Meaning

5 senses

  1. (Canada, US, transitive)To granulate; to form (a substance) into grains.

    to corn gunpowder

  2. (Canada, US, transitive)To preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef.

    preserve with large-grained rock salt

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

    Corn the horses.

    feed (cattle) with corn

  4. (Jamaica, Multicultural London English, slang, transitive)To shoot up with bullets as by a shotgun (corn).

  5. (obsolete, transitive)To render intoxicated.

    ale strong enough to corn one

Examples

236 sentences

  1. I'm allergic to corn.

    В мене алергія на кукурудзу. — deniko

    ruУ меня аллергия на кукурузу. — marafon

    deIch habe eine Maisallergie. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  2. Bourbon is made from corn.

    Бурбон виготовляють із зерна. — sadxaka

    ruБурбон производят из зерна. — vilnat

    deBourbon wird aus Mais gemacht. — jast

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  3. Tom still hasn't planted the corn.

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  4. Tom bought a bushel of corn.

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  5. I spent all day planting corn.

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Translations

1 languages

Origin

Inherited from Middle English corn, from Old English corn, from Proto-West Germanic *korn,

Inherited from Middle English corn, from Old English corn, from Proto-West Germanic *korn, from Proto-Germanic *kurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain; worn-down”), from *ǵerh₂- (“grow old, mature”).

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Forms

corns, corning, corned, corned
Base formcorn · to corn
3rd person singularcorns
Present participlecorning
Past simplecorned
Past participlecorned

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycorn
he, she, itcorns

Past simpleLesson

all personscorned

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave corned
he, she, ithas corned

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill corn

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
corkscrewcormorantcornbreadcornerA1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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