Zealot vs Nut - What's the difference?
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One who is zealous, one who is full of zeal for his own specific beliefs or objectives, usually in the negative sense of being too passionate; a fanatic
(historical) A member of a radical, warlike, ardently patriotic group of Jews in Judea, particularly prominent in the first century, who advocated the violent overthrow of Roman rule and vigorously resisted the efforts of the Romans and their supporters to convert the Jews.
(historical) A member of an anti-aristocratic political group in Thessalonica from 1342 until 1350.
A hard-shelled seed.
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]
(slang) A crazy person.
(slang) The head.
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(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:
(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:
(vulgar, slang, rarely used in the singular) A testicle.
(vulgar, slang) Semen, ejaculate.
An extreme enthusiast.
(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
(poker, only in attributive use) Relating to the , the best possible hand on a given board.
The tumbler of a gunlock.
(nautical) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
(UK, transitive, slang) To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.
* 1999 , Nik Cohn, Yes we have no: adventures in the other England
(slang) To ejaculate (semen ).
Zealot is a related term of nut.
As nouns the difference between zealot and nut
is that zealot is one who is zealous, one who is full of zeal for his own specific beliefs or objectives, usually in the negative sense of being too passionate; a fanatic while nut is knot.zealot
English
(wikipedia zealot)Noun
(en noun)Quotations
* 1733': For modes of faith, let graceless '''zealots fight; / His can't be wrong whose life is in the right — Alexander Pope, ''Essay on Man, Epistle III * 1892': Yet Brahmans rule Benares still, / Buddh-Gaya's ruins pit the hill, / And beef-fed '''zealots threaten ill / To Buddha and Kamakura. — Rudyard Kipling, ''Buddha at KamakuraSynonyms
* enthusiast * fanaticAnagrams
*nut
English
(wikipedia nut)Noun
(en noun)- There are many sort of nuts - peanuts, cashews, pistachios, Brazil nuts and more.
- 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.
- He was driving his car like a nut .
- My attorney was waiting in a bar around the corner. “This won't make the nut ,” he said, “unless we have unlimited credit.”
- ‘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 [...].
- I kicked him in the nuts .
- a fashion nut
- a gun nut
- a sailing nut
- When placing nuts', always look for constrictions within the crack, behind which the ' nut can be wedged.
- a nut''' hand; a '''nut flush
- (Knight)
Synonyms
* (insane person) loony, nutbag, nutcase, nutter * (the head) bonce, noodle (see further synonyms under head) * (a testicle) ball, bollock (taboo slang), nadsDerived 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 * walnutVerb
(nutt)- 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...