nut
noun
1. usually large hard-shelled seed
Definition categories: plant, seed
2. Egyptian goddess of the sky
Definition categories: person
3. a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt
Definition categories: man–made, block
4. half the width of an em
Similar word(s): en
Definition categories: quantity
5. a whimsically eccentric person
Similar word(s): crackpot, crank, fruitcake, screwball
Definition categories: person, eccentric, flake, geek, oddball
6. someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction
- a car nut
Similar word(s): addict, freak, junkie, junky
Definition categories: person, enthusiast, partisan, partizan
7. one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
Similar word(s): ball, ballock, egg, orchis, testicle, testis
Definition categories: body, gonad
Sentences with nut as a noun:
- There are many sort of nuts - peanuts, cashews, pistachios, Brazil nuts and more.
- He was driving his car like a nut.
- a fashion nut
- a gun nut
- a sailing nut
- a nut hand; a nut flush