corn
(kɔːʳn )
Word forms: corns
1. uncountable noun B1+ regional note: in AM, use grain
Corn is used to refer to crops such as wheat and barley. It can also be used to refer to the seeds from these plants. [British]
...fields of corn.
He filled the barn to the roof with corn.
2. uncountable noun B1+
Corn is the same as maize.
...rows of corn in an Iowa field.
3. countable noun [usually plural]
Corns are small, painful areas of hard skin which can form on your foot, especially near your toes.
4. See also popcorn, sweetcorn
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Idioms:
earn your corn [British]
to be successful and therefore justify the money that has been spent, for example on training
The back four got us through the match. They earned their corn against Middlesbrough and that's why we came off with a win.
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seed corn
resources or people that will produce benefits in the future rather than immediately
I regard the teachers as the people who are planting the seed corn for the future and therefore I regard their work as crucially important.
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Collocations:
corn crop corn farm corn farmer corn harvest corn husk corn stalks kernel of corn
The bad weather has also hurt the corn crop, which has driven up inflation.
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But the dry spell didn't affect the corn crop because it had already peaked.
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A bull was jailed in the same town last year for destroying a corn crop.
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In 2008, drought destroyed much of the corn crop.
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Losses to the corn crop were increased since the ground in the area was already highly saturated.
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They become fast friends and grow a corn farm together.
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The value of each and every corn farm varies from location to location, depending on the amount of bushels produced and the quality of corn.
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Agriculture consists of coffee plantations and small corn farms.
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Over the 1990s, extensive soy and corn farms occupied much of the farming land available.
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Out of 316,000 corn farms about 300,000 farms (95% of them) are owned by families.
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Corn farmers have struggled to make a profit, surviving on subsidies during a decade of low prices.
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The residents, corn farmers, have an average per capita annual income of $160.
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In order for corn farmers to generate any profit, they basically take whatever price they can get for their crop.
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Unfortunately, commodity corn farmers have little control over the price they receive for their product.
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This encouraged corn farmers to grow as much as possible and to sell their crop at any price.
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In 2010, the researchers noted that 38 incidents had occurred during 2009, when the national corn harvest set a new record.
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That year, people lost their vital corn harvest as these pests were around for many days.
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In a primitive agricultural economy savings might take the form of holding back the best of the corn harvest as seed corn for the next planting season.
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The sorghum and corn harvests comprise less than 10% of the annual requirement of 250,000 tons.
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There are certain varieties, such as tamalos, that are made of a sweet corn masa wrapped in a corn husk or leaf.
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The practice was to roll, by hand, a compound of tobacco, cloves and cocoa in a dry corn husk wrap, which gives a honeyed flavour.
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Examples would be alfalfa, corn husk, and, more recently, paper mill fibers.
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Tamales consist of corn dough, often containing a filling, that are wrapped in a corn husk and steam-cooked.
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Maize, rice, wheat, cassava, corn husk and sago are all used in various parts of the world.
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The new process uses enzymes to break down tougher material, such as the heavy corn stalks.
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They contain 5ft corn stalks that have been dubbed 'fair cobs'.
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Do corn stalks cut after sunset really run red with blood?
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The corn stalks functioned as a support for the beans.
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They lived there in a one-roomed mud house thatched with corn stalks.
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You take a kernel of corn, and put it in the ground.
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The buds, when ready to pick, are a dark olive green and about the size of a fresh kernel of corn.
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The corn game used five to seven kernels of corn.
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Translations:
Chinese: 谷物
Japanese: 穀草