[
US
/ˈnəɡɪt/
]
[ UK /nˈʌɡɪt/ ]
[ UK /nˈʌɡɪt/ ]
NOUN
- a solid lump of a precious metal (especially gold) as found in the earth
How To Use nugget In A Sentence
- He was a highly intelligent commercial lawyer and then judge who suddenly found himself having to grind out fact after fact from nuggets of information painstakingly. Times, Sunday Times
- The subject is not a nugget of inner being that extends itself outward to others whom it never quite reaches.
- In practice, the chips were sliced sweet potato and the nuggets were pieces of chicken dipped in ground almonds and paprika. Times, Sunday Times
- Some further elucidation should follow that lede but, basically, the lede communicates the essential nugget of information, true or not. Elizabeth Boleman-Herring: Still Seeking 'The Ineffable' in 2012
- The nuggetty, self-assured little bloke who regularly performs superhuman feats on the television screen may well be human after all.
- RBF neural network is used to predict nugget sizes of resistance spot welder, in which the input vectors are constructed by time sequences of cycle parameters.
- New York shot 60 percent in the third quarter, charging back to grab an 89-88 lead on Robinson's 3-pointer with 1: 05 remaining, about the time a disgusted Kenyon Martin began cursing from the Nuggets 'bench about letting the Knicks hang around. USATODAY.com
- Well, due to an impromptu trip to McDonalds for the wife, which then turned into a half-hour wait for a McFlurry (and nuggets and fries for me) in the drive-thru, I was pretty sure my night was shot. A review for INK
- There were fine nuggets of legerdemain, courtesy of the illusionist Paul Kieve.
- Will you be hunting for small objects like coins, jewelry and gold nuggets, or searching for a large cache or object?