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noun
- The shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts).
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) A fraud; a scam.
- (slang) A phony.
- (European folklore) A supernatural and generally malevolent black dog in English folklore.
- material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
verb
- (dialectal, of a horse) To walk at a slow trot.
- (transitive, intransitive, slang) To fool; to hoax.
- (dialectal) To shake; shiver.
- (transitive) To remove (any outer covering).
- (dialectal) To do hurriedly or in a restless way.
- (dialectal) To slither or slip, move about, wriggle.
- (computing, slang, transitive) To remove (an external hard drive or solid-state drive) from its casing so that it can be used inside another device.
- (transitive) To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.).
- (dialectal) To avoid; baffle, outwit, shirk.
- remove from the shell
- remove the shucks from
noun
- the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal
- A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop.
- 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
- ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food
- a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes
- whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn
- something sentimental or trite
- (Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region — wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland)
- A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands.
- (Commonwealth, but not Australia or New Zealand, uncountable) Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region.
- A small, hard particle.
- (Jamaica, MLE, slang, firearms, uncountable) Bullets, ammunition, charge and discharge of firearms.
- (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, uncountable) Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.
- (US, Canada) Something (e.g., acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion.
- (Internet, euphemistic) pornography; porn
- (Jamaica, slang, uncountable) Money.
- (veterinary medicine) Skin hyperplasia with underlying fibroma between both digits of cattle.
- (veterinary medicine) An inflammatory disease of a horse's hoof, at the caudal part of the sole.
- (uncountable) A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and refreezing, often in mountain spring conditions.
verb
- preserve with large-grained rock salt
- feed (cattle) with corn
- (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.
- (US, Canada) To granulate; to form (a substance) into grains.
- (Jamaica, MLE, slang) To shoot up with bullets as by a shotgun (corn).
verb
- To remove the kernels from a corncob.
- (Northern UK, colloquial) To throw, chuck, lob.
- To construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent.
- (of growing corn) To have the heads mature into corncobs.
- To beat with a flat instrument; to paddle.
- To chip off unwanted pieces of stone, so as to form a desired shape or improve the quality of mineral ore.
- To break up ground with a hoe.
- To thresh.
noun
- A male swan.
- Any of the gold and silver coins that were minted in the Spanish Empire and valued in reales or escudos, such as the piece of eight—especially those which were crudely struck and irregularly shaped.
- (music, historical) A cylinder with pins in it, encoding music to be played back mechanically by a barrel organ.
- The seed-bearing head of a plant.
- A small fish, the miller's thumb.
- A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, stone, or excrement.
- A spider (cf. cobweb).
- A horse having a stout body and short legs.
- (uncountable) A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe; also called cobb, rammed earth or pisé.
- Alternative form of COB.
- A corncob.
- Abbreviation of cobble.
- A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
- (Midlands) A round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread.
- A large fish, especially the kabeljou (variant spelling of kob).
- (East Anglia) A gull, especially the black-backed gull (Larus marinus); also spelled cobb.
- Clipping of cobnut.
- adult male swan
- white gull having a black back and wings
- stocky short-legged harness horse
- nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus
noun
- grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished
- annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper
- (uncountable) Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.
- (countable) A specific variety of this plant.
- (uncountable, slang, ethnic slur, humorous) The types of automobile modifications characteristic of a rice burner.
- (uncountable) The seeds of this plant used as food.
- (computing, slang) An instance of customization of a user interface.
- (now chiefly, dialectal, Scotland, Ireland) A twig or stick.
verb
- sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice
- (rare) To throw rice at a person (usually at a wedding).
- (computing, transitive) To customize the user interface of a computer system, e.g. a desktop environment. (derived from rice out)
- (intransitive) To harvest wild rice (Zizania spp.)
- (transitive) To squeeze through a ricer; to mash or make into rice-sized pieces (especially potatoes).
noun
- (Northern England, Scotland) A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.)
- (slang) A pipe for smoking methamphetamine.
- (baseball) A rundown.
- (Northern England, Scotland) A small or indefinite quantity or amount (of something); a little, a bit, a few. Usually in partitive construction, frequently without "of"; a single grain or kernel of wheat, barley, oats, sand or dust.
- (chiefly US, Canada, Australia) A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
- (UK) A sweet, vinegary pickled chutney popular in Britain.
