corn — قاموس الإنجليزية

اسم

1. Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region.

   الاستعمال

   • استعمال في دول الكومنولث
   • غير معدود
   • usually

   مرادفات

   cerealgrain

   أمثلة

   And hee ſaid, Beholde, I haue heard that there is corne in Egypt: get you downe thither and buy for vs from thence, that we may liue, and not die.

   Among the divinities that dwelt on Mount Olympus, none was more friendly to the husbandman than Demeter, goddess of corn.

   أمثلة إضافية (3)

   Moreover, 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 millenium.

   [T]here exists arguments in favour of regarding one of the eatable varieties of "leaven," Machmetzeth, as the beer of the Hebrews. The mention of beer by the Egyptians is frequent; under the name of Hek, two intoxicating beverages are included. The components of these beers, individually, are not known: one was made from corn, the other was a medicated or sweetened beer, due to the addition of honey, or system of brewing.

   I found that we had nearly a hundred bushels of corn, including wheat, maize, and barley, to add to our store.

2. Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.

   الاستعمال

   • Australia
   • Canada
   • New-Zealand
   • استعمال أمريكي
   • غير معدود
   • usually

   مرادفات

   Indian corn

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   grain

   أمثلة

   The planting or sowing of maize, exclusively called corn, was just accomplished on the Town Hill, when I reached it.

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   Corn was the staff of life for many Indian people before contact, and it became the staff of life for many European colonists. Corn was higher in nutrition than most other grain crops. John Lawson, who travelled in South Carolina and into the interior Indian country in 1701, was one of the many colonists who sang the praises of corn.

3. A single seed of a food crop, especially a cereal grass crop.

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   مرادفات

   grain

   أمثلة

   He paid her the nominal fee of two corns of barley.

   Verely, verely, I ſay vnto you, Except a corne of wheat fall into the ground, and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.

4. A small, hard particle.

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   أمثلة

   The least corn of sand is not so small to the whole earth, as man is to the heaven:[…]

   corns of powder

5. A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and refreezing, often in mountain spring conditions.

   الاستعمال

   • غير معدود
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   مرادفات

   corn snow

6. Bullets, ammunition, and charge and discharge of firearms.

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   • Jamaica
   • Multicultural-London-English
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   أمثلة

   R.I.P Scumpy ah you did say Popcaan And if a boy diss we clap corn.

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   We got spinners and dotties We got .40s and MACs We got nuff live corn […] See the four-door pausing Skengs out, everyone runnin But the corn just slapped and floored em 50 shots in that mop

7. Money.

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   • Jamaica
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   • غير معدود
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   أمثلة

   You know dem have wedge while we have corn. Say Cockney say be first, my son! We just say Gwan!

فعل

1. To granulate; to form (a substance) into grains.

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   • Canada
   • استعمال أمريكي
   • متعدٍ

   أمثلة

   to corn gunpowder

2. To preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef.

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   • Canada
   • استعمال أمريكي
   • متعدٍ

3. To provide (an animal) with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed.

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   • Canada
   • استعمال أمريكي
   • متعدٍ

   أمثلة

   Corn the horses.

4. To render intoxicated.

   الاستعمال

   • مهجور
   • متعدٍ

   أمثلة

   ale strong enough to corn one

5. To shoot up with bullets as by a shotgun (corn).

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   • Jamaica
   • Multicultural-London-English
   • لغة دارجة
   • متعدٍ

   أمثلة

   Anywhere, anytime, I'll get him, if he's in love; I'll corn his wedding He backed his wetter, I backed my wetter but who really held that wetting?

اسم

1. A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands.

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   • متعدٍ

   مرادفات

   clavus

   أمثلة

   Welcome Gentlemen, / Ladies that haue their toes / Vnplagu’d with Cornes, will walke about with you:[…]

2. An inflammatory disease of a horse's hoof, at the caudal part of the sole.

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   • متعدٍ

3. Skin hyperplasia with underlying fibroma between both digits of cattle.

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   • متعدٍ

اسم

1. Something (e.g., acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion.

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   • Canada
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   أمثلة

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   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.

اسم

1. pornography; porn

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   • Internet
   • euphemistic
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اسم

1. 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

   مرادفات

   maizeIndian cornZea mays

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   cerealcereal grass

2. the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   kernel

3. ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food

   مرادفات

   edible corn

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   grainfood graincereal

4. a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes

   مرادفات

   clavus

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   callositycallus

5. (Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region — wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland)

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   cerealcereal grass

6. whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn

   مرادفات

   corn whiskeycorn whisky

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   whiskeywhisky

7. something sentimental or trite

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   mawkishnesssentimentalitydrippinessmushinesssoupinesssloppiness

   أمثلة

   that movie was pure corn

فعل

1. feed (cattle) with corn

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   feedgive

2. preserve with large-grained rock salt

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   preservekeep

   أمثلة

   corned beef