English-Thai Dictionary

nut

N คนบ้า  kon-ba

 

nut

N ผลไม้ แห้ง เปลือก แข็ง  ถั่ว  seed kernel pon-la-mai-hang-pluek-kang

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

NUT

n.[It seems to be allied to knot, a bunch or hard lump. ] 1. The fruit of certain trees and shrubs, consisting of a hard shell inclosing a kernel. A nut is properly the pericarp of the fruit. Various kinds of nuts are distinguished; as walnut, chestnut, hazlenut, butternut.
2. In mechanics, a small cylinder or other body, with teeth or projections corresponding with the teeth or grooves of a wheel.
3. The projection near the eye of an anchor.

 

NUT

v.t.To gather nuts.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

NUT

Nut, n. Etym: [OE. nute, note, AS. hnutu; akin to D. noot, G. nuss, OHG. nuz, Icel. hnot, Sw. nöt, Dan. nöd.]

 

1. (Bot. )

 

Defn: The fruit of certain trees and shrubs (as of the almond, walnut, hickory, beech, filbert, etc. ), consisting of a hard and indehiscent shell inclosing a kernel.

 

2. A perforated block (usually a small piece of metal ), provided with an internal or female screw thread, used on a bolt, or screw, for tightening or holding something, or for transmitting motion. See Illust. of lst Bolt.

 

3. The tumbler of a gunlock. Knight.

 

4. (Naut. )

 

Defn: A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place. Check nut, Jam nut, Lock nut, a nut which is screwed up tightly against another nut on the same bolt or screw, in order to prevent accidental unscrewing of the first nut. -- Nut buoy. See under Buoy. -- Nut coal, screened coal of a size smaller than stove coal and larger than pea coal; -- called also chestnut coal. -- Nut crab (Zoöl.), any leucosoid crab of the genus Ebalia as, Ebalia tuberosa of Europe. -- Nut grass (Bot. ), a plant of the Sedge family (Cyperus rotundus, var. Hydra ), which has slender rootstocks bearing small, nutlike tubers, by which the plant multiplies exceedingly, especially in cotton fields. -- Nut lock, a device, as a metal plate bent up at the corners, to prevent a nut from becoming unscrewed, as by jarring. -- Nut pine. (Bot. ) See under Pine. -- Nut rush (Bot. ), a genus of cyperaceous plants (Scleria ) having a hard bony achene. Several species are found in the United States and many more in tropical regions. -- Nut tree, a tree that bears nuts. -- Nut weevil (Zoöl.), any species of weevils of the genus Balaninus and other allied genera, which in the larval state live in nuts.

 

NUT

Nut, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Nutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Nutting. ]

 

Defn: To gather nuts.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

NUT

NUT ▶abbreviation (in the UK ) National Union of Teachers.

 

Nut

Nut |no͞ot nut |Egyptian Mythology the sky goddess, thought to swallow the sun at night and give birth to it in the morning.

 

nut

nut |nət nət | ▶noun 1 a fruit consisting of a hard or tough shell around an edible kernel. • the hard kernel of such a fruit. • informal a person's head. • (usu. nuts ) vulgar slang testicles. 2 a small flat piece of metal or other material, typically square or hexagonal, with a threaded hole through it for screwing onto a bolt as a fastener. • Music the part at the lower end of the bow of a violin or similar instrument, with a screw for adjusting the tension of the hair. 3 informal a crazy or eccentric person. • [ with modifier ] a person who is excessively interested in or enthusiastic about a specified thing: a football nut. 4 the fixed ridge on the neck of a stringed instrument over which the strings pass. ▶verb ( nuts, nutting , nutted ) 1 [ no obj. ] (usu. as noun nutting ) archaic gather nuts. 2 [ with obj. ] Brit. informal butt (someone ) with one's head. PHRASES do one's nut Brit. informal be extremely angry or agitated. nuts and bolts informal the basic practical details: the nuts and bolts of public policy. off one's nut informal out of one's mind; crazy. a tough (or hard ) nut informal someone who is difficult to deal with; a formidable person. a tough (or hard ) nut to crack informal a difficult problem or an opponent hard to beat. DERIVATIVES nut like |-ˌlīk |adjective ORIGIN Old English hnutu, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch noot and German Nuss .

 

Oxford Dictionary

NUT

NUT ▶abbreviation (in the UK ) National Union of Teachers.

 

Nut

Nut |nʊt |Egyptian Mythology the sky goddess, thought to swallow the sun at night and give birth to it in the morning.

