nut

CEFRA2

/nʌt/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A hard-shelled seed that can be eaten.

  2. 02

    noun

    A small metal piece screwed onto a bolt.

Examples

  • Eliminating the deficit will be a hard nut to crack.

  • He used a metal wrench to tighten the loose nut.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

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5
Parts of speech
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Citations
5
Synonyms
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Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

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

  2. Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.

  3. Such a fruit that is indehiscent.

More examples

In context

  • He's a car nut. Ask him anything.

  • He was driving his car like a nut.

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

Synonyms

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The clever squirrel cracked open the hard shell of the blank to get the small seed inside.

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Origin

noun

From Middle English note, nute, from Old English hnutu, from Proto-West Germanic *hnut, from Proto-Germanic *hnuts (“nut”), from a root *knu- possibly shared with Proto-Celtic *knūs and Latin nux (“nut”). Based on the form of the nouns and the restriction of the root to Germanic, Celtic and Italic, it has been argued to be of non-Indo-European (substrate) origin. See also West Frisian nút, Dutch noot, German Nuss, Danish nød, Swedish nöt, Norwegian nøtt.