- (often in the plural) Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
- In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the lights are mounted.
- (endearing) A mildly mischievous loved one.
- (informal) A difficult situation; peril.
- The brine used for preserving food.
- (uncountable) A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown
- (slang) A penis.
- (metalworking) A bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc., to remove burnt sand, scale, rust, etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their colour.
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- vegetables (especially cucumbers) preserved in brine or vinegar
verb
- (Northern England, Scotland, ambitransitive) To eat sparingly.
- (transitive, ergative) To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
- (transitive) To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
- (Northern England, Scotland, ambitransitive) To pilfer.
- (programming, in Python) To serialize.
- (historical) To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.
- preserve in a pickling liquid
noun
- the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone
- a single whole grain of a cereal
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- (mathematics, category theory, of a morphism f:X→Y in a category with zero morphisms) The equalizer of f and the zero morphism from X to Y, denoted operatorname kerf.
- (botany, US) The stone of certain fruits, such as peaches or plums.
- (botany) A single seed of grain, especially of corn or wheat.
- (computing) The central part of many computer operating systems which manages the system's resources and the communication between hardware and software components.
- (slang) The human clitoris.
- (computing) The core engine of any complex software system.
- (programming) The simplified input to an algorithm that has undergone kernelization.
- A small mass around which other matter is concreted; a nucleus; a concretion or hard lump in the flesh.
- (calculus) A function used to define an integral transform.
- (chemistry) The nucleus and electrons of an atom excluding its valence electrons.
- (botany) The central (usually edible) part of a nut, especially once the hard shell has been removed.
- (mathematics, linear algebra, of a linear transformation f:M→N between modules or vector spaces) The set of elements of M which are mapped to the additive identity 0 of N.
- (mathematics, set theory, of a function f) The set of pairs of elements in the domain of f which are mapped to the same value; the equivalence relation x≡y⟺f(x)=f(y).
- (mathematics, group theory, of a group homomorphism f:G→H between groups) The set of elements of G which are mapped to the identity of H (usually written as 0 in an additive group and as 1 in a multiplicative group).
- (mathematics, fuzzy set theory) The set of members of a fuzzy set that are fully included (i.e., whose grade of membership is 1).
- (mathematics, ring theory, of a ring homomorphism f:R→S between rings) The set of elements of R which are mapped to the additive identity 0 of S.
- (mathematics, category theory) The source of operatorname kerf, denoted operatorname Kerf.
- The core, center, or essence of an object or system.
verb
noun
- the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone
- the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- (uncountable) The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food, or a food designed to replicate its taste and texture (like plant-based meat).
- (sports) The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.).
- (Australian Aboriginal) A totem, or (by metonymy) a clan or clansman which uses it.
- (slang) A meathead.
- (uncountable) Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc.
- (slang, vulgar) A penis.
- (countable) A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance.
- (colloquial) The best or most substantial part of something.
noun
noun
noun
- The edible grain obtained from one of the above plants.
- (originally) Foxtail millet or Italian millet (Setaria italica), the second-most widely grown species of millet.
- (uncountable) Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals; (countable) an instance of this; a fright, a scare.
- (countable, US, originally theater, colloquial) A highly amusing or entertaining performer, performance, or show; a riot, a scream.
- (countable, computing) Ellipsis of kernel panic (“on Unix-derived operating systems: an action taken by the operating system when it cannot recover from a fatal error”); (by extension) any computer system crash.
- (countable, economics, finance) A rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of such prices continuing to decline.
- (by extension) A plant of the genus Panicum, or of similar plants of other genera (especially Echinochloa and Setaria) formerly included within Panicum; panicgrass or panic grass.
- an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
- sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events
adj
verb
- To feel panic, or overwhelming fear or fright; to freak out, to lose one's head.
- To cause (someone) to feel panic (“overwhelming fear or fright”); also, to frighten (someone) into acting hastily.
- (computing) To cause (a computer system) to crash.
- (US, colloquial) To highly amuse, entertain, or impress (an audience watching a performance or show).
- (computing) Of a computer system: to crash.
- be overcome by a sudden fear
- cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic
noun
- foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
- grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat, rice, rye, oats, maize, buckwheat, millet
- a breakfast food prepared from grain
- (uncountable) Breakfast cereal.
- (countable) A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains.
