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Nut vs Mind - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between nut and mind

is that nut is a hard-shelled seed while mind is the ability for rational thought.

As verbs the difference between nut and mind

is that nut is to hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt while mind is to remember.

nut

English

(wikipedia nut)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A hard-shelled seed.
    • There are many sort of nuts - peanuts, cashews, pistachios, Brazil nuts and more.
  • A fastener: a piece of metal, usually square or hexagonal in shape, with a hole through it having machined internal threads, intended to be screwed onto a bolt or other threaded shaft.
  • * 1998 , Brian Hingley, Furniture Repair & Refinishing - Page 95[http://books.google.com/books?id=lPYWVti6GR0C&pg=PA95&dq=bolt+%22nut+into%22&hl=en&ei=FPAWTuXGOIm08QPkl5j8Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CE0Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=bolt%20%22nut%20into%22&f=false]
    • As the bolt tightens into the nut', it pulls the tenon on the side rail into the mortise in the bedpost and locks them together. There are also some European beds that reverse the bolt and '''nut''' by setting the ' nut into the bedpost with the bolt inserted into a slotted area in the side of the rail.
  • (slang) A crazy person.
    • He was driving his car like a nut .
  • (slang) The head.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter V , passage=Let the Cream get firmly in her nut the idea that Sir Roderick Glossop was not the butler, the whole butler and nothing but the butler, and disaster, as I saw it, loomed.}}
  • (US, slang) Financial term for monthly expense to keep a venture running.
  • (US, slang) The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
  • * 1971 , Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas , Harper Perennial (2005), page 11:
    • My attorney was waiting in a bar around the corner. “This won't make the nut ,” he said, “unless we have unlimited credit.”
  • (US, slang) A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.
  • (musical instruments, lutherie) On string instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.
  • En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
  • An extravagantly fashionable young man of the 1910s and 1920s.
  • * 1914 , (w), ‘The Dreamer’, Beasts and Superbeasts , Penguin 2000 (Complete Short Stories), p. 323:
    • ‘You are not going to be what they call a Nut', are you?’ she inquired with some anxiety, partly with the idea that a ' Nut would be an extravagance which her sister's small household would scarcely be justified in incurring [...].
  • (vulgar, slang, rarely used in the singular) A testicle.
    • I kicked him in the nuts .
  • (vulgar, slang) Semen, ejaculate.
  • An extreme enthusiast.
    • a fashion nut
    a gun nut
    a sailing nut
  • (climbing) A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts [sense #2] were used for this purpose.)
  • * 2005 , Tony Lourens, Guide to climbing page 88
    • When placing nuts', always look for constrictions within the crack, behind which the ' nut can be wedged.
  • (poker, only in attributive use) Relating to the , the best possible hand on a given board.
    • a nut''' hand; a '''nut flush
  • The tumbler of a gunlock.
    • (Knight)
  • (nautical) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.

    • Synonyms

    * (insane person) loony, nutbag, nutcase, nutter * (the head) bonce, noodle (see further synonyms under head) * (a testicle) ball, bollock (taboo slang), nads

    Derived terms

    * coconut * groundnut * hard nut to crack * hazelnut * monkeynut * peanut * nutbeam * nutbag * nutcase * nutter * nutcracker * nutdriver * nutmeat * nutmeg * nut roast * nutshell * off one's nut * sweet as a nut * walnut

    Verb

    (nutt)
  • (UK, transitive, slang) To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.
  • * 1999 , Nik Cohn, Yes we have no: adventures in the other England
    • One night, we were fumbling each other out by the toilets when a Rocker in full leathers came out of the Gents and, without breaking stride or saying a word, nutted me square between the eyes. I went down as though shot...
  • (slang) To ejaculate (semen ).

    • Anagrams

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    mind

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The ability for rational thought.
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  • The ability to be aware of things.
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  • The ability to remember things.
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  • The ability to focus the thoughts.
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  • Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.
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  • Judgment, opinion, or view.
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  • Desire, inclination, or intention.
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  • A healthy mental state.
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  • *:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
  • (lb) The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.
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  • *1699 , , Heads designed for an essay on conversations
  • *:Study gives strength to the mind ; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
  • *1854 , Samuel Knaggs, Unsoundness of Mind Considered in Relation to the Question of Responsibility for Criminal Acts , p.19:
  • *:The mind is that part of our being which thinks and wills, remembers and reasons; we know nothing of it except from these functions.
  • *1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
  • *:Thus they dwelled for nearly a year, and in that time Robin Hood often turned over in his mind many means of making an even score with the Sheriff.
  • *, chapter=7
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=

    Synonyms

    * (ability for rational thought) brain, head, intellect, intelligence, nous, psyche, reason, wit * (ability to be aware of things) awareness, consciousness, sentience * (ability to remember things) memory, recollection * (ability to focus the thoughts) attention, concentration, focus * (somebody that embodies certain mental qualities) genius, intellectual, thinker * judgment, judgement, idea, opinion, view * desire, disposition, idea, inclination, intention, mood * (healthy mental state) sanity * (process of ): cognition, learning

    Derived terms

    * aftermind * amind * bear in mind * be of one mind * blow someone's mind * breadth of mind * change one's mind * come to mind * foremind * give someone a piece of one's mind * have a mind like a sieve * have a mind of one's own * have in mind * hivemind * in one's right mind * Jedi mind tricks * know one's own mind * lose one's mind * make up one's mind * meeting of the minds * mind's ear * mind's eye * mind-blowing * mindboggling * mindful * mindless * month's mind * of one mind * of two minds * out of one's mind * overmind * philosophy of mind * presence of mind * put someone in mind of * read someone's mind * right-minded * spring to mind * to my mind * top of mind * undermind * year's mind

    See also

    * (wikipedia)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (now, regional) To remember.
  • * 1896 , , (A Shropshire Lad), XXXVII, lines 25-26:
    • The land where I shall mind you not / Is the land where all's forgot.
    • You should mind your own business.
  • * Addison
    • bidding him be a good child, and mind his book
  • (originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by.
    • I wouldn't mind an ice cream right now.
  • (now, chiefly, North America, Ireland) To pay attention to; to listen attentively to, to obey.
  • * 2000 , (George RR Martin), A Storm of Swords , Bantam 2011, page 84:
    • ‘Should you ever have a son, Sansa, beat him frequently so he learns to mind you.’
  • To pay attention to (something); to keep one's mind on.
  • * Shakespeare
    • My lord, you nod: you do not mind the play.
  • To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time.
    • Would you mind my bag for me?
  • (chiefly, in the imperative) To make sure, to take care ((that)).
    • Mind you don't knock that glass over.
  • To be careful about.
  • * 2005 , Gillie Bolton, Reflective Practice: Writing And Professional Development , ISBN 9781848602120, page xv:
    • Bank Underground Station, London, is built on a curve, leaving a potentially dangerous gap between platform and carriage to trap the unwary. The loudspeaker voice instructs passengers to "Mind the gap": the boundary between train and platform.
  • (obsolete) To have in mind; to intend.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I mind to tell him plainly what I think.
    (Beaconsfield)
  • (obsolete) To put in mind; to remind.
  • * Fuller
    • He minded them of the mutability of all earthly things.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I do thee wrong to mind thee of it.

    Derived terms

    * mind one's p's and q's * mind the store

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