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nutshell 音標拼音: [n'ʌtʃ ,ɛl] n. 堅果殼,極小的容器,極小的住家 堅果殼,極小的容器,極小的住家 nutshell n 1: the shell around the kernel of a nutNutshell \ Nut" shell`\, n. 1. The shell or hard external covering in which the kernel of a nut is inclosed. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Hence, a thing of little compass, or of little value. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Zool.) A shell of the genus Nucula. [ 1913 Webster] { in a nutshell} in a summarized and very abbreviated form; -- of statments, descriptions, reports, and other communications; as, to describe the convention in a nutshell. { To be in a nutshell} or { To lie in a nutshell},, to be within a small compass; to admit of very brief or simple determination or statement. " The remedy lay in a nutshell." -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster PJC] 65 Moby Thesaurus words for " nutshell": abridge, ace, atom, bit, brief, capsule, capsulize, condense, dab, digest, dole, dot, dram, dribble, driblet, dwarf, farthing, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, gobbet, grain, granule, groat, hair, handful, inventory, iota, jot, little, little bit, minim, minimum, minutiae, mite, modicum, molecule, mote, ounce, outline, particle, pebble, pinch, pittance, point, scruple, shorten, sketch, sketch out, smidgen, smitch, speck, spoonful, spot, sum, sum up, summarize, summate, synopsize, thimbleful, tiny bit, tittle, trifling amount, trivia, whit
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