- (uncountable) The grains of such a grass.
adj
noun
- foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
- the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance)
- the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric
- the smallest possible unit of anything
- a cereal grass
- a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat
- 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams
- the side of leather from which the hair has been removed
- dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
- a relatively small granular particle of a substance
- 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams
- Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
- The metric, carat, or pearl grain of ¹⁄₄ carat used for measuring precious stones and pearls, now exactly 50 mg.
- An iron fish spear or harpoon, with a number of points half-barbed inwardly.
- (uncountable) A linear texture of a material or surface.
- (countable, uncountable) The crops from which grain is harvested.
- (photography, videography) Visual texture in processed photographic film due to the presence of small particles of a metallic silver, or dye clouds, developed from silver halide that have received enough photons.
- One of the branches of a valley or river.
- (botany) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock.
- (in the plural) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum.
- (historical) The French grain of ¹⁄₉₂₁₆ livre, equivalent to 53.11 mg at metricization and equal to exactly 54.25 mg from 1812–1839 as part of the mesures usuelles.
- (countable) A single particle of a substance.
- (dialectal, anatomy) The fangs of a tooth.
- (materials) A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
- (countable) A single seed of grass food crops.
- (dialectal, anatomy) The groin; crotch.
- A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant; an offshoot.
- (countable, chiefly historical) Any of various small units of length originally notionally based on a grain's width, variously standardized at different places and times.
- (uncountable) The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
- The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
- (dialectal) A fork in a river valley or ravine.
- A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
- (founding) A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core.
- (uncountable) Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
- (countable, historical) The carat grain of ¹⁄₄ carat as a measure of gold purity, creating a 96-point scale between 0% and 100% purity.
- An arm of a cross.
- A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple.
- (dialectal) The branch of a family; clan.
- (astronautics) The solid piece of fuel in an individual solid-fuel rocket engine.
- The English grain of ¹⁄₅₇₆₀ troy pound or ¹⁄₇₀₀₀ pound avoirdupois, now exactly 64.79891 mg.
- (dialectal) A branch or arm of a stream, inlet, or sea.
verb
- paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood
- thoroughly work in
- become granular
- form into grains
- (transitive) To make granular; to form into grains.
- (transitive) To feed grain to.
- To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
- (tanning) To soften leather.
- To yield fruit.
- (tanning) To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
- (intransitive) To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
noun
- (nutrition, countable) Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.
- (uncountable) Fortitude.
- (countable) Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener.
- (uncountable) A stiff, formal manner; formality.
- (uncountable) A widely diffused vegetable substance, found in seeds, bulbs and tubers, as extracted (e.g. from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) in the form of a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a very peculiar creaking sound when rubbed between the fingers. It is used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc.
- a complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice; an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textiles
- a commercial preparation of starch that is used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering
adj
verb
noun
- (rare) The woody, thick skin enclosing the kernel of a walnut.
- (by extension) Enthusiasm; keen enjoyment; relish; gusto. A state of being zesty.
- General vibrance of flavour.
- The outer skin of a citrus fruit, used as a flavouring or garnish.
- (slang, LGBTQ, derogatory) State of being a flamboyant or effeminate homosexual.
- vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment
- a tart spicy quality
verb
noun
- A type of maize/corn with a relatively soft outer hull, and a soft type of starch that shrinks at maturity to leave an indentation in the surface of the kernel.
- (weaving) A slot or a wire in a reed
- (by extension, informal) A sudden negative change, such as loss, damage, weakening, consumption or diminution, especially one produced by an external force, event or action
- (engineering) A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.
- A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact.
- (figurative) A minor effect made upon something.
- an appreciable consequence (especially a lessening)
- a depression scratched or carved into a surface
- an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
verb
noun
- coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse
- any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times
- the food served and eaten at one time
- Any of various similarly granular materials prepared from other sources, such as bones or wood.
- (countable) Food served or eaten as a repast.
- The ground-up edible part of various grains, used as a basis of food or feed; either flour or a coarser blend than flour (usage varies).
- (UK dialectal) A speck or spot.
- A part; a fragment; a portion.
- Any of various other granular or powdery materials, either ground by humans or occurring in nature, named figuratively after a resemblance to grain meal.
- (uncountable, informal) A break taken by a police officer in order to eat.
