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corn English

Meaning corn meaning

What does corn mean?
Definitions in simple English

corn Noun

— Corn is a kind of grain, usually with large yellow seeds, that is often eaten (also called maize). We will be eating corn tomorrow. — The plant corn grows on. We planted some corn in our garden last year. — Any kind of grain. We put several barley corns into the soup.

corn

— noun tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times — noun the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal — noun ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food — noun something sentimental or trite that movie was pure corn — noun (Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region--wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland) — noun a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes — verb feed (cattle) with corn — verb preserve with salt corned beef — noun whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn

Synonyms corn synonyms

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corn English » English

maize grain Indian corn callus callosity wheat cereal salt sweet corn seed mealies cereals blister Zea mays wart rice pickle corn whisky corn whiskey clavus edible corn cure common wheat callous weal tyle triticum vulgare triticum sativum stem stalk spike sorghum soft wheat scar salinate rice and barley popcorn oat maize oil maize kernel maise kipper kernel kern kaffir corn indian corn hemp grits green corn granule

Topics corn topics

What do people use corn to talk about?
Universe, creation Plant

Grass, herb, vine
Person Body

Skin
Person Healthy Disease

Skin disease
Daily life Food Types of food Food from plants

Food from seeds
Daily life Food Types of food Cooking ingredients

Cooking oil
Daily life Food Types of food Alcoholic beverage

Alcohol preparation
Universe, creation Plant

Parts of a plant
Daily life Food Food preparation Steps in food preparation

Grind flour
Daily life Food Types of food

Cooking ingredients
Work and occupation Agriculture

Process harvest

Conjugation corn conjugation

How do you conjugate corn?

corn · verb

Examples corn examples

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Simple sentences

Bourbon is made from corn.
Corn is an important crop in the United States.
I have had a corn removed from my foot.
The farmer plants the corn in the spring.
They lived on corn, potatoes, and the meat of animals.
There will be a giant crop of corn this year.
Corn starch is good for thickening soup.
Corn yields in the U.S. have increased fivefold over the past seventy years, thanks to advances in agricultural technology.
Tom felt tired after working all day planting corn.
This year I think I'll grow corn instead of potatoes.
But, there were deep green patches in the growing corn at first, that people looked at awfully.
I'm allergic to corn.
Bad seed must produce bad corn.
There's a fine crop of corn this year.
Our neighbor's ground yields better corn than our own.
Part of why corn syrup is in everything is because massive corn monocultures have created a surplus that agriculture companies are scrambling to get rid of.
I like corn dogs.
We grow grapes, corn and fruit trees.
Ali's grandfather was a corn trader.

Movie subtitles

This is barley and potatos and corn.
You chop up the corn dogs and I'll slice the cucumbers.
A boy in a dress just walked by and stuck an entire corn dog in his mouth.
If it's anything like the way you eat corn, I'm terrified.
And some corn fritters.
This one is used to grow sweet corn.
We are looking for a pesticide manufacturer who used to supply tobacco growers but made the transition to corn.
Shironine will go to the market in the city to sell his corn.
We would live and grow the way corn does in the field, unless.
The loveliest time of the year now when the corn ripens.
That very desirable corn and stock-rearing and parklike residential land known as the, uh, centry, deepwater.
And 10 shiploads of Egyptian corn for the unemployed in Rome.
Ten ships of corn.
A corn-fed bohunk like that falIing into the Semple fortune is hot copy.
You trod on my confounded corn, sir.
Come on. Let's get out of here, dig up some corn.
Get in there, corn-fed, and be quick! - You can't do this.
Tell Donald to get a dozen more and an extra can of corn.
I told you to eat corn flakes for breakfast, not the goldenrod.
Do you realize, boy, that I had a farm giving 900 bushels of corn. until that railroad had taken it from me?
Hello. What you need is a wee drinkie of this good corn liquor.
Chicken okra, corn pone, shortening bread. pickled watermelon, and a stomach pump.
Afore long you'll be eating your own corn and roasting your own shoats.
Oh, Jeeter here's a dozen new corn I was taking home, if you can use it.
Let's get home and eat some of this corn before Dude and Ellie May know anything about it.
Funny thing is, you are sort of attractive in a corn-fed sort of way.
The corn assistance scheme has also been suspended.
Over here.you can take them. This is barley and potatos and corn. We are giving this for your children that are starving, so you better be very grateful for them.
We are looking for a pesticide manufacturer who used to supply tobacco growers but transitioned to corn.
CROP ESTIMATE PUTS CORN PRICE UP, WHEAT DOWN.
Corn plasters.
Corn usse?
I wish a miracle would cure my corn. Why?
You weren't such a corn-fed dope as to.
Cream of corn soup, potato salad, salami and liverwurst.
I used to spend my spare time down on those little islands working truck gardens so my outfit could have fresh tomatoes and green corn and all that.
Wish they'd learn to grow corn without husks.

