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Definition: Nut |
NutNoun1. Usually large hard-shelled seed. 2. Goddess of the sky. 3. A small square or hexagonal metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt. 4. Half the width of an em. 5. A whimsically eccentric person. 6. Someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction; "a golf addict"; "a car nut"; "a control freak". 7. One of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens; "she kicked him in the balls and got away". Verb1. Gather nuts. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nut" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Industry | Metal piece designed to hold the bolts in place. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | A fruit consisting of a hard or tough shell around an edible kernel. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Nut A hard nut to crack. A difficult question to answer; a hard problem to solve. (Anglo-Saxon, hnut, a nut.) He who would eat the nut must first crack the shell. The gods give nothing to man without great labour, or "Nil sine magno vita labore dedit mortalibus." "Qui nucleum essc vult, frangit nucem" (Plautus). In French, "Il faut casser le noyau pour en avoir l'amande." It was Heraclies who said, "Expect nothing without toil." If you would reap, you also must plough For bread must be earned by the sweat of the brow. E.C.B. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang | Noun. Source: Comes from the word nut. Definition: A crazy person. Context: A word that describes a male sexual orgasm. Social Source: Kids from Berkeley, California. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Sports & Leisure | Attrezzo da inserire nelle fendioture naturali della roccia usato in alpinismo. Source: European Union. (references) |
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In Egyptian mythology, Nuit was the sky goddess, in contrast to most other mythologies, where the Sky Father is nearly always male. Nuit is a daughter of Shu and Tefnut. She was one of the Ennead.
The sun god Re entered her mouth after the sun set in the evening and was reborn from her vulva the next morning. She also swallowed and rebirthed the stars.
She was a goddess of death, and her image is on the inside of most sarcophagi. The pharaoh entered her body after death and was later resurrected.
In art, Nuit is depicted as a woman wearing no clothes, covered with stars and supported by Shu; opposite her (the upper area, the sky), is her husband, Seb, the Earth. With Seb, she was the mother of Osiris, Horus, Isis, Seth, and Nephthys.
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Traditionally, number theory is that branch of pure mathematics concerned with the properties of integers and contains many open problems that are easily understood even by non-mathematicians. More generally, the field has come to be concerned with a wider class of problems that arose naturally from the study of integers. Number theory may be subdivided into several fields according to the methods used and the questions investigated.
In elementary number theory, the integers are studied without use of techniques from other mathematical fields. Questions of divisibility, the Euclidean algorithm to compute greatest common divisors, factorization of integers into prime numbers, investigation of perfect numbers and congruences belong here. Typical statements are Fermat's little theorem and Euler's theorem extending it, the Chinese remainder theorem and the law of quadratic reciprocity. The properties of multiplicative functions such as the Möbius function and Euler's φ function are investigated; so are integer sequences such as factorials and Fibonacci numbers.
Many questions in elementary number theory are exceptionally deep and require completely new approaches. Examples are
The theory of Diophantine equations has even been shown to be undecidable (see Hilbert's tenth problem).
- The Goldbach conjecture concerning the expression of even numbers as sums of two primes,
- Catalan's conjecture regarding successive integer powers,
- The Twin Prime Conjecture about the infinitude of prime pairs, and
- The Collatz conjecture concerning a simple iteration.
Analytic number theory employs the machinery of calculus and complex analysis to tackle questions about integers. The prime number theorem and the related Riemann hypothesis are examples. Waring's problem (representing a given integer as a sum of squares, cubes etc.), the Twin Prime Conjecture (finding infinitely many prime pairs with difference 2) and Goldbach's conjecture (writing even integers as sums of two primes) are being attacked with analytical methods as well. Proofs of the transcendence of mathematical constants, such as &pi or e, are also classified as analytical number theory. While statements about transcendental numbers may seem to be removed from the study of integers, they really study the possible values of polynomials with integer coefficients evaluated at, say, e; they are also closely linked to the field of Diophantine approximation, where one investigates "how well" a given real number may be approximated by a rational one.
