I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
betel nut
ginger nut
monkey nut
nut job
pine nut
wing nut
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
betel
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One old woman chewed betel nut and nodded weakly as the bullets boiled in.
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He picked up a thick pair of cutting shears and trimmed a betel nut .
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The betel nut lay in slices on a white dish.
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The incident is passed on so that, over time, the betel nut becomes a symbol of eternal regeneration and devotion.
hard
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Back, now, to the hard nuts .
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One glance was all it took to realise this was one hard nut to crack - his features still completely impassive.
tough
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If he did I must have been asleep. 14 unbeaten with 9 wins. Tough nut again on Saturday at Norwich.
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Already highly successful in popular music, dance and commercial television, blacks have found the movies a tougher nut to crack.
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Opposite: To crack the much tougher panda nuts , a large rock hammer is essential.
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Beverley was a tougher nut to crack.
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West Ham will be a tough nut to crack especially with big Lee in good form at the moment.
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Shearer, a tough nut not inclined to whinge, said his ankle was like a pudding.
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Tax will be an even tougher nut .
■ NOUN
pine
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Pour garlic sauce over hot chicken pieces and sprinkle with toasted pine nuts and sultanas.
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At one point she instructed the courtroom on how to cook pine nuts .
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Sprinkle each with the pine nuts .
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Preheat oven to 325 F.. Toast pine nuts in preheated oven until they are lightly golden, about 8 minutes.
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In a small bowl, mix together pine nuts , parsley, and lemon zest.
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Sprinkle pine nut mixture over and serve immediately.
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Add pine nuts and sauce and bring to a gentle boil.
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Remove from oven and sprinkle fete cheese and herb and pine nut garnishes over top.
■ VERB
crack
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The pragmatist knows it better than the idealist. 97 excess A sledge-hammer to crack a nut .
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There are two ways to crack this nut .
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Talk about using a sledge-hammer to crack a nut !
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The principle of proportionality - do not use a sledgehammer to crack a nut - is straight forward logic.
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For calculational purposes the Feynman approach is an unwieldy steam-hammer only capable of cracking some particularly brittle nuts .
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But at other times they seem like sledgehammers to crack nuts .
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We had been sitting there since early that morning, cracking the nuts , picking out the flesh with needles.
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As a result, they act in the manner of the proverbial sledge-hammer to crack a nut .
drive
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It will end up driving you nuts otherwise.
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It is going to drive ISPs nuts unless they change their pricing, though.
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Ram's star trip is driving everyone fuckin' nuts .
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He sat in the front of the class and talked without stopping, driving the other students nuts .
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He had driven his parents nuts , wildly, almost suicidally trying to forge an identity.
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And it will really drive civilized people nuts if Phillips starts raking in extra dough by posing in commercials for sports products.
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She uses rags instead of toilet paper, which drives my father nuts .
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And that it was my parents' ambivalence, as much as anything, that had driven us all nuts .
eat
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She eats another nut , and needlessly, absently, combs her hair.
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It wasn't that I was tempted to eat those convenient nuts , just the very fact of their existence.
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She eats a pistachio nut , and fastens her locket.
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Brown Men only eat nuts , berries and apples, and use their bows and arrows to chase hunters away from innocent game.
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He who eats the nut must first crack the shell Jeremy Cherfas Walnuts come in hard and convoluted shells.
go
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But a man could go nuts sitting around wondering about what might happen.
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It is going to drive ISPs nuts unless they change their pricing, though.
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He grabbed my tie and I thought he was going to nut me in the face.
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Every time Greene did something he went nuts , throwing his body around the field like a one-man Mardi Gras.
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So don't go nuts - use those leftovers in the following recipes.
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And there are numerous sweet spreads to go with fruit and nut bagels.
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Most of the walls are really light panels, so we don't go nuts from the dark.
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It was pure magic and Philadelphia fans went nuts .
tighten
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In taps, replacing the tap washer and tightening the gland nut will both contribute to stopping water hammer occurring.
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All it took was tightening a nut .
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Turn the water on slowly and tighten the nuts if there are any leaks. 6.
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He conceded, however, that the company tightened a nut in the fuse box on Saab models after 1992.
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He changed the spanner for one clearly the wrong size and tried vainly to tighten the nut again.
toast
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Time to toast a few nuts , particularly some pecans with vanilla coating.
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Preheat oven to 325 F. Toast pine nuts in preheated oven until they are lightly golden, about 8 minutes.
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Sprinkle toasted pine nuts over eggplants.
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Note: To toast pine nuts , place them in a dry nonstick skillet over medium heat.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be nuts about/over sb/sth
go nuts
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But a man could go nuts sitting around wondering about what might happen.
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Every time Greene did something he went nuts , throwing his body around the field like a one-man Mardi Gras.
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It was pure magic and Philadelphia fans went nuts .
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Most of the walls are really light panels, so we don't go nuts from the dark.
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My classmate and I thought he had gone nuts .
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So don't go nuts - use those leftovers in the following recipes.
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The fans go nuts , stomping so loudly that they drown out the announcer.
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What if this man of yours just went nuts for no reason at all?
nuts to sb/sth
vegetable/nut etc cutlet
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We begin with the nut cutlets of a vegetarian household where Harriet and Vesey meet as adolescents.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a cashew nut
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A lot of people think he's a complete nut , but he's actually quite harmless.
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a selection of nuts
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Eleanor is such a nut .
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He started asking me a lot of questions about my personal life. I think the guy's some kind of nut .
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Hurry up, I'm freezing my nuts off out here.
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The woman sounds like a real nut .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Add nut mixture and spread evenly.
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Also, the D-32's nut has a nasty sharp corner on the treble side.
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Fakhru rubbed one smooth slice with his thumb and then placed the spotted nut slice on his protruding tongue.
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His winning concoction was Macadamia Fudge Torte: chocolate cake with fudge-filled cavities, topped by macadamia nut streusel.
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In other words it has more to do with an ambitious political undertaking than with institutional nuts and bolts.
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It lasts from nuts to soup.
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They put him in with the nut cases.
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They would sip sherry or port, nibble at the nuts and raisins and allow themselves to wallow in the warm softness.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bradshaw rather unwisely greeted McLean's arrival in the ring by nutting him.