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# nutshell

«nutshell» in Mova's school dictionary: **The hard outer shell of a nut** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a nutshell, nutshells)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The hard outer shell of a nut. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nutshell/#m1)

2) «In a nutshell» means in very few words, said briefly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nutshell/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

The idiom is common in school: «in a nutshell, plants need light, water and air». It helps sum up.

### examples

- The squirrel cracked the nutshell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nutshell/#x1)
- In a nutshell, we lost because we were slow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nutshell/#x2)
- The walnut's nutshell is hard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nutshell/#x3)
- In a nutshell, the mean is the total divided by how many numbers there are. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nutshell/#x4)
- Explain your story in a nutshell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nutshell/#x5)
- The nutshells lay all over the floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nutshell/#x6)

### note

Plural: nutshells. «In a nutshell» is fixed.

### Trees and pragmatics

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