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Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- (British, uncountable) The main cereal plant grown for its grain in a given region, such as oats in parts of Scotland and Ireland, and wheat or barley in England and Wales.
- A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands.
- (US, Canada) Something (e.g. acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion.
- (uncountable) short for corn snow. A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and re-freezing, often in mountain spring conditions.
- (US, Canada, Australia, uncountable) Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.
- A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop.
- A small, hard particle.
Verbit
- (US, Canada) To granulate; to form a substance into grains.
- (US, Canada) To preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef
- (US, Canada) To provide with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed.
- (transitive) To render intoxicated.
Esimerkit
- Among the divinities that dwelt on Mount Olympus, none was more friendly to the husbandman than Demeter, goddess of corn.
- However much the individual manufacturer might give the rein to his old lust for gain, the spokesmen and political leaders of the manufacturing class ordered a change of front and of speech towards the workpeople. They had entered upon the contest for the repeal of the Corn Laws, and needed the workers to help them to victory. They promised therefore, not only a double-sized loaf of bread, but the enactment of the Ten Hours' Bill in the Free-trade millennium.
- I found that we had nearly a hundred bushels of corn, including wheat, maize, and barley, to add to our store.
- The planting or sowing of maize, exclusively called corn, was just accomplished on the Town Hill, when I reached it.
- He paid her the nominal fee of two corns of barley.
- corn of sand
- a corn of powder
- to corn gunpowder
- Corn the horses.
- ale strong enough to corn one
- Welcome, gentlemen! Ladies that have their toes / Unplagued with corns, will have a bout with you.
- He had a sharp wit, true enough, but also a good, healthy mountaineer's love of pure corn, the slapstick stuff, the in-jokes that get funnier with every repetition and never amuse anybody who wasn't there.
- There were lots of jokes on the show and they were pure corn, but the audience didn't mind.
- The bulk of this humor was pure corn, but as hillbilly material it was meant to be that way.
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