What's the difference between nut and pecan?

Nut


Definition:

  • (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.

Pecan


Definition:

  • (n.) A species of hickory (Carya olivaeformis), growing in North America, chiefly in the Mississippi valley and in Texas, where it is one of the largest of forest trees; also, its fruit, a smooth, oblong nut, an inch or an inch and a half long, with a thin shell and well-flavored meat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As used commercially, PO has little effect on internal bacteria and fungi in pecan halves.
  • (2) We have evaluated the radioallergosorbent test (RAST) for the in vitro measurement of the specific IgE antibodies to nuts, including Brazil nut, almond, walnut, pecan, cashew, and the legume, peanut.
  • (3) Twenty-five table-ready foods from the Food and Drug Administration's Total Diet Study that were analyzed by this method exhibited levels up to 70 ppb (pecans).
  • (4) Examinations of inoculated inshell pecans stored at -18, -7, 5, and 21 C for up to 32 weeks revealed that the extent of survival was inversely correlated to the storage temperature.
  • (5) Garnish the squares with the whipped cream and pecans, if you like.
  • (6) Lined up alongside green, paper-skinned pistachios or buttery pecans, almonds – anaemic, lozenge-shaped, creamily bland – can seem rather dull.
  • (7) Serum was positive for specific IgE antibody measured by solid-phase radioimmunoassay to pecans.
  • (8) Of 120 isolates of the Aspergillus flavus group from pecans used in bakery products, 85 were shown to produce aflatoxin on yeast extract sucrose medium.
  • (9) You suddenly find yourself with just 182,334 useful hours in your life for reading, watching films and baking your signature Loganberry Pecan Flapjacks.
  • (10) One hundred and forty-eight isolates of Aspergillus flavus and A. parasiticus were isolated from 5,608 pecans obtained from Chicago and Georgia markets.
  • (11) Thermal treatments normally carried out during the processing of pecans are inadequate to consistently destroy salmonellae in highly contaminated inshell nuts.
  • (12) • 525 South Central Avenue, theducephx.com Little Miss BBQ In a grungy, off-the-radar neighbourhood near the airport, Little Miss BBQ dishes out Texas-style meats, slow-smoked over white oak and pecan woods.
  • (13) Nutmeats from whole uncracked pecans that were soaked for 24 h in a lactose broth solution containing E. coli did not become contaminated.
  • (14) They are selling CDs, DVDs, popcorn balls, candy apples, peanuts, and some southern specialties, such as cracklin’ (fried pork fat), pecan candy and teacakes.
  • (15) Chocolate and pecan tart (above) The rich fruitiness (and extra vitamins) provided by the avocados, dates and coconut oil here add hidden depth to this chocolate tart.
  • (16) S. senftenberg 775W and S. anatum were not detectable on inshell nuts after 16 weeks of storage at 21 C. Little decrease in viable population of the three species was noted on inoculated pecan halves stored at -18, -7, and 5 C for 32 weeks.
  • (17) Tests of surface washings of commercially treated pecans showed a reduction of 96% in coliform bacteria following PO treatment.
  • (18) As part of a program to identify as many as possible of the components of the pecan weevil, Curculio caryae (Horn), the hydrocarbons from males, females, and larvae were isolated by solvent extraction and column chromatography and subjected to gas lipuid chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis.
  • (19) The percentage of internal contamination by these species was 7.3% in the Chicago market pecans and 1.7% in those from markets in Georgia.
  • (20) A biologically active metabolite was found in crude extracts of an unidentified species of Phomopsis isolated from weevil-damaged pecans.

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