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nutcracker::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | nuthatch |
| Type of | oscine bird, oscine |
| Has types | sitta europaea, european nuthatch, red-breasted nuthatch, white-breasted nuthatch, sitta canadensis, sitta carolinensis |
nutcracker::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | compound lever |
nutcracker::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | corvine bird |
| Has types | nucifraga columbiana, common nutcracker, nucifraga caryocatactes, clark's nutcracker |
Examples of nutcracker
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The nutcracker was developed by z suburban Detroit karate expert, Russell Hanke.
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The girl, Marie, tries to defend the nutcracker, but she is knocked unconscious.
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The nutcracker is just the thing that separates 49ers camp from all the others.
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A giant holiday nutcracker stood nearby, along with wreaths and twinkling lights.
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Gerri Mattson of Roseville sits amid her growing collection of nutcracker statues.
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You get a cleaner cut and lose less meat than when you use a mallet or nutcracker.
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For example, a granddaughter who's a ballet dancer always gets the nutcracker tin.
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The performances are more wooden than the nutcracker and with much less bite.
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Historic sites will have special exhibits, including a nutcracker collection.
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- A compound lever used to crack nuts open
- Nuthatch: any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects
- Speckled birds that feed on nuts
- A nutcracker is a mechanical device for cracking nuts. Usually they work on the principle of moments as described in Archimedes' analysis of the lever. The earliest use of the term nutcracker in English dates to 1481.
- The nutcrackers (Nucifraga) are a genus of two species of passerine bird, in the family Corvidae, related to the jays and crows. One, the Spotted Nutcracker (Nucifraga caryocatactes), occurs in Europe and Asia, the other, Clark's Nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana), in western North America.
- The Nutcracker is a two-act ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky's adaptation of the story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" by E. T. A. Hoffmann was commissioned by the director of the Imperial Theatres Ivan Vsevolozhsky in 1891. ...
- An implement for cracking nuts; Either of two birds of the genus Nucifraga in the crow family
- In Gray Lensman, two "free planets" (see above) with opposing inert velocities were positioned on either side of an enemy planet. Simultaneously inerted, they crushed the other planet between them; such approach will crush even a "free" planet.
- A horse which has acquired the habit of grinding his teeth.
