different between gist vs nut

English

Etymology

From Old French gist, from the verb gesir (“to lie down”), from Latin iace?. Compare French gésir or gîte (“lodging”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

gist (plural gists)

1. The most essential part; the main idea or substance (of a longer or more complicated matter); the crux of a matter; the pith.
   • 1948, Carl Sandburg, Remembrance Rock, page 103,

     "Should they live and build their church in the American wilderness, their worst dangers would rise in and among themselves rather than outside. That was the gist of the lesson from their pastor and "wellwiller" John Robinson."

   • 1996, Nicky Silver, Etiquette and Vitriol, Theatre Communications Group 1996, p. 10:

     I was really just vomiting images like spoiled sushi (that may be an ill-considered metaphor, but you get my gist).

   • 2003, David McDuff, translating Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, Penguin 2003 p. 183:

     I don't remember his exact words, but the gist of it was that he wanted it all for nothing, as quickly as possible, without any effort.

2. (law, dated) The essential ground for action in a suit, without which there is no cause of action.
3. (obsolete) Resting place (especially of animals), lodging.
   • 1601, Philemon Holland's translation of Pliny's Natural History, 1st ed., book X, chapter XXIII “Of Swallowes, Ousles, or Merles, Thrushes, Stares or Sterlings, Turtles, and Stockdoves.”, p. 282:

     These Quailes have their set gists, to wit, ordinarie resting and baiting places. [These quails have their set gists, to wit, ordinary resting and baiting places.]

Synonyms

• (most essential part): crux, quintessence; See also Thesaurus:gist
• (essential ground for action): gravamen
• (resting place): lair

Translations

Verb

gist (third-person singular simple present gists, present participle gisting, simple past and past participle gisted)

1. To summarize, to extract and present the most important parts of.
   • 1873, Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the National Educational Association, session of the year 1872, at Boston, Massachusetts, page 201:

     There are two general ways of getting information, and these two general ways may be summed up in this: take one branch of study and its principles are all gisted, they have been gisted by the accumulated thought of years gone by. These gisted thoughts are axioms, or received principles, […]

Translations

References

• Webster, Noah (1828) , “gist”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
• “gist” in Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed, 1856.
• gist in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• GTis, ISTG, gits, stig, tigs

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??st/
• Hyphenation: gist
• Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch gest, gist, from Old Dutch *gest, *gist, from Proto-Germanic *jestuz.

Noun

gist f (plural gisten)

1. yeast

Derived terms

• biergist
• gisten
• gistzwam

Descendants

• Afrikaans: gis

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

gist

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of gisten
2. imperative of gisten

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

gist

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of gissen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of gissen

Middle English

Noun

gist

1. Alternative form of gest

Old French

Verb

gist

1. third-person singular present indicative of gesir

Romansch

Etymology

From Latin i?stus, j?stus.

Adjective

gist m (feminine singular gista, masculine plural gists, feminine plural gistas)

1. right

Yola

Alternative forms

• jeist

Etymology

From Middle English juste.

Adverb

gist

1. just, just now

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /n?t/, enPR: n?t
  • (California, General New Zealand, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [n?t]
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English nute, note, from Old English hnutu, from Proto-Germanic *hnuts (“nut”) (compare West Frisian nút, Dutch noot, German Nuss, Danish nød, Swedish nöt, Norwegian nøtt), from Proto-Indo-European *knew- (compare Irish cnó, Latin nux (“walnut”), Albanian nyç (“a gnarl”)).

Noun

nut (plural nuts)

1. A hard-shelled seed.

3. 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.

   Hypernym: fastener

   Hyponyms: acorn nut, barrel nut, square nut, wing nut

   • 1998, Brian Hingley, Furniture Repair & Refinishing - Page 95[1]

     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.

4. (slang) A crazy person.

   Synonyms: loony, nutbag, nutcase, nutter; see also Thesaurus:mad person
5. (slang) The head.

   Synonyms: bonce, noodle
6. (US, slang) Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
7. (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:

     My attorney was waiting in a bar around the corner. “This won't make the nut,” he said, “unless we have unlimited credit.”

8. (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.
9. (music, 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.
10. (typography slang) En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
11. (dated, Britain, slang) An extravagantly fashionable young man. [1910s-1920s]
    • 1914, "Saki", ‘The Dreamer’, Beasts and Superbeasts, Penguin 2000 (Complete Short Stories), p. 323:

      ‘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 [...].

12. (vulgar, slang, chiefly plural) A testicle.

    Synonyms: ball, (taboo slang) bollock, nads

13. (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Semen, ejaculate.
14. (vulgar, slang, countable) Orgasm, ejaculation; especially release of semen
    • 2020, Dontavious Robinson, Gangster Mission Part One, Page Publishing, Inc (?ISBN)

      […] feelin' her pussy grippin' his dick as her nut lubricated him […]

    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:nut.
15. (colloquial) An extreme enthusiast.

16. (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

      When placing nuts, always look for constrictions within the crack, behind which the nut can be wedged.

17. (poker, only in attributive use) The best possible hand of a certain type, for instance: "nut straight", "nut flush", and "nut full house". Compare nuts (“the best possible hand available”).

18. The tumbler of a gunlock.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

19. (nautical) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
20. (archaic) A small rounded cake or cookie

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

nut (third-person singular simple present nuts, present participle nutting, simple past and past participle nutted or (nonstandard) nut)

1. (mostly in the form "nutting") To gather nuts.
2. (Britain, transitive, slang) To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.

   Synonyms: butt, Glasgow kiss, Liverpool kiss, loaf
3. (slang, mildly vulgar) To orgasm; to ejaculate.

   Synonyms: blow a nut, bust a nut; see also Thesaurus:ejaculate

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:nut.

Etymology 2

Interjection

nut

1. (Scotland, colloquial) No.
   • 1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage 2015, p. 26:

     Did you like them boys? I goes.

     Nut. She shook her hair.

     Neither?

     Nut. Right townies.

Anagrams

• NTU, Tun, tun

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [n??t]

Noun

nut (plural [please provide])

1. use, benefit

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Dutch

Etymology

From the adjective Middle Dutch nutte (“useful”), or from Middle Dutch nut (“yield”), from Old Dutch *nut, from Proto-Germanic *nutj?, *nutj? (“profit, yield, utility”), from Proto-Indo-European *newd- (“to seize; grasp; use”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?t/
• Hyphenation: nut
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

nut n (uncountable)

1. use, point, utility, sense

   Synonym: zin

2. benefit

   Synonym: voordeel

Derived terms

• Nutsman
• nuttig
• nutteloos

Adjective

nut (comparative nutter, superlative nutst)

1. (obsolete) useful

   Synonym: nuttig

Inflection

Derived terms

• onnut

Middle English

Adverb

nut

1. Alternative form of not

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse hnútr.

Noun

nut m (definite singular nuten, indefinite plural nuter, definite plural nutene)

1. a tall, rounded mountain top

References

• “nut” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse hnútr.

Noun

nut m (definite singular nuten, indefinite plural nutar, definite plural nutane)

1. a tall, rounded mountain top

References

• “nut” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

• not

Etymology

From Old Norse hnot, from Proto-Germanic *hnuts.

Noun

nut f

1. nut

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: nöt

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nut/

Noun

nut f

1. genitive plural of nuta

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n??/

Interjection

nut

1. (South Scots) no; used to show disagreement or negation.

Unua

Noun

nut

1. Alternative form of naut

Further reading

• Elizabeth Pearce, A Grammar of Unua (2015)