In algebraic number theory, the concept of number is expanded to the algebraic numbers which are roots of polynomials with rational coefficients. These domains contain elements analogous to the integers, the so-called algebraic integers. In this setting, the familiar features of the integers (e.g. unique factorization) need not hold. The virtue of the machinery employed -- Galois theory, field cohomology, class field theory, group representations and L-functions -- is that it allows to recover that order partly for this new class of numbers.
Many number theoretical questions are best attacked by studying them modulo p for all primes p (see finite fields). This is called localization and it leads to the construction of the p-adic numbers; this field of study is called local analysis and it arises from algebraic number theory.
Geometric number theory incorporates all forms of geometry. It starts with Minkowski's theorem about lattice points in convex sets and investigations of sphere packings. Algebraic geometry, especially the theory of elliptic curves, may also be employed. The famous Fermat's last theorem was proved with these techniques.
Finally, computational number theory studies algorithms relevant in number theory. Fast algorithms for prime testing and integer factorization have important applications in cryptography
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A nut is a type of fruit borne by certain flowering plants. See Nut (fruit).
A nut is a type of hardware used for fastening in conjunction with bolts and screws (See Nut (hardware)) and a device used in climbing .
In Egyptian mythology, Nut is an alternate spelling for Nuit, (see Nuit).
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A nut in botany is a one-seeded (rarely two) simple dry fruit in which the ovary wall or part of it becomes very hard (stony or woody) at maturity. Most nuts come from pistils with inferior ovaries (see flower) and all are indehiscent (do not open at maturity). Examples of true nuts are the fruits produced by walnut, oak (acorn), hazelnut (filbert), beech, chestnut, hickory, pecan, and butternut trees."Nuts" in cuisine are a much less restrictive category than nuts in botany, the term being misapplied to many seeds that are not true nuts. Any large, oily kernel found within a shell and used in food may be regarded as a nut. Because nuts generally have a high oil content, they are a highly prized food and energy source. A large number of seeds are edible by humans and used in cooking, eaten raw, sprouted, or roasted as a snack food, or pressed for oil that is used in cookery and cosmetics.
Nuts are a significant source of nutrition for wildlife. This is particularly true in temperate climates where animals such as the squirrel store acorns and other nuts during the autumn to keep them from starving during the winter and early spring.
Nuts of temperate climates are dominated by wind-pollinated trees of the Order Fagales:
Some "nuts" that are not true nuts in a botanical sense:
- acorn, the seed of the oak tree
- beech
- chestnut
- hazelnut or filbert, the seed of the hazel and cob trees
- hickory
- pecan
- walnut, which includes English or Persian walnut, black walnut, heartnut, and butternut
The "nut" of the horse-chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) is also known as a conker. Conkers are inedible but are collected and used in an old children's game, also known as conkers, in which a nut is threaded onto a strong cord and then each child attempts to break their opponent's conker by hitting it with their own. A related species, Aesculus californica, was formerly eaten by the Native Americans of California in times of famine. It must be leached to remove poisonous constituents before eating. Most types of acorns are too bitter to eat unless leached, because of tannins. Despite this disadvantage, acorns are an important food in many regions.
- almond; edible part is the seed of a drupe
- Brazil nuts are seeds from a capsule
- cashews are seeds
- coconut is a drupe
- horse chestnut is a capsule
- peanut, actually a bean; the fruit and seeds of a legume
- pine nut or piñon is the seed of a conifer
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The nut hand, or just the nuts, is the strongest hand possible in any particular situation. The term applies mostly to Community card games to mean the individual holding that makes the strongest hand possible with the given board of community cards. By extension, the term is used more loosely to refer to any very strong hand.For example in Texas hold'em, if the board is 5♠ 6♠ A♣ 9♠ 5♥, a player holding 7♠ 8♠ has the nuts (an 9-high straight flush in spades), and cannot lose. Sometimes it is useful to know that your hand is the second or third best possible. On this same board, the hand 5♣ 5♦ would be the second-nut hand, four fives; and the third-nut hand would be any pair of the remaining three aces, making a full house A-A-A-5-5.
In High-low split games one often speaks of "nut low" and "nut high" hands separately. With an Omaha board identical to the one above, any hand with 2-3 makes the nut low 6-5-3-2-A, while 2-4 is the second-nut low (the nut high hands remain the same).
