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English noun: nut | |||
| 1. | nut (plant) usually large hard-shelled seed | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | seed | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | cedar nut, cembra nut, cola nut, edible nut, kola nut, mast, nutlet, palm kernel, palm nut | ||
| 2. | Nut (person) Egyptian goddess of the sky | ||
| Instance hypernym | Egyptian deity | ||
| 3. | nut (artifact) a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | block | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | butterfly nut, hex nut, locknut, packing nut, safety nut, square nut, stuffing nut, thumbnut, wing nut, wing screw, wing-nut | ||
| Part meronym | nut and bolt | ||
| 4. | nut (quantity) half the width of an em | ||
| Synonyms | en | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | linear measure, linear unit | ||
| Part meronym | em, pica, pica em | ||
| 5. | nut (person) a whimsically eccentric person | ||
| Synonyms | crackpot, crank, fruitcake, nut case, screwball | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | eccentric, eccentric person, flake, geek, oddball | ||
| 6. | nut (person) someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction | ||
| Samples | A golf addict. A car nut. A bodybuilding freak. A news junkie. | ||
| Synonyms | addict, freak, junkie, junky | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | enthusiast, partisan, partizan | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | gym rat | ||
| 7. | nut (body) one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens | ||
| Samples | She kicked him in the balls and got away. | ||
| Synonyms | ball, ballock, bollock, egg, orchis, testicle, testis | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | gonad, male reproductive gland, sex gland | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | cobblers, undescended testicle, undescended testis | ||
| Part holonym | arteria testicularis, ductus deferens, epididymis, internal spermatic artery, rete testis, seminiferous tubule, spermatic cord, testicular artery, testicular vein, vas deferens, vena testicularis | ||
| Part meronym | family jewels, male genital organ, male genitalia, male genitals, male reproductive system | ||
English verb: nut | |||
| 1. | nut (contact) gather nuts | ||
| Examples | In the summer they like to go out and nut | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s. Somebody ----s PP | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | collect, garner, gather, pull together | ||
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