(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The tumbler of a gunlock.
(n.) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
(v. i.) To gather nuts.
Example Sentences:
(1) The prevalence of kola nut chewing and the effects attributed to it are briefly reviewed.
(2) It also hydrolyzes (Man)2-GlcNAc from the urine of an alpha-mannosidosis patient, 1,4-D-mannobiose and mannotriose isolated from ivory nut mannan, 4-O-beta-D-mannopyranosyl-L-rhamnose, 6-O-beta-D-mannopyranosyl-D-galactose and 4-O-beta-D-mannopyranosyl-N-acetylglucosamine.
(3) But she noticed Mohamed getting smaller and sicker, until she eventually brought him to the centre, where the nuns give him F-75 – an enriched formula adapted for malnourished children, fortified porridge, plumpy nut, and soup with meat and fish.
(4) Boric acid, propionic acid and potassium metabisulphite were used for the control of aflatoxin B1 on betel nuts.
(5) Increased slippage torques of approximately 100 per cent were noted in all interfaces at low values of tightening torque (6 and 8 N m) of the wing-nut clamp and improvements of not less than 50 per cent were obtained at higher tightening torques (10 and 12 N m) on the wing-nut clamp.
(6) The effects of addition of ethanol to diets containing rapeseed or ground nut oil on the metabolic conversions of 14 14C erucic and 9-10 3H oleic acid were studied in the rat liver.
(7) Twenty-three fruits, 33 vegetables, 41 grain products, 7 legumes, 4 nuts, and 9 miscellaneous foods were analyzed by an accurate chemical method to determine their dietary fiber content and composition.
(8) Woodcock said: “The way [Miliband] was trying to appeal to people … was nuts.
(9) Electrophoresis of the piñon nut extract demonstrated 30 bands, three of which (in the 66 to 68,000 dalton range) bound IgE in the patient's serum in an immunoblot.
(10) Nuts, tomatoes, milk, eggs and cereals were most frequently involved.
(11) Powdered slaked lime applied to the chewed Areca nut with Piper betle inflorescence at the corner of the mouth causes the mean pH to rise to 10, at which reactive oxygen species are generated from betel quid ingredients in vitro.
(12) So should we indulge our nut cravings or will that just add inches to the waist?
(13) Peter Spence (@Pete_Spence) Haldane, Goodhart, and more on "Is this nuts?"
(14) Because there is no known nut site cis to 'trpA, we suggest that the 'trpA segment itself fortuitously contains a nut sequence that is able to function with excess N of any of the types tested and with either NusAEc or NusASal.
(15) Onto one of the harder nuts to crack this season is best foreign film .
(16) My mum thought it was a bad idea, because the chefs were nuts, always drunk.
(17) In the Russian gallery, for example, the courageous Vadim Zakharov presents a pointed version of the Danaë myth in which an insouciant dictator (of whom it is hard not to think: Putin) sits on a high beam on a saddle, shelling nuts all day while gold coins rain down from a vast shower-head only to be hoisted in buckets by faceless thuggish men in suits.
(18) Toxicological study was carried out in rats with chloroform-soluble fraction of the nuts of Semecarpus anacardium to determine its safe non-toxic dose.
(19) The specificity and cross-reactivity of IgE antibodies to different nut antigens was investigated by RAST inhibition with serums from 5 patients having high levels of IgE antibody.
(20) Fresh fruit and vegetable sales rose by about 5% while fish, poultry and nuts saw similar growth.
Nutshell
Definition:
(n.) The shell or hard external covering in which the kernel of a nut is inclosed.
(n.) Hence, a thing of little compass, or of little value.
(n.) A shell of the genus Nucula.
Example Sentences:
(1) That in a nutshell is the comparative advantage that OpenStreetMap claims over other online maps.
(2) Thus, the same tribunal that regularly consigns ordinary, powerless Americans to prison for decades for even trivial offenses yet again acts to protect the most powerful actors from any consequences for serious crimes: that is the US justice system in a nutshell.
(3) In a nutshell: Sandcastle settlements Poland – Impossible Objects Gothic fantasies ... the Poland pavilion.
(4) Distance 1 mile (1.6km) Classification Gentle stroll Duration 1 hour 45 minutes Begins Salcombe Hill car park OS grid reference SY197889 Walk in a nutshell A mostly flat circuit around the summit of Salcombe Hill, which offers impressive views over the town of Sidmouth and, on a good day, as far as Portland Bill in Dorset.
(5) But when a BBC interviewer yesterday described plans to overhaul the citizenship rules with these words, the immigration minister Phil Woolas signalled she had put it in a nutshell .
(6) And that, in a nutshell, is how Galloway managed to score what he called "the most sensational result in British electoral history" last Thursday.
(7) And that, in a nutshell, is Malaga's season; a brief portrait of why Pellegrini might want to walk away and why Txiki Begiristain, City's director of football, may want to have him succeed Mancini.
(8) Distance 6 miles (9.7km) Classification Moderate Duration 3 hours Begins Bathwick Hill OS grid reference ST765640 Walk in a nutshell A moderately long but well-marked circular walk with fabulous views of Bath.
(9) Mr Justice Lewison ruled : "In my judgement, the reference [in the House of Lords Act 1999] to a 'member of the House of Lords' is simply a reference to the right to sit and vote in that house … In a nutshell, membership of the House of Lords means the right to sit and vote in that house."
(10) In a nutshell: Right now, it looks like PS4 is the most powerful console, but developers may well learn to exploit the Xbox One in new ways.
(11) Distance 5 miles (8km) Classification Moderate Duration 2 hours 30 minutes Begins Holyrood Park car park OS grid reference NT271737 Walk in a nutshell The climb on to Arthur's Seat may be steep, but an excellent path on to the compact, rocky summit (and a panorama par excellence) makes the ascent easier.
(12) Corbyn has proposed two alternatives to the UK’s current policy of austerity: a national investment bank, to be capitalised by cancelling private-sector tax relief and subsidies; and what he calls “people’s quantitative easing” – in a nutshell, an infrastructure programme that the government finances by borrowing money from the Bank of England .
(13) In a nutshell, Real Labour would see through the politics of fear that now dominates British politics and international discourse alike.
(14) Distance 0.5 miles (0.8km) Classification Gentle stroll Duration 1 hour 30 minutes Begins National Trust car park OS grid reference TL565706 Walk in a nutshell A flat, linear walk through one of Europe's most important wetlands.
(15) In a nutshell: Electric-pastoral-psycho-brutalism Japan – In the Real World Bold experimentation .... the Japan pavilion.
(16) "Its policy objective, described in the organisation's own words 'in a nutshell', is 'to control the number of non-EU migrants who are given the right to settle permanently in the United Kingdom'."
(17) Distance 4 miles (6.4km) Classification Easy Duration 2 hours Begins Beningbrough car park OS grid reference SE517586 Walk in a nutshell A civilised stroll on well-surfaced paths around the estate of a large Georgian mansion, which boasts one of England's finest baroque interiors and an exceptional collection of 18th‑century portraits.
(18) That was it really as far as the club was concerned.” Garlick, who also told the fans’ group that the 22-year-old had conducted his own negotiations with the board during the process, rather than use an agent, added: “In a nutshell, that’s it.
(19) The award-winning author made the remarks during a visit to Barcelona at the end of last week to promote his latest novel, Nutshell.
(20) That, in a nutshell, appears to be Facebook's approach to popular messaging app Snapchat .