nut
/nʌt/noun, verb1 syllable
Nut means: one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens.
Synonyms for nut21
noun, as in one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
noun, as in a whimsically eccentric person
noun, as in someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction
noun, as in half the width of an em
also used for nut
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What does nut mean?8
noun
one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens“she kicked him in the balls and got away”
a whimsically eccentric person
someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction“a golf addict”
half the width of an em
Egyptian goddess of the sky
usually large hard-shelled seed
a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt
verb
gather nuts
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What rhymes with nut?13
Nut in a sentence
- He that will eat the kernel, must crack the nut.carlosalberto
- Before you screw on the nut, put a washer on it.wallebot
- Nuts are round, but not everything that's round is a nut.sundown
- The nut is round, but not everything round is a nut.Adelpa
- I couldn't unscrew that rusty nut, not even with a lot of hammering.Rezzoc91
- Isn't that like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut?sundown
- Eliminating the deficit will be a hard nut to crack.unknown
- We need a nut that will fit that bolt.fcbond
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Forms of nut
as a noun
- plural
- nuts
as a verb
- past tense
- nutted
- present participle
- nutting
- third-person singular
- nuts
- past participle
- nutted