English Dictionary

nut

IPA（発音記号）

/nʌt/

名詞

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(food, broadly) Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants. / (botany, strictly) Such a fruit that is indehiscent.

日本語の意味

硬い殻に覆われた種子または果実、つまり食用に供されるナッツ類 / 植物学的には成熟しても自らは裂けず、内部に種子を保持する果実（不裂果）の一種

He shelled a nut and sprinkled the pieces over his salad.

彼はナッツの殻を割り、その欠片をサラダに散らした。

意味（1）

(food, broadly) Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.

意味（2）

(botany, strictly) Such a fruit that is indehiscent.

意味（3）

(hardware) 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.

As the bolt tightens into the nut, it pulls the tenon on the side rail into the mortise in the bedpost and locks them together. There are also some European beds that reverse the bolt and nut by setting the nut into the bedpost with the bolt inserted into a slotted area in the side of the rail.

意味（4）

(slang) A crazy person.

He was driving his car like a nut.

意味（5）

(slang) The head.

Let the Cream get firmly in her nut the idea that Sir Roderick Glossop was not the butler, the whole butler and nothing but the butler, and disaster, as I saw it, loomed.

意味（6）

(US, slang) Monthly expense to keep a venture running.

意味（7）

(US, slang) The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.

My attorney was waiting in a bar around the corner. “This won't make the nut,” he said, “unless we have unlimited credit.”

意味（8）

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

意味（9）

(music, lutherie) 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.

意味（10）

(typography slang) En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.

意味（11）

(dated, UK, slang) An extravagantly fashionable young man.

‘You are not going to be what they call a Nut, are you?’ she inquired with some anxiety, partly with the idea that a Nut would be an extravagance which her sister's small household would scarcely be justified in incurring ….

意味（12）

(vulgar, slang, chiefly plural) A testicle.

I kicked him in the nuts.

意味（13）

(vulgar, slang, uncountable) Semen, ejaculate.

As loudmouthed lovermen, these Lil Jon-endorsed ATLiens denigrate women from the window to the wall, generously offering to make nut come out your nose.

意味（14）

(vulgar, slang, countable) Orgasm, ejaculation; especially release of semen.

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

意味（15）

(colloquial) An extreme enthusiast.

a fashion nut

意味（16）

(climbing) 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.)

When placing nuts, always look for constrictions within the crack, behind which the nut can be wedged.

意味（17）

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

nut straight = the best possible straight available (it can't be beat by any other straight, though it can still be beat by a better non-straight hand)

意味（18）

(firearms) The tumbler of a gunlock.

意味（19）

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

意味（20）

(archaic) A small rounded cake or cookie.

dough-nut

nuts （ plural ）