- (countable) Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity.
verb
noun
- The shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts).
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) A fraud; a scam.
- (slang) A phony.
- (European folklore) A supernatural and generally malevolent black dog in English folklore.
- material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
verb
- (dialectal, of a horse) To walk at a slow trot.
- (transitive, intransitive, slang) To fool; to hoax.
- (dialectal) To shake; shiver.
- (transitive) To remove (any outer covering).
- (dialectal) To do hurriedly or in a restless way.
- (dialectal) To slither or slip, move about, wriggle.
- (computing, slang, transitive) To remove (an external hard drive or solid-state drive) from its casing so that it can be used inside another device.
- (transitive) To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.).
- (dialectal) To avoid; baffle, outwit, shirk.
- remove from the shell
- remove the shucks from
noun
- the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal
- A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop.
- 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
- ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food
- a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes
- whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn
- something sentimental or trite
- (Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region — wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland)
- A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands.
- (Commonwealth, but not Australia or New Zealand, uncountable) Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region.
- A small, hard particle.
- (Jamaica, MLE, slang, firearms, uncountable) Bullets, ammunition, charge and discharge of firearms.
- (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, uncountable) Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.
- (US, Canada) Something (e.g., acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion.
- (Internet, euphemistic) pornography; porn
- (Jamaica, slang, uncountable) Money.
- (veterinary medicine) Skin hyperplasia with underlying fibroma between both digits of cattle.
- (veterinary medicine) An inflammatory disease of a horse's hoof, at the caudal part of the sole.
- (uncountable) A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and refreezing, often in mountain spring conditions.
verb
- preserve with large-grained rock salt
- feed (cattle) with corn
- (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.
- (US, Canada) To granulate; to form (a substance) into grains.
- (Jamaica, MLE, slang) To shoot up with bullets as by a shotgun (corn).
noun
- grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished
- annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper
- (uncountable) Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.
- (countable) A specific variety of this plant.
- (uncountable, slang, ethnic slur, humorous) The types of automobile modifications characteristic of a rice burner.
- (uncountable) The seeds of this plant used as food.
- (computing, slang) An instance of customization of a user interface.
- (now chiefly, dialectal, Scotland, Ireland) A twig or stick.
verb
- sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice
- (rare) To throw rice at a person (usually at a wedding).
- (computing, transitive) To customize the user interface of a computer system, e.g. a desktop environment. (derived from rice out)
- (intransitive) To harvest wild rice (Zizania spp.)
- (transitive) To squeeze through a ricer; to mash or make into rice-sized pieces (especially potatoes).
noun
- (Northern England, Scotland) A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.)
- (slang) A pipe for smoking methamphetamine.
- (baseball) A rundown.
- (Northern England, Scotland) A small or indefinite quantity or amount (of something); a little, a bit, a few. Usually in partitive construction, frequently without "of"; a single grain or kernel of wheat, barley, oats, sand or dust.
- (chiefly US, Canada, Australia) A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
- (UK) A sweet, vinegary pickled chutney popular in Britain.
- (often in the plural) Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
- In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the lights are mounted.
- (endearing) A mildly mischievous loved one.
- (informal) A difficult situation; peril.
- The brine used for preserving food.
- (uncountable) A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown
- (slang) A penis.
- (metalworking) A bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc., to remove burnt sand, scale, rust, etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their colour.
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- vegetables (especially cucumbers) preserved in brine or vinegar
verb
- (Northern England, Scotland, ambitransitive) To eat sparingly.
- (transitive, ergative) To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
- (transitive) To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
- (Northern England, Scotland, ambitransitive) To pilfer.
- (programming, in Python) To serialize.
- (historical) To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.
- preserve in a pickling liquid
noun
- the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone
- a single whole grain of a cereal
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- (mathematics, category theory, of a morphism f:X→Y in a category with zero morphisms) The equalizer of f and the zero morphism from X to Y, denoted operatorname kerf.
- (botany, US) The stone of certain fruits, such as peaches or plums.
- (botany) A single seed of grain, especially of corn or wheat.
- (computing) The central part of many computer operating systems which manages the system's resources and the communication between hardware and software components.
- (slang) The human clitoris.
- (computing) The core engine of any complex software system.
- (programming) The simplified input to an algorithm that has undergone kernelization.
- A small mass around which other matter is concreted; a nucleus; a concretion or hard lump in the flesh.
