Used in a Sentence

nuts

How to use nuts in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for nuts.

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Hell go nuts, make it take 2 hours, go for mach 3. It is still going to take me, door to door, 8 hours.

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Quick take

informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy"

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for nuts.

Example sentences

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Hell go nuts, make it take 2 hours, go for mach 3. It is still going to take me, door to door, 8 hours.

2

Sites that do things like auto-search highlighted words drive me nuts because of it.

3

IOS drives me nuts. There was an old joke dialog years ago "Windows has detected that you r mouse moved.

4

While we're on the topic, I'm just going to say that those "anonymous" job postings here on YC drive me nuts "YCW11 company hiring front end dev! New office space!

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Because it's fucking nuts that some unprofessional, vindictive jerk like this guy was just acquired for $200 million. The world is seriously on tilt here.

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If you're just now thinking about starting to cook instead of going out every night, and you don't want to go too nuts with it, I'd recommend a crock pot / slow cooker. They're not sexy, but wow are they ever useful.

7

I don't have an answer here, but it likely involves completely tearing down the existing system to its nuts and bolts and building it back up. I'd love to hear ideas on this point from others that know more about it.

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No business would initially fund a project like this, it's nuts. And yet it exists, and continues to improve, and now companies like Codeweavers are built upon it.

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I think the author did a pretty good job of taking a month and exploring both the nuts an bolts of programming and the people behind it. Sure, she still couldn't do much at the end of the month, but at least she understood the process to some degree.

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Before the war it was considered a useless, hypo-theoretical branch of science only studied by nuts and eccentrics. Of course, not much longer later the US dropped 2 bombs on Japan ending the nuclear war.

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It's fucking nuts. When the so called "free market" fails and you have monopolies in place that are so anti-competitive and anti-consumer, then maybe it's time to go looking for another solution.

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So everybody's decided to abandon sane software versioning altogether and make the support end of things even more nuts? Hah!

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It doesn't seem to be that big a deal to many as evident by phone sales, but it drives me absolutely nuts and is the main reason why I won't make the switch to Android.

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To micro-optimize well you've got to understand soup-to-nuts everything that happens when your code is compiled and run. Personally I think speed is really important.

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Conspiracy nuts have been screaming this from the rooftops for years and suddenly because of Snowden [people are] finally listening? Yes. For example, they were called "conspiracy nuts" before.

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The greatest ability we evolved is the ability to teach our young significant skills such that one generation is building on the fruits of the last and we've all learned something beyond how to crack nuts open with rocks. Fiction often has a moral.

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Well let me be the first to say that I think that is an absolutely fucking crazy valuation and that MongoDB are either nuts or disingenuous for signing up for it. I would be astounded - astounded - if MongoDB generate even a tenth of that, just in revenue, ever.

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Stepping back though, the excitement, the nerd fests, the people going nuts over these things, like a spinning top in a maze randomly bouncing off the walls, eventually found a solution, or a use, for this technology that non-nerds could relate too. Initially that was spreadsheets, then small databases, and data collection and analysis that the 'big' computers had been doing since the start.

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If you ask someone in our field at random to visualize an elite startup hacker and then take bets on the attributes of that imaginary person, you would be nuts to bet on anything but "male", "English-speaking", "20-40", and "white or Asian". 25-year-old English-speaking white males have a privilege, whether they like it or not, because they fit into everyone's mold of a startup hacker.

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If you're of the belief that programming is stuck in a rut of constructs from the 1980s and 1990s, and that what is needed is better languages that more carefully describe and address the problems of correct and expressive programming, Golang will drive you nuts. If you're the kind of person who sees programming languages as mere tools --- and I think that's a totally legitimate perspective, personally --- you might find Golang very pleasant to use.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use nuts in a sentence?

Hell go nuts, make it take 2 hours, go for mach 3. It is still going to take me, door to door, 8 hours.

What does nuts mean?

informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy"

What part of speech is nuts?

nuts is commonly used as adjective.