Usually means: Concise summary in brief form.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. nutshell: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. nutshell: Merriam-Webster
  3. nutshell: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. nutshell: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. nutshell: Collins English Dictionary
  6. nutshell: Vocabulary.com
  7. Nutshell, nutshell: Wordnik
  8. nutshell: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. nutshell: Wiktionary
  10. nutshell: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. nutshell: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. nutshell: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Nutshell, nutshell: Dictionary.com
  14. nutshell: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. nutshell: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Nutshell (band), Nutshell (disambiguation), Nutshell (novel), Nutshell (song), Nutshell, The Nutshell (The Avengers), The Nutshell: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Nutshell: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. nutshell: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. nutshell: Rhymezone
  20. Nutshell: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. Nutshell: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. nutshell: FreeDictionary.org
  23. nutshell: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. nutshell: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nutshell: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nutshell: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nutshell: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (nutshell)

▸ noun:  The shell that surrounds the kernel of a nut.
▸ noun:  A short book summarizing an area of law.
▸ noun:  (nautical) A small boat; a boat considered small in comparison to the seas.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To summarize (from the term in a nutshell).

Similar:
world, shell, kernel, nanokernel, subshell, exokernel, subkernel, unikernel, microkernel, shellcode, more...

Opposite:
long-winded, verbose, wordy, prolix

Types:
in nutshell, put it mildly, in short, in fewer words, in word, in sentence, more...

Phrases:
in a nutshell, to be in a nutshell, The Universe in a Nutshell, nutshell opener, in the nutshell, more...

Adjectives:
little, proverbial, empty, small, mere, old, large, hazel, neat, hard, tiny

Colors:
    beige,     brown,     tan,     chestnut,     walnut, more...


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Similar:
world, shell, kernel, nanokernel, subshell, exokernel, subkernel, unikernel, microkernel, shellcode, more...

Opposite:
long-winded, verbose, wordy, prolix

Types:
in nutshell, put it mildly, in short, in fewer words, in word, in sentence, more...

Phrases:
in a nutshell, to be in a nutshell, The Universe in a Nutshell, nutshell opener, in the nutshell, put in a nutshell, more...

Adjectives:
little, proverbial, empty, small, mere, old, large, hazel, neat, hard, tiny

Colors:
    beige,     brown,     tan,     chestnut,     walnut, more...



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