What's the difference between nut and runner?

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.

Runner


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, runs; a racer.
  • (n.) A detective.
  • (n.) A messenger.
  • (n.) A smuggler.
  • (n.) One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc.
  • (n.) A slender trailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil.
  • (n.) The rotating stone of a set of millstones.
  • (n.) A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle.
  • (n.) One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.
  • (n.) A horizontal channel in a mold, through which the metal flows to the cavity formed by the pattern; also, the waste metal left in such a channel.
  • (n.) A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed.
  • (n.) The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.
  • (n.) A food fish (Elagatis pinnulatus) of Florida and the West Indies; -- called also skipjack, shoemaker, and yellowtail. The name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water.
  • (n.) Any cursorial bird.
  • (n.) A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.
  • (n.) A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In common with other studies, we found that the injury occurred in competitive runners, especially females, and was likely to develop during competitive races or intensive training sessions.
  • (2) "Runners, for instance, need a high level of running economy, which comes from skill acquisition and putting in the miles," says Scrivener, "But they could effectively ease off the long runs and reduce the overall mileage by introducing Tabata training.
  • (3) For recreational runners who have sustained injuries, especially within the past year, a reduction in running to below 32 km per week is recommended.
  • (4) In combined groups of male runners and controls, there was a highly significant positive correlation between the serum HDL-cholesterol level and the LPL activity of adipose tissue expressed per tissue weight (r = +0.72, p less than 0.001) or per whole body fat (r = +0.62, p less than 0.001).
  • (5) 50 runners with exertion induced injuries of the lower extremity were provided with appropriate running shoe insoles.
  • (6) When I had that keyhole surgery, I thought: ‘Maybe, if I come back, it won’t be to that top level.’ But with the support I have been getting from my coach, family and friends, I think that really motivated me to come back strong.” Kenya is more famed for its distance runners and steeplechasers than its hurdlers, but the country was left celebrating a surprise gold medal in the 400m hurdles when Nicholas Bett powered home from lane nine to smash his personal best to win in 47.79sec.
  • (7) Runners at the corners for Daniel Descalso who he hits a hard ground ball right to Barmes at shortstop (not second base), he steps on the bag at second to get Freese for one out, fires to first to get the second out, and that's what we call an inning ending double play...or sometimes we call it a pitchers best friend.
  • (8) The runners showed less rapid eye-movement activity during sleep than the nonrunners under both experimental conditions, indicating a strong and unexpected effect of physical fitness on this measure.
  • (9) Blade Runner: the Final Cut is re-released on 3 April
  • (10) The best advertisement for the format came four hours before the final even started, when, in ITV1's coverage of the FA Cup Final, the teenager Faryl Smith, a 2008 runner-up, sang the national anthem solo and faultlessly in front of a full crowd at Wembley.
  • (11) We tested the hypothesis that the neuroendocrine control of gonadotropin secretion is altered in certain women distance runners with secondary amenorrhea.
  • (12) Afternoon Delights doesn't have anything approaching a mission statement – it's just two middle-aged men arsing about, frankly – but its gleeful anarchism can be riotously funny: witness the pair as free runners, declaring "war against the urban environment", or their magnificently coiffed Rock'n'Rollers, with the aid of subtitles, showing off their moves on the streets of Ashford, Kent.
  • (13) To determine the prevalence of various gastrointestinal disturbances related to long-distance running and its effect on weight, diet and everyday digestive problems, we gave a questionnaire to 279 leisure-time marathon runners, comprising 10% of the participants in a local marathon race.
  • (14) Runner up: Newcastle University A project inspired by the childhood game Kerplunk is being used to slow the flow of water in order to improve water quality and reduce flood risk for a Northumberland town hit by floods in recent years.
  • (15) The middle distance runners were all highly trained, but had significantly slower performance times than the elite runners at distances greater than 3 miles.
  • (16) However, as we watch Blade Runner , Deckard doesn’t feel like a replicant; he is dour and unengaged, but lacks his victims’ detached innocence, their staccato puzzlement at their own untrained feelings.
  • (17) The athletes were mostly volley ball players, jumpers or runners.
  • (18) The runners were divided into 2 groups: group A, who competed the 160 km within 24 hours and group B, who either ran for 24 hours, or who retired before completing the distance.
  • (19) The effects of L-carnitine on respiratory chain enzymes in muscle of long distance runners were studied in 14 athletes.
  • (20) Further, previous work has, almost exclusively, examined male runners.

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