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nuts and bolts

Main Entry:
nuts and bolts []
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: basic parts
Synonyms: basic details, basics, brass tacks, essentials, fundamentals, innards, inner workings, mechanics, nitty-gritty, no frills, no nonsense, practical details, practicalities, workings
Main Entry: detail
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: feature, specific aspect
Synonyms: ABCs, accessory, article, brass tacks, chapter and verse, circumstantiality, component, count, cue, design, dope*, element, fact, factor, fine point, fraction, item, meat and potatoes, minor point, minutia, nicety, nitty-gritty, nuts and bolts, part, particular, peculiarity, plan, point, portion, respect, schedule, singularity, specialty, specification, structure, technicality, thing, trait, trivia, triviality
Antonyms: whole
Main Entry: essential
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: necessity, basic
Synonyms: ABCs, bottom line, brass tacks, condition, element, essence, fire and ice, fundamental, groceries, guts*, heart, meat and potatoes, must, name of the game, nitty-gritty, nuts and bolts, part and parcel, precondition, prerequisite, principle, quintessence, requirement, requisite, rudiment, sine qua non, stuff, substance, vital part, where one's at
Notes: the words crucial, essential, and vital cannot be qualified (cannot be more or less...)
Antonyms: accessory, auxiliary, nonessential, subsidiary, throwaway, trivia
Main Entry: execution
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: carrying out of a task
Synonyms: accomplishment, achievement, administration, completion, consummation, delivery, discharge, doing, effect, enactment, enforcement, fulfilling, implementation, nuts and bolts, operation, performance, prosecution, realization, rendering, style
Antonyms: abandoning, disregard, failure, forgetting, ignorance, leaving, neglect
Main Entry: foundation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: basis for something physical or mental
Synonyms: ABCs, authority, base, basics, bed, bedrock, bottom, bottom line, brass tacks, foot, footing, ground, groundwork, guts*, heart*, infrastructure, justification, nitty-gritty, nub, nuts and bolts, prop, reason, root, stay, substratum, substructure, support, underpinning, understructure
Main Entry: gist
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: meaning, essence
Synonyms: basis, bearing, bottom line, burden, core, drift, force, heart, idea, import, kernel, keynote, marrow, matter, meat*, name of the game, nature of the beast, nitty gritty, nuts and bolts, pith, point, punch line, quintessence, score, sense, short, significance, soul, spirit, stuff*, subject, substance, summary, tenor, theme, thrust, topic, upshot
Main Entry: import
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: meaning
Synonyms: acceptation, bearing, bottom line, construction, drift*, gist*, heart*, implication, intendment, intention, interpretation, meat*, message, name of the game, nature of beast, nuts and bolts, point, punch line, purport, score*, sense, significance, significancy, signification, stuff*, thrust, understanding
Main Entry: intent/intention
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: aim, purpose
Synonyms: acceptation, animus, bottom line, conation, design, desire, drift, end, goal, heart, hope, idea, import, intendment, meaning, meat*, name of the game, nature, notion, nub, nuts and bolts, object, objective, plan, point, project, purport, scheme, score, sense, significance, significancy, signification, target, understanding, volition, will, wish
Main Entry: meaning
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: message, signification
Synonyms: acceptation, allusion, bearing, bottom line, connotation, content, context, definition, denotation, drift, effect, essence, explanation, force, gist, heart*, hint, implication, import, interpretation, intimation, meat, name of the game, nature of beast, nitty-gritty, nuance, nuts and bolts, pith, point, purport, sense, significance, spirit, stuff, subject, subject matter, substance, suggestion, symbolization, tenor, thrust, understanding, upshot, use, value, worth
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