🇬🇧 Nut meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A nut is a small, usually hexagon-shaped piece of metal with a hole in the middle that has spiral lines inside. You twist the nut onto a matching bolt, like putting a lid on a bottle. When the nut is turned tight on the bolt, it helps hold pieces of wood or metal together so they don’t fall apart.

I tightened the nut on my skateboard so much that the wheels retired from spinning forever.

Our bookshelf is held together by four bolts and one heroic nut that squeaks every time you tighten it.

Without the nut, the wheel fell off my scooter, and I invented a new sport called “crash-running.”

The engineer said one missing nut could stop a whole machine, so now I treat every nut like a superstar.

Nuts and bolts work together using little spiral grooves called threads, which are like tiny metal slides that let the nut twist on and hold everything tight.

On the porch, Sam tightened a bolt but a small nut slipped and rolled off the board. He chased the nut under the pot, held the bolt steady, then found the nut and twisted it onto the bolt. Another loose nut rattled; he tightened each nut, laughed, and set the birdhouse straight with a happy, clinking finish.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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