Nut

Nutoften refers to:

• Nut (fruit),fruit composed of a hard shell and a seed, or a collective noun for dry and edible fruits or seeds
• Nut (hardware),fastener used with a bolt

Nut,NUTorNutsmay also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Comics

• Nuts,comic in the National Lampoon byGahan Wilson(1970s)
• Nuts,comic strip in alternative newspapers byM. Wartella(1990s)

Fictional characters

• Nut (Marvel Comics),fictional character evoking the Egyptian sky goddess
• Nut (movie character),character portrayed by Shing Fui-On in two late 20th-century Hong Kong crime films

Films

• Nuts(1987 film),American drama
• Nuts(2012 film),French comedy
• Nuts!(film),animated documentary on John R. Brinkley

Television

• NBC Universal Television Studio,or NUTS, former name of television arm of NBCUniversal / Universal Television
• Nuts TV,British television channel related toNutsmagazine

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Nut,album by KT Tunstall
• Nuts(album),by Kevin Gilbert
• Nuts(magazine),UK men's weekly
• Nuts(play),1979 play by Tom Topor
• "Nuts", song byBrooke CandyandLil Aaron

Health

• NUT carcinoma,rare, very aggressive cancer

Institutions and organisations

• National Union of Teachersor NUT, former British trade union for school teachers
• Norwegian University of Science and Technologyor NUT
• NUT (studio),anime studio

Instruments and mechanical tools

• Nut (climbing),metal device for wedging in rock crevices
• Nut, moving element of aball screw
• Nut (string instrument),device supporting and stabilizing strings near the headstock of a violin or guitar

Science and technology

• 306367 Nut,Apollo asteroid (1960)
• Network UPS Toolsor NUTS
• No U-Turn Sampleror NUTS, algorithm
• Nuclear utilization target selectionor NUTS, theory regarding nuclear weaponry
• NUT Container,FFmpegformat
• Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics,a European Union system of multiple layers of geographical divisions

Slang

• Aninsaneperson
• Nut handor "the nuts", poker term for an unbeatable hand
• "Nuts", humantesticles
• "Nut", term that can either refer tosemenorejaculation

Other uses

• Nut (goddess),the Egyptian goddess of the sky
• Nut, theEn dashin typography
• Modesto Nuts,minor league baseball team in Modesto, California, USA
• No U-turn syndromeor NUTS, term describing Singaporean culture
• NUT Motorcycles,Newcastle-upon-Tyne motorcycle manufacturer
• "Nuts!", U.S. Army GeneralAnthony McAuliffe's refusal-to-surrender message during the World War II German siege of Bastogne
• Nutty slack, cheap fuel consisting of slack (coal dust) and small lumps of coal (nuts) (British English)
• The Nut (Tasmania),volcanic plug near the town of Stanley, Australia

See also

• Nutcase (disambiguation)
• Nut grass (disambiguation)
• Nut job (disambiguation)
• Nutcracker (disambiguation)
• Nutt (disambiguation)
• Nutter (disambiguation)
• The Nut (disambiguation)