usually large hard-shelled seed
"After cracking open the walnut, I ate the nut inside its shell."
Egyptian goddess of the sky
"Nut is an ancient Egyptian goddess who covers the entire sky like a vast ceiling over the earth."
a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt
"The mechanic tightened the nut onto the bolt to secure the engine cover in place."
A hard-shelled seed.
"The squirrel buried an acorn nut in the ground to eat later."
To gather nuts.
"The children went into the forest to nut after acorns fell from the trees."
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"The athlete ate an apple instead of a nut before the race to avoid any allergic reaction."
Initialism of National Union of Teachers.
"In Roman mythology, Nut was the goddess who served as the personification of the sky."
The goddess who serves as the personification of the sky.
The word "nut" comes from the Old English hnutu, which traces back to a root shared by several ancient languages including Latin and Celtic. While its exact origin is debated, it may have come from a non-Indo-European language spoken in the region before Germanic tribes arrived.