Finally, one also hears terms such as "nut flush" or "nut full house" to mean the highest hand possible in that particular category under the circumstances, even though that may not be strictly the nut hand. For example, a pair of aces with the above board could be called the "nut full house", even though there are two higher (but very unlikely) hands possible.
- See also : Poker
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
NUT | English | National Union of Taxpayers | Finance |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: NutSynonyms: addict (n), ball (n), ballock (n), bollock (n), crackpot (n), crank (n), egg (n), en (n), freak (n), fruitcake (n), nut case (n), nutcase (n), orchis (n), screwball (n), testicle (n), testis (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cleanness | Adjective: clean, cleanly; pure; immaculate; spotless, stainless, taintless; trig; without a stain, unstained, unspotted, unsoiled, unsullied, untainted, uninfected; sweet, sweet as a nut. |
Difficulty | Nice point, delicate point, subtle point, knotty point; vexed question, vexata quaestio, poser; puzzle; (riddle); paradox; hard nut to crack, nut to crack; bone to pick, |
Misuse | Cut blocks with a razor, employ a steam engine to crack a nut; catch at a straw. |
Oil | Noun: oil, fat, butter, cream, grease, tallow, suet, lard, dripping exunge, blubber; glycerin, stearin, elaine, oleagine; soap; soft soap, wax, cerement; paraffin, spermaceti, adipocere; petroleum, mineral, mineral rock, mineral crystal, mineral oil; vegetable oil, colza oil, olive oil, salad oil, linseed oil, cottonseed oil, soybean oil, nut oil; animal oil, neat's foot oil, train oil; ointment, unguent, liniment; aceite, amole, Barbados tar; fusel oil, grain oil, rape oil, seneca oil; hydrate |
Redundancy | Send coals to Newcastle, carry coals to Newcastle, carry owls to Athens; teach one's grandmother to suck eggs; pisces natare docere;kill the slain, " gild refined gold", "gild the lily", butter one's bread on both sides, put butter upon bacon; employ a steam engine to crack a nut; (waste). |
Secret | Enigma, riddle, puzzle, nut to crack, conundrum, charade, rebus, logogriph; monogram, anagram; Sphinx; crux criticorum. |
Waste | Waste its sweetness on the desert air ; cast one's bread upon the waters, cast pearls before swine; employ a steam engine to crack a nut, waste powder and shot, break a butterfly on a wheel; labor in vain; (useless); cut blocks with a razor, pour water into a sieve. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Many of these trees were my friends I had known from nut or acorn (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) No, this is me in a nut shell: Help (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery; writing credit: Mike Myers) I'm a neurotic nut, but you're crazy (The Odd Couple; writing credit: Neil Simon) Aw, nut bunnies (Freakazoid!; writing credit: Alan Burnett; Paul Dini) We could use a nut like you down at the carnival (Carpool; writing credit: Don Rhymer) | |
Lyrics | Like charlie mack, bam, nut and wood (Ain't No Place Like Home; performing artist: Prince) | |
Clever | Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know when you'll find a nut. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bate's Car: Sweet as a Nut (1974) Some Kind of a Nut (1969) The Nautical Nut (1967) Irving the Indian Nut (1963) Loose Nut (1945) | |
