Pronunciations (3)
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/ˈkɔːn/
Pronunciation notes
- Received-Pronunciation
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/ˈkɔɹn/
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- Canada
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/ˈkoːn/
Pronunciation notes
- Australia
Noun
Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region.
Usage- Commonwealth usage
- Uncountable
- usually
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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.
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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.
Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.
Usage- Australia
- Canada
- New-Zealand
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- Uncountable
- usually
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The planting or sowing of maize, exclusively called corn, was just accomplished on the Town Hill, when I reached it.
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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.
A single seed of a food crop, especially a cereal grass crop.
Usage- Uncountable
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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.
A small, hard particle.
Usage- Uncountable
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The least corn of sand is not so small to the whole earth, as man is to the heaven:[…]
corns of powder
A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and refreezing, often in mountain spring conditions.
Usage- Uncountable
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Bullets, ammunition, and charge and discharge of firearms.
Usage- Jamaica
- Multicultural-London-English
- Slang
- Uncountable
- usually
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R.I.P Scumpy ah you did say Popcaan And if a boy diss we clap corn.
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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
Money.
Usage- Jamaica
- Slang
- Uncountable
- usually
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You know dem have wedge while we have corn. Say Cockney say be first, my son! We just say Gwan!
Verb
To granulate; to form (a substance) into grains.
Usage- Canada
- US usage
- Transitive
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to corn gunpowder
To preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef.
Usage- Canada
- US usage
- Transitive
To provide (an animal) with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed.
Usage- Canada
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Corn the horses.
To render intoxicated.
Usage- Obsolete
- Transitive
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ale strong enough to corn one
To shoot up with bullets as by a shotgun (corn).
Usage- Jamaica
- Multicultural-London-English
- Slang
- Transitive
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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?
Noun
A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands.
Usage- Transitive
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Welcome Gentlemen, / Ladies that haue their toes / Vnplagu’d with Cornes, will walke about with you:[…]
An inflammatory disease of a horse's hoof, at the caudal part of the sole.
Usage- Transitive
Skin hyperplasia with underlying fibroma between both digits of cattle.
Usage- Transitive
Noun
Something (e.g., acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion.
Usage- Canada
- US usage
- Transitive
- Uncountable
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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.
Noun
pornography; porn
Usage- Internet
- euphemistic
- Transitive
- Uncountable
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
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the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal
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ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food
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a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes
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(Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region — wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland)
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whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn
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something sentimental or trite
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that movie was pure corn
Verb
feed (cattle) with corn
preserve with large-grained rock salt
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corned beef