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nuts and bolts

nuts and bolts noun: the basic inner workings of something; the fundamentals; that which makes something operate.

Noun

nuts and bolts pl (plural only)

  1. (idiomatic, plural, plural-only) The basic inner workings of something; the fundamentals; that which makes something operate.
    • It's really not so hard, once you know the nuts and bolts of the editing process.
    • The Duke intended to make Brora the nerve centre of the railway, and built a large engineering works near the station in which he planned to manufacture everything from nuts and bolts to locomotives.1960 January, Iain D. O. Frew, “The Brora Colliery Tramway”, in Railway Magazine, page 56
    Synonyms:
    brass tacks, nitty-gritty

nuts and bolts meaning in Malayalam

nuts and bolts in Malayalam

fundamenta-ls, practical details, basics
അടിസ്ഥാന പ്രയോഗതത്ത്വങ്ങൾ, വിശദാംശങ്ങൾ, പ്രായോഗിക വശങ്ങൾ, അടിസ്ഥാനവിവരങ്ങൾ, മൂലതത്ത്വങ്ങൾ, സാരസംഗ്രഹം

Examples of nuts and bolts in a sentence

  • It also involves working with the nuts and bolts of management and leadership.2010, Virginia A. Walter, Twenty-First-Century Kids, Twenty-First-Century Librarians, page 77:
  • The information presented in the previous chapters gives the nuts and bolts of the most common and basic techniques used to prove the truth of mathematical results.2011, Antonella Cupillari, The Nuts and Bolts of Proofs: An Introduction to Mathematical Proofs, page 71:

Synonyms of nuts and bolts

Forms of nuts and bolts

alternative formnuts-and-bolts

Words formed from nuts and bolts

Questions about nuts and bolts

What does nuts and bolts mean?
Nuts and bolts means the basic inner workings of something; the fundamentals; that which makes something operate.
What is nuts and bolts in Malayalam?
Nuts and bolts in Malayalam is അടിസ്ഥാന പ്രയോഗതത്ത്വങ്ങൾ, വിശദാംശങ്ങൾ, പ്രായോഗിക വശങ്ങൾ. See Nuts and bolts meaning in Malayalam.
How do you use nuts and bolts in a sentence?
It also involves working with the nuts and bolts of management and leadership.
What part of speech is nuts and bolts?
Nuts and bolts is a noun.

Words near nuts and bolts in the dictionary

  1. nutrix
  2. nutrose
  3. nutrush
  4. nutrushes
  5. nuts
  6. nuts and bolts
  7. nuts out
  8. nuts to
  9. nuts to butts
  10. nuts up
  11. nuts-to-butts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nuts and bolts (page history and authors); nuts and bolts (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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