Corn meaning
An ear of this plant.
noun
Corn is defined as to form into tiny particles, to feed grain to animals, or to preserve foods with salt.
An example of corn is to bring grain out to the horses.
verb
The definition of corn is a hard, seed like kernel of an American cereal plant, or a painful, hard and thick growth on the skin.
An example of corn is something people eat on Thanksgiving.
An example of a corn is a painful bump on the toe.
noun
Any of various cereal plants or grains, especially the principal crop cultivated in a particular region, such as wheat in England or oats in Scotland.
noun
Ideas, humor, music, etc. regarded as old-fashioned, trite, banal, or sentimental.
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Corn whiskey.
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Something considered trite, dated, melodramatic, or unduly sentimental.
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Any of numerous cultivated forms of a widely grown, usually tall annual cereal grass (Zea mays) bearing grains or kernels on large ears.
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The grains or kernels of this plant, used as food for humans and livestock or for the extraction of an edible oil or starch.
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A single grain of a cereal plant.
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A seed or fruit of various other plants, such as a peppercorn.
noun
To cause to form hard particles; granulate.
verb
To feed (animals) with corn or grain.
verb
To season and preserve with granulated salt.
verb
To preserve (beef, for example) in brine.
verb
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To form hard particles; become grainy.
verb
A tiny, hard particle, as of salt or sand; granule; grain.
noun
A small, hard seed or seedlike fruit, esp. a seed or grain of a cereal grass; kernel.
Peppercorn, barleycorn.
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The leading cereal crop in a particular place, as wheat in England or oats in Scotland and Ireland.
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Corn whiskey.
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A cultivated American cereal plant (Zea mays) of the grass family, with the grain borne on cobs enclosed in husks; maize.
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The ears or kernels of this cereal plant.
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The seeds of all cereal grasses, as wheat, rye, barley, etc.; grain.
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Any plant or plants producing grain.
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To form into granules.
verb
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To preserve or pickle with salt granules or in brine.
verb
To feed grain to (animals)
verb
A hard, thick, painful growth of skin, esp. on a toe, caused by pressure or friction.
noun
An agricultural product that is grown throughout the Midwestern United States, as well as other areas. Futures and options on corn have been traded on the Chicago Board of Trade since 1877. Corn also is traded on other futures exchanges throughout the world. Monthly crop reports produced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture are closely watched by corn traders because they give information about expected supply, which directly affects prices.
A small, hard particle.
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(US, Canada) To preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef.
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(US, Canada) To provide with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed.
Corn the horses.
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To render intoxicated.
Ale strong enough to corn one.
verb
(US, Canada) Something (e.g. acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion.
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(uncountable) Short for corn snow. A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and re-freezing, often in mountain spring conditions.
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Corn snow.
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Origin of corn
From Middle English corn, from Old English corn, from Proto-Germanic *kurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain; worn-down”), neuter participle of Proto-Indo-European *ǵer- (“to wear down”), or a substantivized form of *ǵr̥h₂-nós (“matured, grown old”), from *ǵerh₂- (“grow old, mature”). Cognate with Dutch koren, Low German Koorn, German Korn, Danish/Norwegian/Swedish korn; see also Russian зерно (zerno), Czech zrno, Latin grānum, Lithuanian žirnis, Persian خرمن (xarman), and English grain.