oatmeal

«oatmeal» in Mova's school dictionary: Oats that have been crushed or ground, used to make… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (oatmeal — uncountable); adjective (oatmeal — a colour)

meaning for a pupil

1) Oats that have been crushed or ground, used to make porridge, oatcakes and biscuits. tree →

2) (USA, Canada) Hot porridge made from oats. tree →

3) A pale greyish-brown colour, like oats: an oatmeal jumper. tree →

sense in the lessons

Everyday food word: oatmeal for breakfast, oatmeal cookies. In science and health: oats give slow energy and fibre. Colour words in shops: oatmeal carpet. Old stories of Scotland and the north of England mention oatmeal as a main food.

examples

• I eat a bowl of oatmeal before school. tree →
• Gran makes oatmeal cookies with raisins. tree →
• The Scots made oatcakes from oatmeal. tree →
• The sofa is an oatmeal colour. tree →
• Add milk to the oatmeal and stir. tree →
• Oatmeal keeps you full all morning. tree →
• So she baked two oatmeal bannocks, and set them on to the fire to harden. tree →

note

Uncountable: some oatmeal, a bowl of oatmeal. In the UK «porridge» is the cooked dish and «oatmeal» the ground oats; in North America «oatmeal» is used for both.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «oatmeal» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.