Word Finder - nuts

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A hard-shelled seed.

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There are many sort of nuts: peanuts, cashews, pistachios, Brazil nuts and more.

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A piece of metal, usually square or hexagonal in shape, with a hole through it having machined internal threads, intended to be screwed onto a bolt or other threaded shaft.

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A crazy person.

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He was driving his car like a nut.

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• loony
• nutbag
• nutcase
• nutter

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The head.

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• bonce
• noodle

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Monthly expense to keep a venture running.

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The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.

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A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.

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On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.

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En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.

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An extravagantly fashionable young man.

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(chiefly plural) A testicle.

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I kicked him in the nuts.

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• ball
• bollock
• nads

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Semen, ejaculate.

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Orgasm, ejaculation; especially release of semen

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He just needs a good nut to make him feel better.

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An extreme enthusiast.

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a fashion nut

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A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts [sense #2] were used for this purpose.)

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(only in attributive use) The best possible hand of a certain type, for instance: "nut straight", "nut flush", and "nut full house". Compare nuts.

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nut flush = the best possible flush available

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The tumbler of a gunlock.

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

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(mostly in the form "nutting") To gather nuts.

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To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.

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(mildly) To orgasm; to ejaculate.

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Insane, mad.

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After living on the island alone for five years, he eventually went nuts.

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Crazy, mad; unusually pleased or, alternatively, angered.

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I just go nuts over her fantastic desserts.

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Very fond of (on) someone.

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He's been nuts on her since the day they met.

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Indicates annoyance, anger, or disappointment.

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Nuts! They didn't even listen to what I had to say.

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Signifies rejection of a proposal or idea, as in forget it, no way, or nothing doing; often followed by to.

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They want me to pay $5 for a banana? Nuts to that!

The chief trade is in, and the principal exports are, palm oil and kernels, rubber, cotton, maize, groundnuts (Arachis), shea-butter from the Bassia parkii (Sapotaceae), fibres of the Raphia vinifera, and the Sansevieria guineensis, indigo, and kola nuts, ebony and other valuable wood.

Trade with Persia and India, as also with the Khazars and the Russians, and undoubtedly with Biarmia (Urals), was, however, their chief occupation, their main riches being furs, leather, wool, nuts, wax and so on.

My boss was going make me send a form letter back to each of them until she saw how many nuts there were out there.

It must drive him nuts not knowing.

Jackson, please, I'm going nuts here.

It would drive me nuts to have someone instructing me through every move.

Later, as they descended the stairs to the hall, Dean commented, "It's nice to think Annie and her friends are up there in heaven smiling down on us, probably thinking that we're nuts for always taking on everyone's problems."

Corn, raw cotton, hides, wool, nuts and dried fruit are exported.

Grapes are grown on the mountain sides, cranberries on the bog lands near the coast, and nuts in the S.E.

She claimed Shipton was nuts to have her back, when in reality, who knows how he felt?

The owners said there were wild plum and cherry trees, all kinds of nuts and berries - a regular gold mine of natural food.

The milk is then carefully dried by turning the mould round and round in the smoke produced by burning wood mixed with certain oily palm nuts; those of A ttalea excelsa are considered best, the smoke being confined within certain limits by the narrowness of the neck of the pot in which the nuts are heated.

The collection of Brazil nuts along the Amazon and its tributaries is essentially a poor man's industry, requiring no other plant than a boat.

The exports cover a wide range of agricultural, pastoral and natural productions, including coffee, rubber, sugar, cotton, cocoa, Brazil nuts, mate (Paraguay tea), hides, skins, fruits, gold, diamonds, manganese ore, cabinet woods and medicinal leaves, roots and resins.

Some have excluded all cooked foods, and have preached the virtues of fruits and nuts and grains in their natural ripe state.

The village appeared to me a great news room; and on one side, to support it, as once at Redding & Company's on State Street, they kept nuts and raisins, or salt and meal and other groceries.

These nuts, as far as they went, were a good substitute for bread.

There are all kinds of different tools, pitons, hammers to set pitons, ice screws, pound-ins, ice hooks, wired nuts and cams—different stuff for different surfaces.

The manufacture of woollens, linens, hosiery, furniture, gloves, paper, machinery and tools, carriages, nuts and screws, needles and other hardware goods is carried on.

At last they reached a great forest, and, being quite tired, they decided to rest awhile and look for nuts before going any further.

They grew also behind my house, and one large tree, which almost overshadowed it, was, when in flower, a bouquet which scented the whole neighborhood, but the squirrels and the jays got most of its fruit; the last coming in flocks early in the morning and picking the nuts out of the burs before they fell, I relinquished these trees to them and visited the more distant woods composed wholly of chestnut.

Evelyn handled it all with cheerfulness while Kiera stressed over the shade of flowers clashing with the décor, and the cake containing nuts, which Romas was allergic to.

