Nut.
Pronunciation: 'n&t
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English nute, note, from Old English hnutu; akin to Old High German nuz nut and perhaps to Latin nux nut
1 a (1) : a hard-shelled dry fruit or seed with a separable rind or shell and interior kernel (2) : the kernel of a nut b : a dry indehiscent one-seeded fruit with a woody pericarp
2 a : a hard problem or undertaking b : CORE, HEART
3 : a perforated block usually of metal that has an internal screw thread and is used on a bolt or screw for tightening or holding something
4 : the ridge in a stringed instrument (as a violin) over which the strings pass on the upper end of the fingerboard
5 : a small lump (as of butter)
6 a : a foolish, eccentric, or crazy person b : ENTHUSIAST <a movie nut>
7 plural : NONSENSE -- often used interjectionally
8 slang : a person's head
9 usually vulgar : TESTIS
10 : the amount of money that must be earned in order to break even
11: Half the width of an em, an en.
12: One of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens; "she kicked him in the nuts and got away".
13. A male sexual orgasm.
Nut.
Intransitive verb
Inflected Form(s): nut”¤ted; nut”¤ting
: to gather or seek nuts
Nut. In Egyptian religion, a goddess of the sky.
She represented the vault of the heavens and was often depicted as a woman arched over the earth god Geb. Nut was believed to swallow the sun in the evening and to give birth to it again in the morning. She was sometimes portrayed as a cow, the form she took to carry the sun god, Re, on her back to the sky. On five days preceding the New Year, Nut gave birth successively to the deities Osiris, Horus, Seth, Isis, and Nephthys.
Nut hand
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The nut hand, or just the nuts, is the strongest hand possible in any particular situation. The term applies mostly to Community card games to mean the individual holding that makes the strongest hand possible with the given board of community cards. By extension, the term is used more loosely to refer to any very strong hand.
For example in Texas hold'em, if the board is 5¢¼ 6¢¼ A¢Ą 9¢¼ 5¢¾, a player holding 7¢¼ 8¢¼ has the nuts (an 9-high straight flush in spades), and cannot lose. Sometimes it is useful to know that your hand is the second or third best possible. On this same board, the hand 5¢Ą 5♦ would be the second-nut hand, four fives; and the third-nut hand would be any pair of the remaining three aces, making a full house A-A-A-5-5.
In High-low split games one often speaks of "nut low" and "nut high" hands separately. With an Omaha board identical to the one above, any hand with 2-3 makes the nut low 6-5-3-2-A, while 2-4 is the second-nut low (the nut high hands remain the same).
Finally, one also hears terms such as "nut flush" or "nut full house" to mean the highest hand possible in that particular category under the circumstances, even though that may not be strictly the nut hand. For example, a pair of aces with the above board could be called the "nut full house", even though there are two higher (but very unlikely) hands possible.
Usage Frequency: Nut
"Nut" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.45% of the time. "Nut" is used about 645 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of Speech Percent Usage per
100 Million Words Rank in English
Noun (singular) 98.45% 635 10,242
Lexical Verb (infinitive) 1.39% 9 117,287
Lexical Verb (base form) 0.15% 1 339,140
Total 100.00% 645 N/A
Expressions using "nut": a hard nut to crack ♦ acajou nut ♦ acorn nut ♦ apple nut ♦ areca nut ♦ babassu nut ♦ back nut ♦ Becuiba nut ♦ beech nut ♦ Ben nut ♦ betel nut ♦ black nut ♦ Bladder nut ♦ blind nut ♦ Bolt and nut ♦ bolt nut ♦ bolt with nut ♦ bonduc nut ♦ brazil nut ♦ Buffalo nut ♦ butter nut ♦ butterfly nut ♦ Candle nut ♦ cashew nut ♦ castellated nut ♦ castle nut ♦ cedar nut ♦ cembra nut ♦ cembra nut tree ♦ Check nut ♦ Chile nut ♦ chilean nut ♦ Chocolate nut ♦ coco nut ♦ cocoa nut ♦ cocoa nut milk ♦ cocoa nut oil ♦ cohune nut ♦ cola nut ♦ Constantinople nut ♦ Coquilla nut ♦ coumara nut ♦ counter nut ♦ cover nut ♦ crack a nut ♦ Cream nut ♦ dika nut ♦ do one's nut ♦ dome nut ♦ edible nut ♦ elk nut ♦ employ a steam engine to crack a nut ♦ european nut pine ♦ Finger nut ♦ flush nut ♦ Fly nut ♦ gall nut ♦ ginger nut ♦ goora nut ♦ ground nut ♦ grugru nut ♦ hard nut ♦ hard nut to crack ♦ hazel nut ♦ hazel nut tree ♦ health nut ♦ hex nut ♦ hexagon castle nut ♦ hexagon nut ♦ hexagon slotted nut ♦ hexagonal die nut ♦ hexagonal nut ♦ hiccough nut ♦ hiccup nut ♦ hickory nut ♦ ivory nut ♦ Jam nut ♦ Jesuits' nut ♦ king nut ♦ king nut hickory ♦ knurled nut ♦ kola nut ♦ kola nut tree ♦ litchi nut ♦ Lock nut ♦ Lug nut ♦ macadamia nut ♦ macadamia nut tree ♦ Madeira nut ♦ Malabar nut ♦ Marking nut ♦ mexican nut pine ♦ milled nut ♦ mocker nut ♦ monkey nut ♦ native of some of the Pacific islands It is used by the natives as a candle the nut kernels being strung together The oil from the nut ♦ neckar nut ♦ Nickar nut ♦ nicker nut ♦ nut and bolt ♦ nut bar.
Hyphenated Usage
Beginning with "nut": nut-and-bolt, nut-bearing, nut-brown, nut-brown-haired, nut-bushes, nut-butter, nut-cake, nut-case, nut-cases, nut-chewing, nut-cracker, nut-crackers, nut-cracking, nut-eater, nut-flavoured, nut-gall, nut-hoards, nut-hook, nut-house, nut-jobber, nut-leaved screw tree, nut-like, nut-milk, nut-pine, nut-sellers, nut-shell, nut-tree, nut-trees, nut-wood.
Ending with "nut": ball-nut, basin-nut, beach-nut, behind-nut, bending-behind-the-nut, candle-nut, cap-nut, check-nut, cob-nut, do-nut, earth-nut, fruit-and-nut, ginger-nut, ground-nut, ground-nut, hard-nut, kerr-nut, lock-nut, monkey-nut, oak-nut, oil-nut, opera-nut, pea-nut, safety-nut, schwarzschild-nut, screw-nut, shank-to-nut, sports-nut, Taqua-nut, taub-nut, T-nut, tough-nut, wing-nut.
Containing "nut": betel-nut-rouged, brazil-nut tree, cohune-nut oil, coula-nut-cracking, date-nut bread, earth-nut pea, ivory-nut palm, raisin-nut cookie.
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