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nut noun

  /nʊt/ , /nʌt/ , [nɐt]
  • (hardware) A piece of hardware, typically metal and typically hexagonal or square in shape, with a hole through it having internal screw threads, intended to be screwed onto a threaded bolt or other threaded shaft.
  • (climbing) A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts [sense #2] were used for this purpose.)
 Mutter, Schraubenmutter
  • (food, broadly) Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
 Nuss, Nussfrucht
  • (musical instruments, lutherie) On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.
 Birne, Dötz, Obersattel, Rübe, Sattel
  • (vulgar, slang, chiefly plural) A testicle.
 Ei, Nuss
  • (typography, _, slang) En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
 Halbgeviert
  • (slang) A crazy person.
 Irre, Irrer, Spinner

nuts adjective

  /nʌts/
  • (colloquial) Insane, mad.
 irre, verrückt
  • (colloquial, figuratively) Crazy, mad; unusually pleased or, alternatively, angered.
 scharf, verrückt, wild
  • (colloquial) Very fond of (on) someone.
 verrückt
kola nut
Kolanuss
pine nut
Pinienkern
macadamia nut
Macadamianuss
wing nut
Flügelmutter
use a sledgehammer to crack a nut
mit Kanonen auf Spatzen schießen
even a blind squirrel can find a nut once in a while
auch ein blindes Huhn findet mal ein Korn
lug nut
Radmutter
gall-nut ink
Eisengallustinte, Gallustinte
nut job
dumm

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Nut noun {f}

Nut, Nuten   /nuːt/
  • Technik:
 groove

nuten verb

nute, nutete, habe genutet   /ˈnuːtn̩/
  • eine Nut machen
 rabbet
Nut und Feder
tongue and groove
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