Talking of Bartlett, I have a new naff polyphonic ringtone to replace the Rasmus which has been driving people nuts.

Large edible nuts are derived from Coula edulis of the order Olacineae.

The total cost per mile of such a line, including all bolts, nuts, fish-plates and fastenings, ready for laying,, delivered in the United Kingdom, is under Soo a mile.

Many varieties of fruit are grown, especially good being the apricots, peaches, walnuts and hazel nuts.

Steamers ascend this river as far as Bilyutai, near the Mongolian frontier, and bring back tea, imported via Kiakhta, while grain, cedar nuts, salt, soda, wool and timber are shipped on rafts down the Khilok, Chikoi and Uda (tributaries of the Selenga), and manufactured goods are taken up the river for export to China.

Pecan nuts are a promising crop, and many groves were planted after 1905.

Among nuts the native pecan is exceptionally abundant, the product (637,470 lb in 1899) being much greater than that of any other state save Texas.

The point of this leading shoot is subsequently pinched off, that it may not draw away too much of the sap. If the fruit sets too abundantly, it must be thinned, first when as large as peas, reducing the clusters, and then when as large as nuts to distribute the crop equally; the extent of the thinning must depend on the vigour of the tree, but one or two fruits ultimately left to each square foot of wall is a full average crop. The final thinning should take place after stoning.

The nuts are the fruit of the Bertholletia excelsa, one of the largest trees of the Amazon forest region, and are enclosed, sixteen to eighteen in number, in a hard, thick pericarp. Another nut-producing tree is the sapucaia (Lecythis ollaria), whose nuts are enclosed in a larger pericarp, and are considered to be better flavoured than those first described.

The principal products are rubber, cacao and nuts; cattle are raised on the elevated plains of the north, while curing fish and collecting turtle eggs for their oil give occupation to many people on the rivers.

At the present day the tree is largely cultivated in most temperate countries for the sake of its timber or for its edible nuts.

In some parts of England the trees are thrashed with rods or poles to obtain the nuts, but this is not a commendable mode of collecting them.

The prosperity of the town is largely due to the export trade in phosphates, esparto grass, oil, almonds, pistachio nuts, sponges, wool, &c. There is in the Gulf of Gabes a rise and fall of 5 ft.

When these are held from turning, their frictional resistance may be adjusted by means of nuts on the screwed bolts which hold them together until the shaft revolves at a given speed.

The heating at the surfaces, the variations in their smoothness, and the variations of the lubrication make continuously variable, and necessitate frequent adjustment of W or of the nuts.

The leading crops and their percentages of the total crop value were hay and forage (39.1%), vegetables (23.9%), fruits and nuts (11.7%), forest products (8.4%), and flowers and plants (7.1%).

Some have given up all grain and pulse foods, and have declared that old age can be best resisted by living entirely upon fruits, salads, nuts, soft water and milk products.

Besides its gold mines, the wine, nuts and marble of Thasos were well known in antiquity.

Maize, millet, rye, flax, liquorice and fruits of all sorts - especially nuts, almonds, oranges, figs, walnuts and chestnuts - are produced.

The chief purpose for which betel nuts are cultivated and collected is for use as a masticatory, - their use in this form being so widespread among Oriental nations that it is estimated that onetenth of the whole human family indulge in betel chewing.

Betel nuts are further used as a source of catechu, which is procured by boiling the nuts in water.

The water of the first boiling becomes red and thick, and when this is inspissated after the removal of the nuts it forms a catechu of high astringency and dark colour called in Bombay "Kossa."

The nuts are again boiled, and the inspissated juice of the second decoction yields a weaker catechu of a brown or reddish colour.

Betel nuts have been used by turners for ornamental purposes, and for coat buttons on account of the beauty of their structure.

The nuts of other species of Areca are used by the poorer classes in the East as substitutes for the genuine betel nut.

The natural and forest products of Mexico include the agave and yucca (ixtle) fibres already mentioned; the " ceibon " fibre derived from the silk-cotton tree (Bombax pentandria); rubber and vanilla in addition to the cultivated products; palm oil; castor beans; ginger; chicle, the gum extracted from the " chico-zapote " tree (Achras sapota); logwood and other dye-woods; mahogany, rosewood, ebony, cedar and other valuable woods; " cascalote " or divi-divi; jalap root (Ipomaea); sarsaparilla (Smilax); nuts and fruits.

The village has various manufactures, including bolts and nuts, motors for racing boats and automobiles; there are also large planing and wood-moulding mills.

Precious stones ($43,620,591); fruits and nuts; copper, iron and steel; tobacco (leaf $25,897,650; manufactured, $4,138,521); tin; spirits, wines and liquors; oils, paper, works of art, tea and leather ($16,270,406), being the remaining items in excess of $15,000,000 each.