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# nuts

«nuts» in Mova's school 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nuts/#m1)

2) Nuts are small metal pieces with a hole in the middle that screw onto bolts to hold things together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nuts/#m2)

3) Nuts (informal) means crazy or silly: That idea is nuts! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nuts/#m3)

4) Nuts about something (informal) means liking it very much: nuts about football. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nuts/#m4)

### 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

- Squirrels hide nuts for the winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nuts/#x1)
- Our school is nut-free because of allergies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nuts/#x2)
- She is allergic to nuts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nuts/#x3)
- Tighten the nuts on the bike wheel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nuts/#x4)
- Almonds and hazelnuts are nuts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nuts/#x5)
- He is nuts about dinosaurs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nuts/#x6)
- The crowd went nuts when we scored. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nuts/#x7)
- Crack the nuts with a nutcracker. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nuts/#x8)
- These wishing nuts, after all, had proved true fortune-tellers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nuts/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/84-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees/7/)
- [Real squirrels bury nuts and forget many of them, so the nuts grow into new trees.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/131-ice-age-sabre-tooths-ground-sloths-and-scrat/11/)
- [Squirrels are rodents whose front teeth grow all the time, about fifteen centimetres a year, and gnawing hard nuts wears them down.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/215-foxes-and-squirrels/15/)
- [Some crows in Japan drop nuts at pedestrian crossings for cars to crack and pick them up safely when the lights stop the traffic.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/233-animal-minds-clever-crows-ravens-jays-and-parrots/5/)
- [Macadamia nuts can make dogs weak, wobbly and sick for a day or two, and nobody knows exactly why.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/331-foods-that-are-dangerous-for-pets-chocolate-grapes-onions-and-lilies/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «nuts» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nuts/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.