- (calculus) A function used to define an integral transform.
- (chemistry) The nucleus and electrons of an atom excluding its valence electrons.
- (botany) The central (usually edible) part of a nut, especially once the hard shell has been removed.
- (mathematics, linear algebra, of a linear transformation f:M→N between modules or vector spaces) The set of elements of M which are mapped to the additive identity 0 of N.
- (mathematics, set theory, of a function f) The set of pairs of elements in the domain of f which are mapped to the same value; the equivalence relation x≡y⟺f(x)=f(y).
- (mathematics, group theory, of a group homomorphism f:G→H between groups) The set of elements of G which are mapped to the identity of H (usually written as 0 in an additive group and as 1 in a multiplicative group).
- (mathematics, fuzzy set theory) The set of members of a fuzzy set that are fully included (i.e., whose grade of membership is 1).
- (mathematics, ring theory, of a ring homomorphism f:R→S between rings) The set of elements of R which are mapped to the additive identity 0 of S.
- (mathematics, category theory) The source of operatorname kerf, denoted operatorname Kerf.
- The core, center, or essence of an object or system.
verb
noun
- the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone
- the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- (uncountable) The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food, or a food designed to replicate its taste and texture (like plant-based meat).
- (sports) The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.).
- (Australian Aboriginal) A totem, or (by metonymy) a clan or clansman which uses it.
- (slang) A meathead.
- (uncountable) Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc.
- (slang, vulgar) A penis.
- (countable) A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance.
- (colloquial) The best or most substantial part of something.
noun
noun
noun
- The edible grain obtained from one of the above plants.
- (originally) Foxtail millet or Italian millet (Setaria italica), the second-most widely grown species of millet.
- (uncountable) Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals; (countable) an instance of this; a fright, a scare.
- (countable, US, originally theater, colloquial) A highly amusing or entertaining performer, performance, or show; a riot, a scream.
- (countable, computing) Ellipsis of kernel panic (“on Unix-derived operating systems: an action taken by the operating system when it cannot recover from a fatal error”); (by extension) any computer system crash.
- (countable, economics, finance) A rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of such prices continuing to decline.
- (by extension) A plant of the genus Panicum, or of similar plants of other genera (especially Echinochloa and Setaria) formerly included within Panicum; panicgrass or panic grass.
- an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
- sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events
adj
verb
- To feel panic, or overwhelming fear or fright; to freak out, to lose one's head.
- To cause (someone) to feel panic (“overwhelming fear or fright”); also, to frighten (someone) into acting hastily.
- (computing) To cause (a computer system) to crash.
- (US, colloquial) To highly amuse, entertain, or impress (an audience watching a performance or show).
- (computing) Of a computer system: to crash.
- be overcome by a sudden fear
- cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic
noun
- foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
- grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat, rice, rye, oats, maize, buckwheat, millet
- a breakfast food prepared from grain
- (uncountable) Breakfast cereal.
- (countable) A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains.
- (uncountable) The grains of such a grass.
adj
noun
- foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
- the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance)
- the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric
- the smallest possible unit of anything
- a cereal grass
- a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat
- 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams
- the side of leather from which the hair has been removed
- dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
- a relatively small granular particle of a substance
- 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams
- Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
- The metric, carat, or pearl grain of ¹⁄₄ carat used for measuring precious stones and pearls, now exactly 50 mg.
- An iron fish spear or harpoon, with a number of points half-barbed inwardly.
- (uncountable) A linear texture of a material or surface.
- (countable, uncountable) The crops from which grain is harvested.
- (photography, videography) Visual texture in processed photographic film due to the presence of small particles of a metallic silver, or dye clouds, developed from silver halide that have received enough photons.
- One of the branches of a valley or river.
- (botany) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock.
- (in the plural) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum.
- (historical) The French grain of ¹⁄₉₂₁₆ livre, equivalent to 53.11 mg at metricization and equal to exactly 54.25 mg from 1812–1839 as part of the mesures usuelles.
- (countable) A single particle of a substance.
- (dialectal, anatomy) The fangs of a tooth.
- (materials) A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
- (countable) A single seed of grass food crops.
- (dialectal, anatomy) The groin; crotch.
- A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant; an offshoot.
