corn

IPA: kˈɔrn

(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

(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).

Examples of "corn" in Sentences

[178-11] The _corn_ is grain of some kind, not our maize or Indian corn.
“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.