corn
part of speech
noun (corn; uncountable; a corncob, ears of corn)
meaning for a pupil
1) In the USA, Canada and Australia, corn is a tall plant with yellow seeds on a cob, also called maize or sweetcorn. tree →
2) In the UK and Ireland, corn can mean any grain crop such as wheat, barley or oats. tree →
3) A corn is a small hard painful patch of skin on the foot. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science and geography lessons, corn is a crop farmers grow, used for food, animal feed and popcorn. In everyday life: corn on the cob, cornflakes, popcorn, cornflour. In history, corn was a key food of Native American peoples. Phrases: «corn on the cob», «field of corn», «sweetcorn», «popcorn».
examples
- We ate corn on the cob with butter at the barbecue. tree →
- The farmer grows corn and beans. tree →
- Popcorn is made from a special kind of corn. tree →
- In the story, the children hid in the tall corn. tree →
- Corn grows in rows in big fields. tree →
- Cornflakes are made from corn. tree →
- Her new shoes gave her a corn on her toe. tree →
- "Who sowed this sort of corn?" tree →
note
Usually uncountable: «some corn», not «a corn» (except the foot sense). The meaning depends on the country: in Britain «corn» can mean wheat; «sweetcorn» or «maize» is the yellow one. In maths, it appears in counting and sharing problems (cobs, rows, kilograms of corn).
In the corpora
- Maize, or corn, is a grass too.
- And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy corn; because the famine was sore in all the earth.
- And he said: 'Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt.
- And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn from Egypt.
- And they laded their asses with their corn, and departed thence.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «corn» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.