Song Titles | Hell (performing artist: Squirrel Nut Zippers) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Senior Airman Julie Maxfield and 1st Lt. Karl Falk from the Air Force Material Command Top Dollar 2000 team work their way through the Tough Nut. All teams had 25 minutes to run the 15-obstacle course during competition held Dec. 7 to 11 in Gulfport, Miss. |  | Squirrel eating nut. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Squirrel reaching for nut. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | I want to trade this nut for a real watchdog!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | One ton of coal, yes : now do you want it egg coal or nut coal? : I forget, but father's a ... Credit: Library of Congress. |  | View through doorway of home in Salonika, Greece, showing family dining as boy of the house picks out nut meats in foreground. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Big U.S. naval base in Ulster built by American and British workers. Londonderry is now America's premier naval base in Europe. Nearly 800 American technicians with over 2000 local workers built it in six months, all equipment down to the last nut and bol. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Tung oil grove near Mossy Head, Florida. This is a new development in the cultivation of naval stores for oil. The trees came from China, the nut, when pressed, yields an oil used in paint manufacture. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Tightening a nut on a guide vane operating seromotor in TVA's hydroelectric plant, Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Animals. Squirrel (side view, eating nut). Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Nut" by Jason Krieger Commentary: "A macro shot of a rusted nut." | "Pine nut" by Peter Hamza Commentary: "Pine nut." |
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 | Wind; tighten; bolt; nut; cock; . |
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| Author | Quotation |
Author Unknown | Don't worry if your job is small and your rewards few. Remember that the mighty oak was once a nut like you. |
Charles Haddon Spurgeon | Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel. |
J. M. Synge | In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | He looked round at us, but said nothing till he had cracked and eaten the nut. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The collision with the mail wagon had broken two spokes and loosened the hub so that the nut no longer held |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He fitted his wrench to the enginehead bolts and turned them down evenly, one turn to each nut, around and around the series |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | These he peddles still, prompting God and disgracing man, bearing for fruit his brain only, like the nut its kernel |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Micronesia | Trade: Exports ($33 million)--fish, garments and buttons, betel nut. (references) |
Russia | Thus, increases in nut consumption in coming years will depend upon imports. (references) | |
Germany | The leading competitor for the United States in the German tree nut market is Turkey. (references) | |
Trade | Philippines | Category I includes: bakery & bakery related products; non-alcoholic beverages & beverage mixes; candies & confectionery products; cocoa & cocoa related products; coffee, tea & non-dairy creamer; condiments, sauces & seasonings; culinary products; gelatin, dessert preparation & mixes; dairy products; dressings & spreads; flour/flour mixes & starch; fish & other marine products; fruits, vegetable & edible fungi (prepared); meat and poultry products (prepared); noodles, pastas & pastry wrapper; nut & nut products; native delicacies; oils, fats & shortening; snack foods & breakfast cereals and; sugar & other related products. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Nut" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.45% of the time. "Nut" is used about 645 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.45% | 635 | 10,242 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.39% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.15% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 645 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "nut": a hard nut to crack ♦ acajou nut ♦ acorn nut ♦ apple nut ♦ areca nut ♦ babassu nut ♦ back nut ♦ Becuiba nut ♦ beech nut ♦ Ben nut ♦ betel nut ♦ black nut ♦ Bladder nut ♦ blind nut ♦ Bolt and nut ♦ bolt nut ♦ bolt with nut ♦ bonduc nut ♦ brazil nut ♦ Buffalo nut ♦ butter nut ♦ butterfly nut ♦ Candle nut ♦ cashew nut ♦ castellated nut ♦ castle nut ♦ cedar nut ♦ cembra nut ♦ cembra nut tree ♦ Check nut ♦ Chile nut ♦ chilean nut ♦ Chocolate nut ♦ coco nut ♦ cocoa nut ♦ cocoa nut milk ♦ cocoa nut oil ♦ cohune nut ♦ cola nut ♦ Constantinople nut ♦ Coquilla nut ♦ coumara nut ♦ counter nut ♦ cover nut ♦ crack a nut ♦ Cream nut ♦ dika nut ♦ do one's nut ♦ dome nut ♦ edible nut ♦ elk nut ♦ employ a steam engine to crack a nut ♦ european nut pine ♦ Finger nut ♦ flush nut ♦ Fly nut ♦ gall nut ♦ ginger nut ♦ goora nut ♦ ground nut ♦ grugru nut ♦ hard nut ♦ hard nut to crack ♦ hazel nut ♦ hazel nut tree ♦ health nut ♦ hex nut ♦ hexagon castle nut ♦ hexagon nut ♦ hexagon slotted nut ♦ hexagonal die nut ♦ hexagonal nut ♦ hiccough nut ♦ hiccup nut ♦ hickory nut ♦ ivory nut ♦ Jam nut ♦ Jesuits' nut ♦ king nut ♦ king nut hickory ♦ knurled nut ♦ kola nut ♦ kola nut tree ♦ litchi nut ♦ Lock nut ♦ Lug nut ♦ macadamia nut ♦ macadamia nut tree ♦ Madeira nut ♦ Malabar nut ♦ Marking nut ♦ mexican nut pine ♦ milled nut ♦ mocker nut ♦ monkey nut ♦ native of some of the Pacific islands It is used by the natives as a candle the nut kernels being strung together The oil from the nut ♦ neckar nut ♦ Nickar nut ♦ nicker nut ♦ nut and bolt ♦ nut bar. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "nut": nut-and-bolt, nut-bearing, nut-brown, nut-brown-haired, nut-bushes, nut-butter, nut-cake, nut-case, nut-cases, nut-chewing, nut-cracker, nut-crackers, nut-cracking, nut-eater, nut-flavoured, nut-gall, nut-hoards, nut-hook, nut-house, nut-jobber, nut-leaved screw tree, nut-like, nut-milk, nut-pine, nut-sellers, nut-shell, nut-tree, nut-trees, nut-wood. | |
Ending with "nut": ball-nut, basin-nut, beach-nut, behind-nut, bending-behind-the-nut, candle-nut, cap-nut, check-nut, cob-nut, do-nut, earth-nut, fruit-and-nut, ginger-nut, ground-nut, ground-nut, hard-nut, kerr-nut, lock-nut, monkey-nut, oak-nut, oil-nut, opera-nut, pea-nut, safety-nut, schwarzschild-nut, screw-nut, shank-to-nut, sports-nut, Taqua-nut, taub-nut, T-nut, tough-nut, wing-nut. | |
Containing "nut": betel-nut-rouged, brazil-nut tree, cohune-nut oil, coula-nut-cracking, date-nut bread, earth-nut pea, ivory-nut palm, raisin-nut cookie. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
nut | 1,492 | nut tree | 73 |
nut and bolt | 394 | truck nut | 69 |
banana nut bread | 246 | lychee nut | 67 |
lug nut | 205 | corn nut | 65 |
macadamia nut | 196 | kola nut | 61 |
banana nut bread recipe | 192 | planter nut | 59 |
agriculture beech nut | 185 | nut volt | 58 |
squirrel nut zippers | 179 | bust a nut | 56 |
beech nut | 125 | nut allergy | 54 |
pine nut | 116 | agriculture ginkgo nut | 49 |
brazil nut | 107 | brazilian nut | 48 |
agriculture brazil nut | 103 | banana nut muffin | 48 |
soy nut | 102 | nut and seed | 48 |
beech company list nut | 99 | bust jake nut | 48 |
mixed nut | 95 | grape nut | 46 |
cashew nut | 87 | weld nut | 41 |
brazil company list nut | 81 | agriculture macadamia nut | 41 |
nut grass | 77 | agriculture ground nut | 41 |
beech importer nut | 74 | company list nut | 40 |
pistachio nut | 73 | dried fruit and nut | 39 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "nut"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | qymyr i imët (nuts), mbledh arra, lajthi (cobnut, Filbert, hazelnut, nit), kundërvidhë (safety-nut, screw, screw-nut), kokë (block, bulb, catchword, conk, dome, head, loaf, nob, noddle, noggin, noodle, onion, pate, poll, pommel), i krisur (balmy, bonkers, cracked, crackers, cuckoo, Daffy, dare devil, daring, desperate, devil may care, flaky, hard on, loon, loony, madcap, nuts, pixilated, potty, screwball, wacky), dado (Ayah, baby sitter, childminder, nanny, nurse, screw), budalla (anserine, anserous, asinine, ass, blunderhead, booby, brainless, cabbage-head, chuckle-head, clod, cloddish, clod-poll, cockeyed, daft, dense, Dick, dim witted, dimwit, dumb, dumbbell, fathead, fool, gaby, gaga, goof, goofy, goon, Goosey, gowk, half wit, idiot, idle-headed, imbecile, jobbernowl, jolterhead, josser, juggins, loon, mindless, moke, muff, mutton head, mutton-headed, nerd, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, owl, pin head, pumpkin-head, sheep's head, silly, slow witted, softhead, soft-headed, softy, spoony, stupid, tomfool, tom-noddy, witless), bajame (almond, almond tree, quinsy, tonsil, tonsillitis, tonsils), arrë (nit, walnut). (various references) | |