- (countable, chiefly historical) Any of various small units of length originally notionally based on a grain's width, variously standardized at different places and times.
- (uncountable) The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
- The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
- (dialectal) A fork in a river valley or ravine.
- A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
- (founding) A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core.
- (uncountable) Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
- (countable, historical) The carat grain of ¹⁄₄ carat as a measure of gold purity, creating a 96-point scale between 0% and 100% purity.
- An arm of a cross.
- A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple.
- (dialectal) The branch of a family; clan.
- (astronautics) The solid piece of fuel in an individual solid-fuel rocket engine.
- The English grain of ¹⁄₅₇₆₀ troy pound or ¹⁄₇₀₀₀ pound avoirdupois, now exactly 64.79891 mg.
- (dialectal) A branch or arm of a stream, inlet, or sea.
verb
- paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood
- thoroughly work in
- become granular
- form into grains
- (transitive) To make granular; to form into grains.
- (transitive) To feed grain to.
- To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
- (tanning) To soften leather.
- To yield fruit.
- (tanning) To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
- (intransitive) To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
noun
- (nutrition, countable) Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.
- (uncountable) Fortitude.
- (countable) Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener.
- (uncountable) A stiff, formal manner; formality.
- (uncountable) A widely diffused vegetable substance, found in seeds, bulbs and tubers, as extracted (e.g. from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) in the form of a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a very peculiar creaking sound when rubbed between the fingers. It is used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc.
- a complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice; an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textiles
- a commercial preparation of starch that is used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering
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verb
noun
- (rare) The woody, thick skin enclosing the kernel of a walnut.
- (by extension) Enthusiasm; keen enjoyment; relish; gusto. A state of being zesty.
- General vibrance of flavour.
- The outer skin of a citrus fruit, used as a flavouring or garnish.
- (slang, LGBTQ, derogatory) State of being a flamboyant or effeminate homosexual.
- vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment
- a tart spicy quality
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noun
- A type of maize/corn with a relatively soft outer hull, and a soft type of starch that shrinks at maturity to leave an indentation in the surface of the kernel.
- (weaving) A slot or a wire in a reed
- (by extension, informal) A sudden negative change, such as loss, damage, weakening, consumption or diminution, especially one produced by an external force, event or action
- (engineering) A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.
- A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact.
- (figurative) A minor effect made upon something.
- an appreciable consequence (especially a lessening)
- a depression scratched or carved into a surface
- an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
verb
noun
- coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse
- any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times
- the food served and eaten at one time
- Any of various similarly granular materials prepared from other sources, such as bones or wood.
- (countable) Food served or eaten as a repast.
- The ground-up edible part of various grains, used as a basis of food or feed; either flour or a coarser blend than flour (usage varies).
- (UK dialectal) A speck or spot.
- A part; a fragment; a portion.
- Any of various other granular or powdery materials, either ground by humans or occurring in nature, named figuratively after a resemblance to grain meal.
- (uncountable, informal) A break taken by a police officer in order to eat.
- (countable) Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity.
verb
verb
- To remove the kernels from a corncob.
- (Northern UK, colloquial) To throw, chuck, lob.
- To construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent.
- (of growing corn) To have the heads mature into corncobs.
- To beat with a flat instrument; to paddle.
- To chip off unwanted pieces of stone, so as to form a desired shape or improve the quality of mineral ore.
- To break up ground with a hoe.
- To thresh.
noun
- A male swan.
- Any of the gold and silver coins that were minted in the Spanish Empire and valued in reales or escudos, such as the piece of eight—especially those which were crudely struck and irregularly shaped.
- (music, historical) A cylinder with pins in it, encoding music to be played back mechanically by a barrel organ.
- The seed-bearing head of a plant.
- A small fish, the miller's thumb.
- A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, stone, or excrement.
- A spider (cf. cobweb).
- A horse having a stout body and short legs.
- (uncountable) A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe; also called cobb, rammed earth or pisé.
- Alternative form of COB.
- A corncob.
- Abbreviation of cobble.
- A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
- (Midlands) A round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread.
- A large fish, especially the kabeljou (variant spelling of kob).
- (East Anglia) A gull, especially the black-backed gull (Larus marinus); also spelled cobb.
- Clipping of cobnut.
- adult male swan
- white gull having a black back and wings
- stocky short-legged harness horse
- nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus
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