Cornfield
noun
A field where corn is grown.
The farmer was working hard in the cornfield.
Often appears as...
- tall cornfield
- vast cornfield
noun
A field where corn is grown.
The farmer was working hard in the cornfield.
Often appears as...
- tall cornfield
- vast cornfield
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Pro Tip 1/3Agricultural Setting
Used to describe rural farmland areas, usually vast and open spaces.
Driving past, we saw several cornfields stretching out to the horizon.
Pro Tip 2/3Seasonal Imagery
Evokes specific seasons; think of summer and early autumn, when corn is tall and ready for harvest.
Children ran playfully through the golden cornfield in late summer.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Symbol
Can symbolize traditional American rural life, especially in the Midwest.
The artist's painting featured a classic barn with a vast cornfield in the foreground.
Pro Tip 1/3Agricultural Setting
Used to describe rural farmland areas, usually vast and open spaces.
Driving past, we saw several cornfields stretching out to the horizon.
Pro Tip 2/3Seasonal Imagery
Evokes specific seasons; think of summer and early autumn, when corn is tall and ready for harvest.
Children ran playfully through the golden cornfield in late summer.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Symbol
Can symbolize traditional American rural life, especially in the Midwest.
The artist's painting featured a classic barn with a vast cornfield in the foreground.
Pro Tip 1/3Agricultural Setting
Used to describe rural farmland areas, usually vast and open spaces.
Driving past, we saw several cornfields stretching out to the horizon.
Pro Tip 2/3Seasonal Imagery
Evokes specific seasons; think of summer and early autumn, when corn is tall and ready for harvest.
Children ran playfully through the golden cornfield in late summer.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Symbol
Can symbolize traditional American rural life, especially in the Midwest.
The artist's painting featured a classic barn with a vast cornfield in the foreground.
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Thousands of Cranes Take...
feeding areas in the cornfields they're usually they're gone before we put a seed in the ground so we really co-exist pretty well and for the cranes it's a breakfast buffet all day all day all you can eat buffet the cranes have adapted to where is the grain is very important to their diet
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Underwater Cave Diving:...
But, when we came out and we came out with Ian's body the Mazatec village... and I'll never forget this and I'm still forever grateful. They had carved out steps in the cornfields and the whole village came in and accompanied us out. And we went right into the local, small cathedral.
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Photographer Jimmy Chin:...
drops it's a river valley so the hill that drops from where the cornfields start into the river valley that's that was my ski hill and basically like if I did well in school I got to go skiing and I kind of always knew that I had this you know I had this
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Volcanic eruption...
thought he heard thunder coming from his cornfield. However, the sound wasn’t coming from the sky. The source was a large, smoking crack emitting gas and ejecting rocks. This fissure would come to be known as the volcano Paricutin,
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Rediscovering Glen...
lot of them you know had their orchards they had cornfields along the river and then to top it all off they had homes along the river you know a lot of families that that grew up in that area it was very devastating to have to have
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How we're using drones...
Do you guys want to see how it works? Yes. All right. Nobody believes me, so ... better to show. This is our distribution center, which is about 20 kilometers outside of Kigali. This actually used to be a cornfield nine months ago,
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We can reprogram life....
You will never, under any scenario, walk through a virgin forest and see the same plant growing in orderly rows at the same time, nothing else living there. When you do a cornfield, you're selecting what lives and what dies.
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How to Create Your Own...
the monarch to me is sort of like the canary in the cornfield I think this monarch is kind of a warning signal the most common butterfly probably in the world over a period of twenty years it's associated with this rapidly
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The Aztecs: From Empire...
was the most important town for the merchants in the area the nawa men dressed in white cotton trousers and shirts and the women wore these blouses embroidered with mythological figures when they worked in the cornfields
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The history of the world...
while the remaining 60% supports consumer good industries worldwide. Yet the spread of this wonder-crop has come at a price. Global water sources are polluted by excess ammonium nitrate from cornfields.
Video examples
Thousands of Cranes Take...
feeding areas in the cornfields they're usually they're gone before we put a seed in the ground so we really co-exist pretty well and for the cranes it's a breakfast buffet all day all day all you can eat buffet the cranes have adapted to where is the grain is very important to their diet
Video examples
Underwater Cave Diving:...
