1. interaction, action. usage: a mutual or reciprocal action; interacting. 2. interaction, fundamental interaction, physical phenomenon. usage: (physics) the transfer of energy between elementary particles or between an elementary particle and a field or between fields; mediated by gauge bosons.. interaction, action. usage: a mutual or reciprocal action; interacting. 2. interaction, fundamental interaction, physical phenomenon. usage: (physics) the transfer of energy between elementary particles or between an elementary particle and a field or between fields; mediated by gauge bosons.
Identification. The theologian, Thomas Aquinas, defined gluttony as an inordinant desire to eat and drink. While one of the seven deadly sins, gluttony is considered by the Roman Catholic church to be a venial sin.
crazy, 1846, from earlier be nutts upon be very fond of (1785), which is possibly from nuts (plural noun) any source of pleasure (1610s), from nut (q.v.). Sense influenced probably by metaphoric application of nut to head (1846, e.g. to be off one's nut be insane, 1860). Nuts as a derisive retort is attested from 1931. Connection with the slang testicle sense has tended to nudge it toward taboo.