The difference between Loaf and Nut
When used as nouns, loaf means (also loaf of bread) a block of bread after baking, whereas nut means a hard-shelled seed.
When used as verbs, loaf means to do nothing, to be idle, whereas nut means to gather nuts.
Nut is also interjection with the meaning: no.
check bellow for the other definitions of Loaf and Nut
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Loaf as a noun:
(also loaf of bread) A block of bread after baking.
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Loaf as a noun:
Any solid block of food, such as meat or sugar.
Examples:
"rfquotek Francis Bacon"
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Loaf as a noun (Cockney rhyming slang):
Shortened from "loaf of bread", the brain or the head (mainly in the phrase use one's loaf).
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Loaf as a noun:
A solid block of soap, from which standard bars are cut.
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Loaf as a verb (intransitive):
To do nothing, to be idle.
Examples:
"loaf about'', ''loaf around''."
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Loaf as a verb:
(Cockney rhyming slang) To headbutt, (from loaf of bread)
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Nut as a noun:
A hard-shelled seed.
Examples:
"There are many sort of nuts: peanuts, cashews, pistachios, Brazil nuts and more."
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Nut as a noun:
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.
Examples:
"hypernyms fastener"
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Nut as a noun (slang):
A crazy person.
Examples:
"synonyms: loony nutbag nutcase nutter → [[Thesaurus:mad person Thes:mad person]]"
"He was driving his car like a nut."
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Nut as a noun (slang):
The head.
Examples:
"synonyms: bonce noodle"
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Nut as a noun (US, slang):
Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
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Nut as a noun (US, slang):
The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
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Nut as a noun (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.
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Nut as a noun (musical instruments, lutherie):
On stringed 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.
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Nut as a noun (typography, _, slang):
En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
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Nut as a noun (dated, UK, slang):
An extravagantly fashionable young man.
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Nut as a noun (vulgar, slang, chiefly plural):
A testicle.
Examples:
"synonyms: balbollock q2=taboo slang nads"
"I kicked him in the nuts."
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Nut as a noun (vulgar, slang, uncountable):
Semen, ejaculate.
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Nut as a noun (vulgar, slang, countable):
Orgasm , ejaculation, release of semen
Examples:
"He just needs a good nut to make him feel better."
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Nut as a noun (colloquial):
An extreme enthusiast.
Examples:
"a fashion nut'"
"a gun nut'"
"a sailing nut'"
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Nut as a noun (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.)
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Nut as a noun (poker, only in [[attributive]] use):
The best possible hand of a certain type, especially: "nut flush" and "nut straight". Compare .
Examples:
"If you have two cards of spades in your hand, one being the ace, and the table has any three or more cards of spades, congratulations, you have the nut flush! A full house could still beat you, though."
"'nut straight"
"a nut hand"
"a nut flush"
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Nut as a noun:
The tumbler of a gunlock.
Examples:
"rfquotek Knight"
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Nut as a noun (nautical):
A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
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Nut as a verb (mostly in the form "nutting"):
To gather nuts.
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Nut as a verb (UK, transitive, slang):
To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.
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Nut as a verb (vulgar, slang):
To ejaculate.