News and current affairs

The US subsidizes corn-based ethanol, and imposes tariffs on sugar-based ethanol; hidden in the tax code are billions of dollars of subsidies to the oil and gas industries.
That is enough corn to feed 350 million people for an entire year.
All of the major grains - rice, corn, and wheat - are already suffering from global warming, the article explains, but wheat is the most vulnerable to high temperatures.
Farmers near Beijing, for example, have been paid to convert croplands from rice to corn.
Shifting to corn not only reduces water consumption; it also cuts the amount of pollution that reaches city residents downstream.
He claims that global warming caused the current drought in America's Midwest, and that supposedly record-high corn prices could cause a global food crisis.
Bill McKibben similarly frets in The Guardian and The Daily Beast about the Midwest drought and corn prices.
A common story, still repeated by Shiva, is that GM corn with Bt toxin kills Monarch butterflies.
Brazilian sugar-based ethanol costs far less to produce than American corn-based ethanol.
People who naively believed that cows ate grass discovered that beef cattle in feed lots may be fed anything from corn to fish meal, chicken litter (complete with chicken droppings), and slaughterhouse waste.
Thirty percent of this year's corn production in the United States will be burned up on America's highways.
France's health, ecology, and agriculture ministers promised a prompt investigation and threatened to ban imports of Monsanto's GM corn to the European Union.
Russia actually did block imports of Monsanto corn.
But the public saw only pictures of tumorous rats that had consumed GM corn and Roundup.
Thanks to this financial assistance, one-sixth of the world's corn supply is burned in American cars.
Global food prices are the highest they have been since the United Nations started tracking them in 1990, pushed up largely by increases in the cost of corn.
He did not dwell on the diversion of American corn from food to heavily subsidized bio-fuels.
Ethanol subsidies, such as those paid to American corn farmers, do not accomplish policymakers' avowed environmental goals, but do divert grain and thus help drive up world food prices.
The standard daily ration is 150-300 grams (5-10 ounces) of corn or rice (equivalent to roughly four slices of dry bread), depending on the location.
At the same time, the agreement eliminates most import tariffs for commodities like rice, yellow corn, or dairy products.
For a glimpse at the future, look at what has happened to Mexican corn farmers since NAFTA.
But, during the last few decades of the century, European tariff rates fell substantially, largely in response to the United Kingdom's unilateral repeal of the Corn Laws, which had imposed substantial tariffs on imported grain.
Sucrose and high-fructose corn syrup are comprised of one molecule of glucose (not especially sweet) and one molecule of fructose (very sweet).
Since this quantity is required by the government to be blended with gasoline, regardless of the price of ethanol, corn, or gasoline, the demand that it creates for corn is not at all responsive to the price of corn.
On some of his land, he now grows corn and peanuts instead of cotton.
The costs of the government's failure to support farmers can be seen in the stunted bodies of children and the poor diets of adults, even in a year when Malawi is witnessing bumper harvests of corn, the country's staple.
Bolivia prohibited the export of corn, rice, meat, and vegetable oil.
Tons of cheap food (corn, for instance) is used to create more expensive food (like steak).
After NAFTA was signed, America took actions to restrict tomatoes, avocados, corn brooms, and truck transportation.

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