Arabic | مجنون (barmy, bedlam, bonkers, crazy, daft, demented, dotty, fool, insane, mad, madcap, maniac, maniacal, off one's nut, out of one's head, out of one's mind, scatty, screwy, tomfool, up the pole), مشكلة (issue, kink, labyrinth, nodus, problem, question, snag, trouble, twister), حزقة, جمع الجوز, جوز (walnut), رأس الإنسان (head), شخص أحمق (birdbrained, block, bonehead, half wit, nitwit, sap, silly), بندق (hazel, hazelnut). (various references) | |
Basque | intzaur (walnut). (various references) | |
Bavarian | niss. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | събирам орехи, смахнат човек (loon, screwball, wittol, zany), ядка (core, kernel, local, marrow, meat, nub), фъстък (earthnut, groundnut, midget, monkey-nut, peanut), тиква (knob, loaf, nob, noddle, noggin, onion, pate, pumpkin, squash), кратуна (calabash, cocoanut, cucurbit, gourd, nob, noddle, think tank), конте (adonis, beau, chappy, corinthian, dude, exquisite, fop, gallant, jack-a-dandy, popinjay, sharpy, swell, toff), гайка (loop, screw), глава (attic, beer, bulb, chief, chump, compartment, conk, crumpet, head, knob, loaf, nob, noddle, noggin, onion, pate, poll, sconce, topknot), орех (nut tree, walnut), муфа с резба, лешник (hazelnut). (various references) | |
Catalan | nou (new, nine, novel). (various references) | |
Chinese | 坚果 (nuts, nutty), 堅果 . (various references) | |
Czech | ořech (earth-nut, Filbert, knob, nut tree, walnut), oříšek (mongrel, nutlet), matice (matrix), blázen (fool, freak, gander, lunatic, nutcase). (various references) | |
Danish | møtrik (female screw, internal screw). (various references) | |
Dutch | moer (female, marsh, swamp). (various references) | |
Esperanto | nukso, boltingo, ŝraŭbingo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | nøt, skrúvurógv, møtrikur, holskrúva. (various references) | |
Farsi | مهره (Bead, Die, Glaze, Vertebra, Vertebrate), چرخ دنده ساعت , خل (Crackpot, Halfbaked, Light, Offbeat, Queer, Screwy), جوز, اجیل گرداوردن , اجیل , دیوانه (Bedlam, Berserk, Crazy, Cuckoo, Demented, Fanatic, Fey, Gaga, Harebrained, Insane, Loco, Loony, Lunatic, Mad, Madbrained, Madcap, Manic, Natural, Nutty, Psychotic). (various references) | |
Finnish | pähkinä (hazel-nut). (various references) | |
French | écrou, noix (nuts). (various references) | |
Frisian | nút. (various references) | |
German | Schraubenmutter (female screw, screw-nut), Mutter (mama, mamma, mom, mommy, mother, parent), Nuß, nuss (drip, jerk, punch). (various references) | |
Greek | παξιμάδι (biscuit, cracker, rusk, sippet). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אדם מוזר (crank, whacky), אגוז (walnut). (various references) | |
Hungarian | dió (nit, walnut), anyacsavar (female screw). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sekrup (screw), pesolek (beau, dandy, dude, fop, nutty), mur, kacang. (various references) | |
Irish | cnó. (various references) | |
Italian | noce (walnut, walnut-tree), madrevite (female screw, internal screw, main spindle, spindle), dado (dado, dice, die). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 実 (confidence, content, devotion, essence, faith, fidelity, fruit, good result, kindness, reality, reliance, seed, sincerity, substance, trust, truth). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ナット (pet), きのみ (berry, fruit), かじつ (appearance and content, auspicious occasion, beautiful day, berry., flowers and fruit, fruit, good day, interior and exterior, name and reality, recently, summer day, the other day), このみ (berry, choice, fruit, liking, taste), けんか (brawl, failure, flower offering, prefecture, price of a cocoon, quarrel), み (body, content, fruit, good result, main part, not yet, oneself, seed, sixth sign of Chinese zodiac, sword, three). (various references) | |
