nuts

«nuts» in Mova's judaism dictionary: hard-shelled fruits or seeds of some trees and plants… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (plural of nut: a nut, nuts); adjective (nuts, informal)

meaning for a pupil

1) Nuts are hard-shelled fruits or seeds of some trees and plants, like walnuts, hazelnuts and almonds; many can be eaten. tree →

2) Nuts are small metal pieces with a hole in the middle that screw onto bolts to hold things together. tree →

3) Nuts (informal) means crazy or silly: That idea is nuts! tree →

4) Nuts about something (informal) means liking it very much: nuts about football. tree →

sense in the lessons

In health and safety lessons: some people have a serious nut allergy, so many schools are nut-free; never share food with someone who has an allergy, and know they may carry an EpiPen. In science: squirrels bury nuts to eat in winter. In design and technology: nuts and bolts. Phrases: nut allergy, nut-free, nuts and bolts (the basic details), go nuts, nuts about.

examples

• I went down into the garden of nuts, to look at the green plants of the valley, to see whether the vine budded, and the pomegranates were in flower. (Writings SNG.6.11, JPS 1917) tree →
• Squirrels hide nuts for the winter. tree →
• Our school is nut-free because of allergies. tree →
• She is allergic to nuts. tree →
• Tighten the nuts on the bike wheel. tree →
• Almonds and hazelnuts are nuts. tree →
• He is nuts about dinosaurs. tree →
• The crowd went nuts when we scored. tree →
• Crack the nuts with a nutcracker. tree →
• These wishing nuts, after all, had proved true fortune-tellers. tree →

note

Singular: a nut. Trap: peanuts are not true nuts but legumes (like peas), and coconuts are not true nuts either, but they are still called nuts. Calling a person «nuts» is informal and can be unkind. Maths: «3 bags of 12 nuts» = 36 nuts.

In the corpora

• Wild chimpanzees make tools: they fish for termites with stripped twigs, crack nuts with stones and use leaves as sponges.
• Real squirrels bury nuts and forget many of them, so the nuts grow into new trees.
• Squirrels are rodents whose front teeth grow all the time, about fifteen centimetres a year, and gnawing hard nuts wears them down.
• Some crows in Japan drop nuts at pedestrian crossings for cars to crack and pick them up safely when the lights stop the traffic.
• Macadamia nuts can make dogs weak, wobbly and sick for a day or two, and nobody knows exactly why.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «nuts» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.