(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.
Tut
Definition:
() Be still; hush; -- an exclamation used for checking or rebuking.
(n.) An imperial ensign consisting of a golden globe with a cross on it.
(n.) A hassock.
Example Sentences:
(1) He would later tut-tut about this, as an error of judgment, and as a cause of relief to him that he was outbid.
(2) This manifests itself as a bit of a grimace when a kiddie pops up in front of his gun, a tut when colleagues show a lack of concern for collateral damage. "
(3) Menogaril (TUT-7) is a novel antitumor antibiotic belonging to anthracyclines.
(4) Shorter operative time and less post-operative bleeding were found in the TUT group, which included 3 failures.
(5) The chorus of tut-tutting reached such a volume – from small-town gossip to high politics – that her friends felt duty bound to intervene.
(6) In mouse L 1210 leukemia system, antitumor activity of TUT-7 administered orally was as good as that by i.v.
(7) Nothing of it shows above ground; 20ft down is a confused, inaccessible jumble of rooms, corridors and frescoes, buried beyond the reach of the public, an enormous Tut's tomb with nothing of value in it.
(8) Their successors tut at Cameron’s talk of swarms.
(9) Fantasy fancies Recent discussion of Kristen Stewart , the actor whose mother may or may not have confirmed her bisexuality, has been accompanied by clapping and tutting – but not a lot of self-examination.
(10) routes, were better than that of adriamycin administered i.v.. TUT-7 showed antitumor activities against various mouse tumors (L 1210 leukemia, P 388 leukemia, colon 38 adenocarcinoma, B 16 melanoma), LX-1 human tumor xenografts, and Yoshida sarcoma in rat.
(11) It was like trying to get into King Tut’s Tomb, downloading five apps to access the fucking thing.” The particular structure of the film, she said – one scene in the final reel especially – had her weeping with nerves as to whether she would be able to manage such extended sequence without recourse to easy edits.
(12) The antitumor activity of TUT-7, a new anthracycline compound, was compared to that of adriamycin in the screening system with rat ascites hepatomas.
(13) In some quarters, Celebgate prompted hand-wringing and tut-tutting about contemporary mores from Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells.
(14) You know how frustrating it is when you put a cartridge in your printer, and it tuts at you about “not an approved part”, after which, printing becomes even more of a lottery than usual?
(15) If you are lucky, he might even tut at you for joining the wrong queue (it's a confusing system, OK, Mr Katsouris?
(16) TU3 was as effective as TUT-cocktail in inhibition of PHA response and CTL generation but unlike TUT spared NK effectors.
(17) Enter, tutting, Gillian Anderson , an Arctic roll in a pencil skirt.
(18) But more than anything, it's about the sense of entitlement, the presupposition that an entire page of a national newspaper should be given over to the sexual gratification of men, and we should tut and tolerate and turn the other cheek while the Sun's anti-rape campaign languishes in the women's section, as our problem.
(19) When it didn't run on time, I was shouted at, tutted at, and reminded of how much money I'd lost the company.
(20) Mascherano doesn’t laugh, but he tuts instead, shaking his head in that way players do when the possibility of Brazil exiting a World Cup is mentioned.