Nuc vs Soc - What's the difference?
nuc | soc |
(beekeeping) A nucleus colony; a small bee colony created from a larger colony.
* 1998 , Sue Hubbell, A Book of Bees: And How to Keep Them (page 110)
(slang, uncountable) Sociology or social science
(slang, countable) upper class youth
* 1967 , , The Outsiders , page 2:
(UK, legal, obsolete) The lord's power or privilege of holding a court in a district, as in manor or lordship; jurisdiction of causes, and the limits of that jurisdiction.
(UK, obsolete) Liberty or privilege of tenants excused from customary burdens.
(UK, obsolete) An exclusive privilege formerly claimed by millers of grinding all the corn used within the manor or township in which the mill stands.
As an initialism nuc
is (aviation|travel|fare construction) neutral unit of construction.As a noun soc is
.nuc
English
Noun
(en noun)- I have to take brood from established hives to set up nucs , as I did the previous week
Anagrams
* ----soc
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- We get jumped by the Socs . I'm not sure how you spell it, but it's the abbreviation for the Socials, the jet set, the West-side rich kids.
