Gut vs. Nut — What's the Difference?

The stomach or belly

An indehiscent fruit having a single seed enclosed in a hard shell, such as an acorn or hazelnut.

Used in reference to a feeling or reaction based on an instinctive emotional response rather than considered thought

The usually edible seed of such a fruit.

Personal courage and determination; toughness of character

Any of various other usually edible seeds enclosed in a hard covering such as a seed coat or the stone of a drupe, as in a pine nut, peanut, almond, or walnut.

Fibre made from the intestines of animals, used especially for violin or racket strings or for surgical use.

A crazy or eccentric person.

A narrow passage or strait.

An enthusiast; a buff

Remove the intestines and other internal organs from (a fish or other animal) before cooking it.

(Informal) A difficult endeavor or problem

Cause (someone) to feel extremely upset or disappointed

(Slang) The human head.

The digestive tract or a portion thereof, especially the intestine or stomach.

A ridge of wood at the top of the fingerboard or neck of a stringed instrument, over which the strings pass.

The embryonic digestive tube, consisting of the foregut, the midgut, and the hindgut.

A device at the lower end of the bow for a stringed instrument, used for tightening the hairs.

Guts The bowels or entrails; viscera.

A small block of metal or wood with a central, threaded hole that is designed to fit around and secure a bolt or screw.

(Informal) A large belly or abdomen, especially one resulting from overeating or a sedentary lifestyle

The cost of launching a business venture.

Innermost emotional or visceral response

The operating expenses of a theater, theatrical production, or similar enterprise

Guts The inner or essential parts

Vulgar Slang A testicle.

Guts Informal Courage; fortitude

To gather or hunt for nuts.

Thin, tough cord made from the intestines of animals, usually sheep, used as strings for musical instruments or as surgical sutures.

Vulgar Slang To ejaculate.

Fibrous material taken from the silk gland of a silkworm before it spins a cocoon, used for fishing tackle.

Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.

A narrow passage or channel.

Such a fruit that is indehiscent.

The central, lengthwise portion of a playing area.

(hardware) A piece of hardware, typically metal and typically hexagonal or square in shape, with a hole through it having internal screw threads, intended to be screwed onto a threaded bolt or other threaded shaft.

The players occupying this space

(slang) The head. 19

(Slang) A gut course.

(slang) A crazy person.

To remove the intestines or entrails of; eviscerate.

(colloquial) An extreme enthusiast.

To extract essential or major parts of

An extravagantly fashionable young man.

To destroy the interior of

The glans structure at the extremity of the penis or of the clitoris.

To reduce or destroy the effectiveness of

A testicle.

Arousing or involving basic emotions; visceral

Semen, ejaculate.

The alimentary canal, especially the intestine.

Orgasm, ejaculation; especially release of semen.

(informal) The abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged

Monthly expense to keep a venture running.

(uncountable) The intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc.

The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.

A person's emotional, visceral self.

A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.

(informal) A class that is not demanding or challenging.

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.

A narrow passage of water.

En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.

The sac of silk taken from a silkworm when ready to spin its cocoon, for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. When dry, it is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fishing line.

(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.)

(transitive) To eviscerate.

The best possible hand of a certain type, for instance: nut straight, nut flush, and nut full house. Compare t=the best possible hand available.

(transitive) To remove or destroy the most important parts of.

(firearms) The tumbler of a gunlock.

To dishearten; to crush (the spirits of).

(nautical) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.

Made of gut.

(archaic) A small rounded cake or cookie.

Instinctive.

(mostly in the form "nutting") To gather nuts.

A narrow passage of water; as, the Gut of Canso.

To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.

An intenstine; a bowel; the whole alimentary canal; the enteron; (pl.) bowels; entrails.

To orgasm; to ejaculate.

One of the prepared entrails of an animal, esp. of a sheep, used for various purposes. See Catgut.

(slang) To hit in the testicles.

The sac of silk taken from a silkworm (when ready to spin its cocoon), for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. This, when dry, is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fish line.

(slang) To defeat thoroughly.

To take out the bowels from; to eviscerate.

No.

To plunder of contents; to destroy or remove the interior or contents of; as, a mob gutted the house.

The fruit of certain trees and shrubs (as of the almond, walnut, hickory, beech, filbert, etc.), consisting of a hard and indehiscent shell inclosing a kernel.

The part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus

A perforated block (usually a small piece of metal), provided with an internal or female screw thread, used on a bolt, or screw, for tightening or holding something, or for transmitting motion. See Illust. of 1st Bolt.

A strong cord made from the intestines of sheep and used in surgery

The tumbler of a gunlock.

Empty completely; destroy the inside of;

A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.

Remove the guts of;

Testicles.

To gather nuts.

Usually large hard-shelled seed

Egyptian goddess of the sky

A small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt

Half the width of an em

A whimsically eccentric person

Someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction;

One of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens;

Gather nuts