Nut
- proper noun
- Literature
- One of the recommendations was to upgrade the Nut and Deer Island facilities to secondary treatment by the year 2000.
- sky goddess Nut
- Nut, the sky goddess
Examples
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The Deer Island facility, like the one on Nut Island, was poorly maintained from the start.
Academic text (1992) -
What does Meg Nut have to do with this?
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- Ra, Mut, Nut, Ptah.
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Acknowledgment: The authors would like to express their gratitude to Nik Lailatul Nut Aziz for her help in collecting and managing the data.
Academic text (1995) -
In ancient Egypt, the worshippers prayed to Nut, the goddess of the sky.
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The ancient texts often reference Nut as the mother of the stars and the cosmos.
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Nut, the goddess personifying the sky, was often depicted as a woman arching over the earth.
Idioms
- Offensive
To release semen during sex and used jokingly to show extreme excitement
To use much more effort or help than needed to do a small task
- Informal
To use far more force or effort than needed for a small task
Compounds
Two metal pieces, a bolt and a matching nut, that hold parts together by screwing
- Indian
A seed chewed with betel leaves and lime to make you feel more awake, often in South and Southeast Asia
A bitter brown seed from a West African tree used to help people feel more awake and flavor cola
- Specialized
A bitter brown seed from a West African tree that contains caffeine and is used to flavor drinks
A sweet moist loaf that has chopped dates and nuts, often eaten as a snack or dessert
- Indian
A seed from a palm tree chewed with betel leaves and lime in South and Southeast Asia
- Specialized
A small metal piece with six flat sides that screws onto a bolt to hold things together
A grasslike plant with small edible parts under the ground that often grows as a weed
A liquid from the nuts of a tropical tree that people use for cooking and for skin and hair
- Specialized
A small metal piece with four flat sides that fits on a bolt to hold things together
A large tree from the eastern United States that makes very big, sweet nuts
A grass-like plant with small round edible underground tubers that often grows as a weed
- Specialized
A small metal piece you tighten to press seal material and stop leaks on valves or pumps
- Specialized
A large South American evergreen tree that makes edible seeds used for cooking oil
A large nut you can eat with a hard brown shell and creamy white inside from South America
- Specialized
A shrub that attaches to hemlock roots and has small green flowers and soft fruits
- Specialized
A large nut from a palm that gives oil and has a hard shell carved like ivory
A thick cooking oil from the nuts of a cohune palm that people also use to make soap
A fragrant black seed from the tonka bean tree used like vanilla in food and perfume
- Specialized
A hard brown nut from a South American palm used for carving and instead of ivory
A plant from Europe with small edible tubers that people eat and use to add flavor
A medium-sized tree from southern Europe with a wide top that makes edible seeds like small almonds
A tropical tree that produces large brown nuts containing caffeine used to make cola drinks
A small pine tree from Mexico and southern Texas with edible seeds and short needles
- UK
A large brown nut from an African tree that contains caffeine and gives cola flavor
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word Nut is the name of an ancient Egyptian goddess whose name means 'sky', so picture her as a woman who arches over and covers the earth like a big blue roof.