 

nut

nut |nʌt | ▶noun 1 a fruit consisting of a hard or tough shell around an edible kernel. • the hard kernel of a nut. • (usu. nuts ) a small lump of something hard or solid, especially coal. 2 a small flat piece of metal or other material, typically square or hexagonal, with a threaded hole through it for screwing on to a bolt as a fastener. • the part at the lower end of the bow of a violin or similar instrument, with a screw for adjusting the tension of the hair. 3 informal a crazy or eccentric person. • [ with adj. or noun modifier ] a person who is excessively interested in or enthusiastic about a specified thing: a football nut. 4 informal a person's head. 5 (nuts ) vulgar slang a man's testicles. 6 the fixed ridge on the neck of a stringed instrument over which the strings pass. ▶verb ( nuts, nutting, nutted ) 1 [ with obj. ] Brit. informal butt (someone ) with one's head. 2 [ no obj. ] (usu. as noun nutting ) archaic gather nuts. PHRASES do one's nut Brit. informal become extremely angry or agitated. nuts and bolts informal the basic practical details: the nuts and bolts of making a movie. off one's nut informal out of one's mind; crazy. a tough (or hard ) nut informal someone who is difficult to deal with; a formidable person. a tough (or hard ) nut to crack informal a difficult problem or an opponent that is hard to beat. use (or take ) a sledgehammer to crack a nut informal use disproportionately drastic measures to deal with a simple problem. DERIVATIVES nut-like adjective ORIGIN Old English hnutu, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch noot and German Nuss .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

nut

nut noun 1 nuts in their shells: kernel, nutmeat. 2 informal some nut arrived at the office: maniac, lunatic, madman, madwoman; eccentric; informal loony, nutcase, fruitcake, fruit loop, head case, crank, crackpot, weirdo, screwball, crazy, dingbat, loon. 3 informal a health nut: enthusiast, fan, devotee, aficionado; informal freak, fiend, fanatic, addict, buff, bum. PHRASES off one's nut informal See mad (sense 1 ).

 

Oxford Thesaurus

nut

nut noun 1 nuts in their shells: kernel. 2 informal he cracked him on the nut with a poker: head, skull, cranium; informal noodle, noddle, nob, noggin, dome; Brit. informal bonce, napper; Scottish & N. English informal poll; informal, dated bean, conk; archaic pate, Costard, crumpet. 3 informal some nut will pretty soon come up with an appropriate conspiracy theory: madman /madwoman, maniac, lunatic; eccentric; informal loony, nutcase, nutter, fruitcake, head case, basket case, headbanger, schizo, crank, crackpot, oddball, weirdo, weirdie; Brit. informal odd bod; Scottish informal radge; N. Amer. informal screwball, crazy, kook, nutso, meshuggener, wacko, wack; N. Amer. & Austral. /NZ informal dingbat. 4 informal he's a movie nut: enthusiast, fan, fanatic, addict, devotee, aficionado; informal freak, fiend, maniac, buff, -head, a great one for; N. Amer. informal geek, jock; S. African informal fundi.

 

Duden Dictionary

Nut

Nut Substantiv, feminin Fachsprache , die |N u t |die Nut; Genitiv: der Nut, Plural: die Nuten (in der Technik nur so )mittelhochdeutsch, althochdeutsch nuot, zu mittelhochdeutsch nüejen, althochdeutsch nuoen = genau zusammenfügen längliche Einkerbung, durch die Teile von Maschinen, Möbeln usw. miteinander verbunden werden können Bretter auf Nut einschieben

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

nut

nut /nʌt /(形 )nutty 名詞 複 ～s /-ts /C 1 木の実 , ナッツ ; (木の実の )仁 （じん ）(kernel )▸ a toasted pine nut 煎 （い ）った松の実 ▸ mixed nuts ミックスナッツ ▸ crack a nut 木の実を割る ▸ gather nuts 木の実を拾い集める .2 ナット, 留め [親, 雌 ]ねじ 〘輪状で, 中心の穴に棒くぎ状のboltをねじ込んで締める 〙.3 a. ｟主に米 くだけて ｠頭のいかれたやつ, 気の違ったやつ ; 変わり者, 頑固者 (｟英 ｠nutter )(→nuts )▸ You're fucking nuts !｟卑 ｠おまえらはくそばか野郎だ b. ｟くだけて ｠〖複合語で 〗…狂, …ファン ; «…の » 熱狂的愛好家 (freak ) «about » ▸ a baseball nut ≒a nut about baseball 野球狂 4 ｟英俗 ｠頭, 脳 ▸ Use your nut !頭を使ったらどうだ 5 ｟俗 ｠〖～s 〗きんたま (testicles ).6 ｟英 ｠〖通例 ～s 〗石炭 [バター ]の小さい塊 .a h à rd [t ò ugh ] n ú t (to cr á ck )｟ややくだけて ｠付き合いにくいやつ ; 解決し難いもの .be n ú ts for [to ] A A 〈人 〉にうってつけである, 大好物である .be ò ff one's n ú t ｟英 くだけた話 ｠〈人が 〉狂っている, 頭がおかしい, ばかみたいである .d ò one's n ú t ｟英 くだけた話 ｠〈人が 〉激怒する ; 発狂する [したようにふるまう ]; 心配する .for n ú ts ｟話 ｠〖通例can 'tと共に用いて 〗少しも (…できない )▸ I couldn't sing the song for nuts .その曲が全然歌えなかった the n ù ts and b ó lts of A ｟くだけた話 ｠A 〈物 事など 〉の本質, 基本 ; A 〈機械など 〉の可動部, 仕組み ▸ the nuts and bolts of the new reform plan 新しい改革案の大枠 動詞 ～s ; ～ted ; ～ting 他動詞 ｟英 くだけて ｠〈人 〉に頭突きする ; 〈人 〉に出会い頭にぶつかる , …と鉢合わせする .自動詞 木の実を拾う .～́ p ì ck ナットピック 〘殻から木の実を取り出す器具 〙.