Corn
noun
A popular type of grain that is often yellow and has a hard outer layer.
We had grilled corn for dinner.
Often appears as...
- corn on the cob
- popcorn
noun
In British-English, the general term for cereal crops, such as wheat, or oats.
We saw fields of corn during our trip to the countryside.
Often appears as...
- corn field
- corn harvest
noun
A small hard area of skin on the foot that has been caused by pressure or rubbing.
She went to the podiatrist to have her corn removed.
Often appears as...
- foot corn
- corn removal
verb
To preserve or season (food) in a solution of salt and nitrates.
She corned the beef for St. Patrick’s day.
Often appears as...
- corned beef
- corn the meat
noun
A popular type of grain that is often yellow and has a hard outer layer.
We had grilled corn for dinner.
Often appears as...
- corn on the cob
- popcorn
noun
In British-English, the general term for cereal crops, such as wheat, or oats.
We saw fields of corn during our trip to the countryside.
Often appears as...
- corn field
- corn harvest
noun
A small hard area of skin on the foot that has been caused by pressure or rubbing.
She went to the podiatrist to have her corn removed.
Often appears as...
- foot corn
- corn removal
verb
To preserve or season (food) in a solution of salt and nitrates.
She corned the beef for St. Patrick’s day.
Often appears as...
- corned beef
- corn the meat
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Pro Tip 1/3Food Staple
Corn is a staple food around the world and can be found in many dishes.
She made a rich corn chowder.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Symbol
In many cultures, especially Native American, corn is a symbol of life and fertility.
The festival featured a corn dance.
Pro Tip 3/3Processing Forms
Corn can be processed into various forms like kernels, flour, and oil.
Corn oil is great for frying.
Pro Tip 1/3Food Staple
Corn is a staple food around the world and can be found in many dishes.
She made a rich corn chowder.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Symbol
In many cultures, especially Native American, corn is a symbol of life and fertility.
The festival featured a corn dance.
Pro Tip 3/3Processing Forms
Corn can be processed into various forms like kernels, flour, and oil.
Corn oil is great for frying.
Pro Tip 1/3Food Staple
Corn is a staple food around the world and can be found in many dishes.
She made a rich corn chowder.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Symbol
In many cultures, especially Native American, corn is a symbol of life and fertility.
The festival featured a corn dance.
Pro Tip 3/3Processing Forms
Corn can be processed into various forms like kernels, flour, and oil.
Corn oil is great for frying.
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Why Do Gorillas Have...
root vegetables so sweet potato carrots and then also sweet corn and peppers that sort of thing i think banana would be a very special occasion type of type of treat yeah i think it is more just films and things like that it's so ingrained in your mind as i eat bananas and if they find one they'll eat it but they won't it's not a major part of
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How sugar affects the...
So are high-fructose corn syrup, fruit juice, raw sugar, and honey. And sugar isn't just in candies and desserts, it's also added to tomato sauce, yogurt, dried fruit, flavored waters, or granola bars. Since sugar is everywhere, it's important to understand how it affects the brain. What happens when sugar hits your tongue?
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Jonathan Foley: The...
Instead, we maybe want to freeze the footprint of agriculture and farm the lands we have better. This is work that we're doing to try to highlight places in the world where we could improve yields without harming the environment. The green areas here show where corn yields, just showing corn as an example,
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6 ways mushrooms can...
You could take a cardboard box delivering shoes, you could add water -- I developed this for the refugee community -- corns, beans and squash and onions. I took several containers -- my wife said, if I could do this, anybody could -- and I ended up growing a seed garden. Then you harvest the seeds --
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We Are What We Eat:...
and introduced them to cultivation, to agriculture. And so they grow a lot of plantain and banana a bit of rice as well. And corn, which is originally from that part of the world. And they do "slash and burn" agriculture. They burn, they grow right next to their settlement.
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The strange case of the...
So they decided to directly observe the sheep with one scientist even living with the herd for three summers. After a decade of trial and error, the scientists finally found the culprit, wild corn lilies. The lilies contained an active molecule with six connected rings
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Building social capital...
communication design was born to sell products and designing for large corporations can help a creative person pay her bills but I want to bring people together around more than bubbly corn syrup drinks let's expand the purpose of communication design to benefit our
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The basics of the Higgs...
although many others contributed to the idea. It isn't a field, like where you grow corn, but a hypothetical, invisible kind of force field that pervades the whole universe." "Hmmmm, okay. If it pervades the whole universe, how come I've never seen it?
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Stephen Petranek: 10...
Now, corn originated, we think, in Mexico. This is the genetic biodiversity storehouse of corn. This brings back a skepticism that has gone away recently, that superweeds and superpests could spread around the world,
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The history of the world...
