable noun nut If you describe someone as, for example, a football nut or a health nut, you mean that they are extremely enthusiastic about the thing mentioned. 0
- adjective nut If you are nuts about something or someone, you like them very much. 0
- countable noun nut If you refer to someone as a nut, you mean that they are mad. 0
- adjective nut If you say that someone goes nuts or is nuts, you mean that they go crazy or are very foolish. 0
- noun plural nut A man's testicles can be referred to as his nuts. 0
- countable noun nut Your head can be referred to as your nut. 0
- noun nut a dry one-seeded indehiscent fruit that usually possesses a woody wall 0
- noun nut any similar fruit, such as the walnut, having a hard shell and an edible kernel 0
- noun nut the edible kernel of such a fruit 0
- noun nut an eccentric person 0
- noun nut a person who is mentally disturbed 0
- noun nut a person or thing that presents difficulties (esp in the phrase a tough or hard nut to crack) 0
- noun nut a small square or hexagonal block, usually metal, with a threaded hole through the middle for screwing on the end of a bolt 0
- noun nut a variously shaped small metal block, usually a wedge or hexagonal prism (originally an ordinary engineer's nut) with a wire or rope loop attached, for jamming into a crack to provide security 0
- noun nut the ledge or ridge at the upper end of the fingerboard of a violin, cello, etc, over which the strings pass to the tuning pegs 0
- noun nut the end of a violin bow that is held by the player 0
- noun nut a small usually gingery biscuit 0
- noun nut a small piece of coal 0
- verb nut to gather nuts 0
- verb nut to butt (someone) with the head 0
- abbreviation NUT National Union of Teachers 0
- noun nut the dry, one-seeded fruit of any of various trees or shrubs, consisting of a kernel, often edible, in a hard and woody or tough and leathery shell, more or less separable from the seed itself, as the walnut, pecan, chestnut, acorn, etc. 0
- noun nut the kernel, or meat, of such a fruit 0
- noun nut any hard-shell fruit that will keep more or less indefinitely, as a peanut, almond, etc. 0
- noun nut a small block, usually of metal, with a threaded hole through the center, for screwing onto a bolt, screw, etc. 0
- noun nut a ridge of ebony or other hard material at the top of the fingerboard of a stringed instrument, over which the strings pass 0
- noun nut the small knob at the end of a violin bow, for tightening or loosening the hairs 0
- noun nut the initial cost of an undertaking, or the amount of money it is necessary to take in before a profit is realized on it 0
- noun nut the head 0
- noun nut the testicles 0