nut
1. usually large hard-shelled seed (Freq. 2)
• Derivationally related forms:
nutty
• Hypernyms:
seed
• Hyponyms:
edible nut, cembra nut, cedar nut, kola nut, cola nut,
mast, palm nut, palm kernel, nutlet
2. a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt (Freq. 1)
• Hypernyms:
block
• Hyponyms:
hex nut, locknut, safety nut, square nut, stuffing nut,
packing nut, wing nut, wing-nut, wing screw, butterfly nut, thumbnut
• Part Holonyms:
nut and bolt
3. half the width of an em
• Syn:
en
• Hypernyms:
linear unit, linear measure
• Part Holonyms:
em, pica em, pica
4. a whimsically eccentric person
• Syn:
crackpot, crank, nut case, fruitcake, screwball
• Derivationally related forms:
screwball (for: screwball)
• Hypernyms:
eccentric, eccentric person, flake, oddball, geek
5. one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
- she kicked him in the balls and got away
• Syn:
testis, testicle, orchis, ball, ballock,
bollock, egg
• Derivationally related forms:
testicular (for: testicle)
• Hypernyms:
male reproductive gland, gonad, sex gland
• Hyponyms:
cobblers, undescended testis, undescended testicle
• Part Holonyms:
male reproductive system, male genitalia, male genitals, male genital organ, family jewels
• Part Meronyms:
testicular artery, internal spermatic artery, arteria testicularis, testicular vein, vena testicularis,
seminiferous tubule, epididymis, rete testis, vas deferens, ductus deferens, spermatic cord
6. someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction
- a golf addict
- a car nut
- a bodybuilding freak
- a news junkie
• Syn:
addict, freak, junkie, junky
• Derivationally related forms:
addict (for: addict)
• Hypernyms:
enthusiast, partisan, partizan
• Hyponyms:
gym rat
gather nuts
• Hypernyms:
gather, garner, collect, pull together
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s PP
- In the summer they like to go out and nut
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