Another wartime technology, the chemical explosive ammonium nitrate, also found new life on the farm. With this new synthetic fertilizer, farmers could plant dense fields of corn year after year,
Video examples
Why Do Gorillas Have...
root vegetables so sweet potato carrots and then also sweet corn and peppers that sort of thing i think banana would be a very special occasion type of type of treat yeah i think it is more just films and things like that it's so ingrained in your mind as i eat bananas and if they find one they'll eat it but they won't it's not a major part of
Video examples
How sugar affects the...
So are high-fructose corn syrup, fruit juice, raw sugar, and honey. And sugar isn't just in candies and desserts, it's also added to tomato sauce, yogurt, dried fruit, flavored waters, or granola bars. Since sugar is everywhere, it's important to understand how it affects the brain. What happens when sugar hits your tongue?
Video examples
Jonathan Foley: The...
Instead, we maybe want to freeze the footprint of agriculture and farm the lands we have better. This is work that we're doing to try to highlight places in the world where we could improve yields without harming the environment. The green areas here show where corn yields, just showing corn as an example,
Video examples
6 ways mushrooms can...
You could take a cardboard box delivering shoes, you could add water -- I developed this for the refugee community -- corns, beans and squash and onions. I took several containers -- my wife said, if I could do this, anybody could -- and I ended up growing a seed garden. Then you harvest the seeds --
Video examples
We Are What We Eat:...
and introduced them to cultivation, to agriculture. And so they grow a lot of plantain and banana a bit of rice as well. And corn, which is originally from that part of the world. And they do "slash and burn" agriculture. They burn, they grow right next to their settlement.
Video examples
The strange case of the...
So they decided to directly observe the sheep with one scientist even living with the herd for three summers. After a decade of trial and error, the scientists finally found the culprit, wild corn lilies. The lilies contained an active molecule with six connected rings
Video examples
Building social capital...
communication design was born to sell products and designing for large corporations can help a creative person pay her bills but I want to bring people together around more than bubbly corn syrup drinks let's expand the purpose of communication design to benefit our
Video examples
The basics of the Higgs...
although many others contributed to the idea. It isn't a field, like where you grow corn, but a hypothetical, invisible kind of force field that pervades the whole universe." "Hmmmm, okay. If it pervades the whole universe, how come I've never seen it?
Video examples
Stephen Petranek: 10...
Now, corn originated, we think, in Mexico. This is the genetic biodiversity storehouse of corn. This brings back a skepticism that has gone away recently, that superweeds and superpests could spread around the world,
Video examples
The history of the world...
Another wartime technology, the chemical explosive ammonium nitrate, also found new life on the farm. With this new synthetic fertilizer, farmers could plant dense fields of corn year after year,
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Raja Krishnamoorthi
American Businessman
The most important thing is to recognize that research is our seed corn. It's a national security priority. It's not just a way to have enough going on that graduate students can do their Ph.D.s and scientists can publish. We have to do research, or we'll fall behind the rest of the world.
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Hope Jahren
American Scientist
Corn occupies a really special role in what I've been calling American agro-economics.
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Mike Leach
American Coach
Oh I've never liked candy corn, I think it's just awful - I think candy corn's awful.
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Joanna Southcott
English Celebrity
The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land.
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Mary Elizabeth Lease
American Writer
Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.
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Peter Navarro
American Economist
Manufacturing is the seed corn for other jobs in the U.S.
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Lewis Black
American Comedian
All the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911.
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William Bernbach
American Businessman
Today's smartest advertising style is tomorrow's corn.
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Michael Pollan
American Educator
Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.
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Bruce Rauner
American Businessman
I'm a lover of fairs and corn dogs.
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Raja Krishnamoorthi
American Businessman
The most important thing is to recognize that research is our seed corn. It's a national security priority. It's not just a way to have enough going on that graduate students can do their Ph.D.s and scientists can publish. We have to do research, or we'll fall behind the rest of the world.
Quote examples
Hope Jahren
American Scientist
Corn occupies a really special role in what I've been calling American agro-economics.
Quote examples
Mike Leach
American Coach
Oh I've never liked candy corn, I think it's just awful - I think candy corn's awful.
Quote examples
Joanna Southcott
English Celebrity
The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land.
Quote examples
Mary Elizabeth Lease
American Writer
Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.
Quote examples
Peter Navarro
American Economist
Manufacturing is the seed corn for other jobs in the U.S.
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Lewis Black
American Comedian
All the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911.
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William Bernbach
American Businessman
Today's smartest advertising style is tomorrow's corn.
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Michael Pollan
American Educator
Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.
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Bruce Rauner
American Businessman
I'm a lover of fairs and corn dogs.
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