But, when we came out and we came out with Ian's body the Mazatec village... and I'll never forget this and I'm still forever grateful. They had carved out steps in the cornfields and the whole village came in and accompanied us out. And we went right into the local, small cathedral.
Video examples
Photographer Jimmy Chin:...
drops it's a river valley so the hill that drops from where the cornfields start into the river valley that's that was my ski hill and basically like if I did well in school I got to go skiing and I kind of always knew that I had this you know I had this
Video examples
Volcanic eruption...
thought he heard thunder coming from his cornfield. However, the sound wasn’t coming from the sky. The source was a large, smoking crack emitting gas and ejecting rocks. This fissure would come to be known as the volcano Paricutin,
Video examples
Rediscovering Glen...
lot of them you know had their orchards they had cornfields along the river and then to top it all off they had homes along the river you know a lot of families that that grew up in that area it was very devastating to have to have
Video examples
How we're using drones...
Do you guys want to see how it works? Yes. All right. Nobody believes me, so ... better to show. This is our distribution center, which is about 20 kilometers outside of Kigali. This actually used to be a cornfield nine months ago,
Video examples
We can reprogram life....
You will never, under any scenario, walk through a virgin forest and see the same plant growing in orderly rows at the same time, nothing else living there. When you do a cornfield, you're selecting what lives and what dies.
Video examples
How to Create Your Own...
the monarch to me is sort of like the canary in the cornfield I think this monarch is kind of a warning signal the most common butterfly probably in the world over a period of twenty years it's associated with this rapidly
Video examples
The Aztecs: From Empire...
was the most important town for the merchants in the area the nawa men dressed in white cotton trousers and shirts and the women wore these blouses embroidered with mythological figures when they worked in the cornfields
Video examples
The history of the world...
while the remaining 60% supports consumer good industries worldwide. Yet the spread of this wonder-crop has come at a price. Global water sources are polluted by excess ammonium nitrate from cornfields.
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Irving Stone
American Writer
I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was cared for when he cut off his ear. I lived in the jail cell where he stayed. And I looked out the window. You remember that picture of the cornfields through the bars? That was what I saw.
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Billy Collins
American Poet
Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.
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Erin Brockovich
American Activist
I was born and raised in Kansas. The worst things are the locusts, mosquitos, the flatness, the humidity. The greatest things are the simplicity of life, watching the thunderheads building on the horizon, and running through cornfields.
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Jason Momoa
American Actor
Being raised in Iowa, I know what a cornfield does for me, and I wanted to have that same kind of feeling for the Ramapo Mountains.
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Mike Pence
American Vice President
I'm a small-town kid who grew up with a cornfield in the back yard and dreaming of serving my country in public office.
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John Lithgow
American Actor
I look on myself as a sort of hybrid, having grown up in the world of Shakespeare out in the cornfields of Ohio.
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Becca Fitzpatrick
American Author
My first job entailed spending a summer working in a cornfield in Nebraska.
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Molly Bloom
American Author
I lived across from a cornfield when I was growing up.
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Lucas Cruikshank
American Comedian
My house is surrounded on three sides by cornfields.
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Jaime Harrison
American Politician
I've worked cornfields.
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Irving Stone
American Writer
I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was cared for when he cut off his ear. I lived in the jail cell where he stayed. And I looked out the window. You remember that picture of the cornfields through the bars? That was what I saw.
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Billy Collins
American Poet
Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.
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Erin Brockovich
American Activist
I was born and raised in Kansas. The worst things are the locusts, mosquitos, the flatness, the humidity. The greatest things are the simplicity of life, watching the thunderheads building on the horizon, and running through cornfields.
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Jason Momoa
American Actor
Being raised in Iowa, I know what a cornfield does for me, and I wanted to have that same kind of feeling for the Ramapo Mountains.
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Mike Pence
American Vice President
I'm a small-town kid who grew up with a cornfield in the back yard and dreaming of serving my country in public office.
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John Lithgow
American Actor
I look on myself as a sort of hybrid, having grown up in the world of Shakespeare out in the cornfields of Ohio.
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Becca Fitzpatrick
American Author
My first job entailed spending a summer working in a cornfield in Nebraska.
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Molly Bloom
American Author
I lived across from a cornfield when I was growing up.
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Lucas Cruikshank
American Comedian
My house is surrounded on three sides by cornfields.
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Jaime Harrison
American Politician
I've worked cornfields.
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