Korean | 견과 (nuts). (various references) | |
Manx | cro (gall), chionneyder (brace, inflater, strainer, tightener). (various references) | |
Mohawk | ohsòkwa. (various references) | |
Norwegian | nøtt, mutter. (various references) | |
Occitan | notz (walnut). (various references) | |
Papago | tol-nihyo. (various references) | |
Papiamen | nòt. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | utnay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | porca (drab, draggle-tail, screw, sow, traipse), noz (hazelnut, walnut). (various references) | |
Romanian | nucã (ball, cob, walnut), nemaipomenit (abject, bright, bully, egregious, lovely, lumme, magnificent, priceless, sad, tremendous, unbelievable, unheard of, unparalleled, unprecedented), miez de nucã, alunã (Filbert, Hazel, hazel nut), bucşã (axle box, cannon, muff, pap), cap (bean, beginning, brains, Cape, chief, chump, end, foreland, front, head, heading, headland, judgment, knob, lid, loaf, mastermind, Mull, Ness, noddle, noggin, pate, peak, peninsula, pericranium, pommel, promontory, rock, sense, skull, top, understanding), culege nuci, dovleac (chump, knob, nob, noddle, noggin, pate, pumpkin, sconce), excentric (bizarre, crackpot, cranky, crazy, crotchety, eccentric, extravagant, fancy, fantastic, fantastical, lunatic, maggot, odd, oddity, original, queer, tappet), aiurit (blunder-head, distracted, distraught, driveller, drivelling, flighty, foolish, giddy, hare-brained, irresponsible, light-headed, muddle-head, oddball, scatterbrain, scatterbrains, silly, thoughtless, twaddling, whiffler, wool gathering, wrongheaded), manşon (chuck, collar, muff, sheath, sleeve, thimble), tigvã (apex, bean, nob, noddle, pate, skull), mufã, piuliţã (female screw, internal screw, mortar, screw-nut), prostãnac (Cully, daft, dolt, fat, fat-head, gowk, gudgeon, hobbledehoy, noodle, pigeon, soft-headed, tomfool, zany), tãrtãcuţã (gourd, noggin), tembel (slacker, slothful, sluggard, sluggish), gãgãuţã (booby, dupe, gander, innocent, ninny, nitwit, noddy, rook, spoony, sucker). (various references) | |
Russian | собирать орехи, чудак (card, codger, faddist, freak, gink, odd card, odd fish, oddball, queer bird, queer card, queer customer, queer fish, rum customer, rum fellow, weirdie, weirdo, weirdy), голова (bonce, chump, conk, head, jowl, knob, nob, noggin, noodle, pate, think-tank), гайка (female screw, internal screw, screw-nut), гаечный, орех;псих ореховый, орех лесной, орех (hazelnut), орешник (nut tree, nut-tree, nutwood), муфта (clutch, coupling, ferrule, muff, sleeve, thimble, union), дурак (berk, blunderhead, bonehead, bone-head, cuddy, dimwit, fool, goof, goose, half-wit, jackass, juggins, lack-brain, log-head, man of Gotham, moke, mutt, mutton-head, ninny, nitwit, pin-head, pumpkin-head, sap-head, sheep's head, sheep's-head, silly, softy, tomfool, tomnoddy, wise man of Gotham, wooden head). (various references) | |
Scottish | cnò (a nut). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | navrtanj, u obliku oraha, orah (walnut), ludak (berserk, berserker, crackpot, lunatic, madman), lud (berserk, bonkers, buggy, crazy, daft, demented, distraught, head: off his head, insane, loco, lunatic, mad, nut: off one's nut, nuts), brati orahe, čudak (cuss, eccentric, geezer, odd fellow, unco, weirdie). (various references) | |
Spanish | tuerca (screw), nuez (cobnut, walnut). (various references) | |
Sranan | noto. (various references) | |
Swedish | nöt (ass, bovine, bovine animal, nutlet), mutter (screw-nut). (various references) | |
Thai | ผลไม้แห้งเปลือกแข็ง, คนบ้า (headcase, loonie, lunatic). (various references) | |
