nutcracker
part of speech
noun (a nutcracker, nutcrackers; also a pair of nutcrackers)
meaning for a pupil
1) A tool for cracking the hard shells of nuts. tree →
2) A wooden doll shaped like a soldier whose jaw cracks nuts, popular at Christmas. tree →
3) «The Nutcracker»: a famous Christmas ballet with music by Tchaikovsky. tree →
4) A bird of the crow family that eats nuts and seeds. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life nutcrackers come out at Christmas with bowls of nuts. In music lessons «The Nutcracker» ballet and its «Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy» are often studied. In science, a nutcracker is a simple machine — a lever. Phrases: «a pair of nutcrackers», «The Nutcracker Suite».
examples
- Pass me the nutcracker so I can open this walnut. tree →
- We went to see «The Nutcracker» ballet at Christmas. tree →
- A wooden nutcracker soldier stood on the shelf. tree →
- A nutcracker is a type of lever. tree →
- The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy comes from «The Nutcracker». tree →
- The nutcracker bird hides seeds for winter. tree →
note
UK often says «nutcrackers» or «a pair of nutcrackers» for the tool. One word. In maths and science it is a lever with the load between the pivot and the hand.
In the corpora
- Seesaws, scissors, wheelbarrows, bottle openers, nutcrackers, tongs and even your own arm are all levers.
- A nutcracker squeezes hardest on a nut placed close to the hinge.
Trees and pragmatics
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