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— William Blake

Tyger, tyger, burning bright

In the forests of the night,

What immortal hand or eye

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

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verb

To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.

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Dictionary Entry

nuts and bolts

Part of Speechnoun

The basic inner workings of something; the fundamentals; that which makes something operate.

In a Sentence

“It's really not so hard, once you know the nuts and bolts of the editing process.”

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Synonyms

brass tacksnitty-gritty

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Related Words

kernelnucleusnifecircuitrynutritiveknobologynutterynutarianism

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