Turkish | somun (bolt nut, loaf), sap (butt, cauline, grip, haft, halm, handgrip, handhold, handle, haulm, helve, hilt, lug, peduncle, scape, shaft, shank, stag, stalk, stem, stick, Stipe, stock), kafa (bean, brains, cast of mind, chump, coconut, conk, costard, end, head, headpiece, intelligence, knob, nob, noddle, noggin, noodle, onion, pate, poll, potato, savvy, sconce), kabuklu yemiş, kaçık (a button short, balmy, barmy, Batty, certifiable, crack-brained, cracked, cuckoo, daft, disordered, Dotty, fantastic, fantastical, fey, ladder, loco, not all there, nutcase, nutty, off one's onion, out of one's mind, pixilated, queer, queer in the head, run, scatty, screwy, wacky, whacky), findik, fındık toplamak, delice sevme, ceviz toplamak, çatlak (balmy, barmy, break, chap, chapped, chappy, chink, chip, cleft, cloven, crack, crack-brained, cracked, crackers, cracky, cranny, crevasse, crevice, cuckoo, disordered, fault, fissure, flaw, fracture, fractured, hoarse, interstice, interstitial, meshuggah, nutty, off one's chump, off one's rocker, pixilated, potty, queer, queer in the head, rift, rupture, rusty, screwy, shake, shaken, shaky, split, spring, touched), çılgın (berserk, bonkers, crackpot, crazed, crazy, delirious, demented, demon, demoniac, desperado, distracted, foolhardy, frenetic, frenzied, insane, kook, kooky, lunatic, mad, maniacal, moonstruck, phrenetic, possessed, raving, rip roaring, ripsnorter, scatty, wild). (various references) | |
Turkmen | hoz. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | франт (beau, dude, exquisite, jackanapes, toff), горіх (nit, nut tree), голова (attic, bean, chair, chairman, chief, conk, head, nob, noddle, noggin, noodle, onion, pate, president, topknot), гайка, навіжений (addle, balmy, barmy, extravagant, nuts, nutty, screwball, wild, wildcat), міцний горішок (back-breaker), муфта (clutch, collar, muff, sleeve, socket, thimble), мізкувати, молодець (well done), метикувати, макітра (chump, garret, noddle, noggin, noodle, onion), збирати горіхи, псих (nut case, psycho, wack, whack), пончик (fritter, nut-cake), дженджик (toff). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người gàn dở gàn dở, việc hắc búa, thích ham cừ, say mê (absorbed, crazily, dotingly, keen), mất trí (chump, distracted, distraught, insane, loose, nutty), giỏi (adept, consummate, conversant, dab, death, famously, versed, well-up). (various references) | |
Welsh | cneuen. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | nucis, nucum. (various references) |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | escroue. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "nut": nutant, nutate, nutated, nutates, nutating, nutation, nutational, nutations, nutbrown, nutcase, nutcases, nutcracker, nutcrackers, nutgall, nutgalls, nutgrass, nutgrasses, nuthatch, nuthatches, nuthouse, nuthouses, nutlet, nutlets, nutlike, nutmeat, nutmeats, nutmeg, nutmegs, nutpick, nutpicks, nutria, nutrias, nutrient, nutrients, nutriment, nutriments, nutrition, nutritional, nutritionally, nutritionist, nutritionists, nutritions, nutritious, nutritiously, nutritiousness, nutritiousnesses, nutritive, nutritively, nuts, nutsedge, nutsedges. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "nut": beechnut, betelnut, bladdernut, breadnut, butternut, candlenut, chestnut, cobnut, cocoanut, coconut, donut, doughnut, earthnut, gallnut, groundnut, hazelnut, hognut, locknut, peanut, pignut, thumbnut, walnut. (additional references) | |
Words containing "nut": beechnuts, betelnuts, bladdernuts, breadnuts, butternuts, candlenuts, chestnuts, cobnuts, cocoanuts, coconuts, comminute, comminuted, comminutes, comminuting, comminution, comminutions, cornute, cornuted, cornuto, cornutos, diminution, diminutions, diminutive, diminutively, diminutiveness, diminutivenesses, diminutives, donuts, doughnutlike, doughnuts, earthnuts, gallnuts, groundnuts, hazelnuts, hognuts, inutile, inutilities, inutility, locknuts, macronutrient, macronutrients, malnutrition, malnutritions, micronutrient, micronutrients, minute, minuted, minutely, minuteman, minutemen, minuteness. (additional references) | |
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