corn
IPA: kˈɔrn
noun
- (Commonwealth English, but not Canada, Australia, or New Zealand, uncountable) Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region.
- (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, uncountable) Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.
- A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop.
- A small, hard particle.
- (uncountable) A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and refreezing, often in mountain spring conditions.
- (Jamaica, MLE, slang, firearms, uncountable) bullets, ammunition, charge and discharge of firearms
- (Jamaica, slang, uncountable) money.
- A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands.
- (veterinary medicine) An inflammatory disease of a horse's hoof, at the caudal part of the sole.
- (veterinary medicine) Skin hyperplasia with underlying fibroma between both digits of cattle.
- (US, Canada) Something (e.g. acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion.
- A surname.
- A town in Oklahoma
verb
- (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 (an animal) with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed.
- (transitive, obsolete) To render intoxicated.
- (Jamaica, MLE, slang) To shoot up with bullets as by a shotgun (corn).
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Examples of "corn" in Sentences
- The corns continued to grow and fatten.
- Maize and corn are cultivated in that area.
- Cornbread or corn muffins are served on the side.
- Brink was the promoter of the Corn Exchange shows.
- It is the major producer of rice and corn in the region.
- The sheltered waters created by the Corn Cob block ships.
- Corn was ground into flour and used to make corn fritters.
- Newmills Corn and Flax Mills is powered by the waters of the river.
- Maize and corn represents the main agricultural products of the region.
- [178-11] The _corn_ is grain of some kind, not our maize or Indian corn.
- The expansion of a corn belt in Kentucky and Ohio had created a corn glut.
- “Tri corn cynghlud y sydd; _corn cynhauav_, corn dadlau, a chorn goly-chwyd.”
- Didn't kow much if any of this about corn and I always kind of wondered why they called it *sweet corn*.
- The two principal varieties of field corn, when prepared as cereal food for man, are _hominy_ and _corn meal_.
- The seeds of the maize plant, or Indian corn, especially the variety known as _sweet corn_, are eaten as a vegetable when they are immature.
- When the white man came to this country he found the Indians using corn; for this reason, in addition to its name _maize_, it is called _Indian corn_.
- This is misleading, since there are several chemical processing steps required, with consequent chemical changes that are not reflected in the term 'corn sugar.'
- A year ago, the Corn Refiners Association asked the Food and Drug Administration if it could start using the term "corn sugar" as an alternative to high fructose corn syrup.
- However, in spite of this difference in quality, color, and season, all kinds of corn used as a vegetable are called _green corn_ and may be prepared in exactly the same ways.
- When the wind sweeps over the corn they say at Conitz, in West Prussia, The Steer is running in the corn; when the corn is thick and strong in one spot, they say in some parts of East Prussia, The Bull is lying in the corn.