Hay
noun
Dried grass that is used for feeding animals.
The cows are eating hay in the barn.
Often appears as...
- make hay
- bale of hay
noun
A plant which has a high degree of silica and is often dried for use as animal food.
The farmer was cutting the hay fields.
Often appears as...
- cut hay
- fresh hay
Usage tips
Agricultural
noun
Worthless stuff, like trash or redundant things.
All this leftover junk in the garage is just a bunch of hay.
Often appears as...
- bunch of hay
- piece of hay
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
verb
To feed animals with hay.
We need to hay the horses before leaving.
Often appears as...
- hay the horses
- hay the cows
Usage tips
Agricultural
noun
Dried grass that is used for feeding animals.
The cows are eating hay in the barn.
Often appears as...
- make hay
- bale of hay
noun
A plant which has a high degree of silica and is often dried for use as animal food.
The farmer was cutting the hay fields.
Often appears as...
- cut hay
- fresh hay
Usage tips
Agricultural
noun
Worthless stuff, like trash or redundant things.
All this leftover junk in the garage is just a bunch of hay.
Often appears as...
- bunch of hay
- piece of hay
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
verb
To feed animals with hay.
We need to hay the horses before leaving.
Often appears as...
- hay the horses
- hay the cows
Usage tips
Agricultural
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Animal Feed
Hay is primarily used to feed domestic farm animals.
In the winter, we store extra hay to feed the livestock.
Pro Tip 2/3Making Hay
'Make hay' can mean to take advantage of a good situation.
We need to make hay while the sun shines and finish our project.
Pro Tip 3/3Common Idioms
Hay is used in expressions like 'to hit the hay,' meaning to go to sleep.
It's been a long day; it's time to hit the hay.
Pro Tip 1/3Animal Feed
Hay is primarily used to feed domestic farm animals.
In the winter, we store extra hay to feed the livestock.
Pro Tip 2/3Making Hay
'Make hay' can mean to take advantage of a good situation.
We need to make hay while the sun shines and finish our project.
Pro Tip 3/3Common Idioms
Hay is used in expressions like 'to hit the hay,' meaning to go to sleep.
It's been a long day; it's time to hit the hay.
Pro Tip 1/3Animal Feed
Hay is primarily used to feed domestic farm animals.
In the winter, we store extra hay to feed the livestock.
Pro Tip 2/3Making Hay
'Make hay' can mean to take advantage of a good situation.
We need to make hay while the sun shines and finish our project.
Pro Tip 3/3Common Idioms
Hay is used in expressions like 'to hit the hay,' meaning to go to sleep.
It's been a long day; it's time to hit the hay.
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How to make discoveries...
produce the best works the whole point is discover important insights insights that can change the way we treat a disease the music you listen to the vacation you take or maybe even the person you might marry there's ways to systematically sort through massive data and apply the principles of pattern recognition where you can turn the problems of finding a needle in a haystack into finding a hay stack of
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My $500 house in Detroit...
showing me Detroit wasn't just black and white, and diversity could flourish when it's encouraged. Each year, neighbors assemble to bale hay for the farm animals on the block, teaching me just how much a small group of people can get done when they work together, and the magnetism of fantastical yet practical ideas.
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Sky Caves of Nepal, Part...
caves that are may be used for grain storage for for hay for whatever the crop is they're just sort of they don't even think about it and we ask the questions like Pete said how did people used to get into those and they say well you know the lamas fly you're like cool I wish I wish I could do that because
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How urban spaces can...
And we were able to have a community meeting. And within the community meeting, people got up and said, "This place feels like a plantation. Why are we locked in? Why can't we learn theater?" Over the years, people had started putting in chicken coops, hay bales, community gardens and all of these things,
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Big data, small farms...
They use traditional methods. They do it the old pasture-raised, no hormones, no antibiotics, hay for days. And what they're doing here is just treating cows like they're cows, not like they're in a science experiment. He's raising animals the way that his grandfather and his grandfather would have.
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Last Wild Places:...
practices whether it be wildlife friendly fencing or camera traps once guy sets up cameras and then you know you get a picture of a mountain lion or a bear you get a couple hundred bucks and that adds up over the course of the year that helps buy hay or part of a vet build but
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Why the buildings of the...
that's as muscly and sinewy as the animals it's designed to observe. And it means that a building doesn't have to be beautiful to be lovable, like this ugly little building in Spain, where the architects dug a hole, packed it with hay, and then poured concrete around it,
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Why do people have...
your throat is itchy. For you and millions of others, it's seasonal allergy time. So what's behind this onslaught of mucus? The answer lies within you. It's your immune system. Seasonal allergies, also called hay fever, or allergic rhinitis,
Video examples
Marla Spivak: Why bees...
and this is our life without bees. Bees are the most important pollinators of our fruits and vegetables and flowers and crops like alfalfa hay that feed our farm animals. More than one third of the world's crop production
Video examples
Are Badgers the Cleanest...
they even make their beds rolling up their bedding like this has never been seen before maybe they're drying it out which will reduce parasites and make the hay last longer
Video examples
How to make discoveries...
produce the best works the whole point is discover important insights insights that can change the way we treat a disease the music you listen to the vacation you take or maybe even the person you might marry there's ways to systematically sort through massive data and apply the principles of pattern recognition where you can turn the problems of finding a needle in a haystack into finding a hay stack of
Video examples
My $500 house in Detroit...
showing me Detroit wasn't just black and white, and diversity could flourish when it's encouraged. Each year, neighbors assemble to bale hay for the farm animals on the block, teaching me just how much a small group of people can get done when they work together, and the magnetism of fantastical yet practical ideas.
Video examples
Sky Caves of Nepal, Part...
caves that are may be used for grain storage for for hay for whatever the crop is they're just sort of they don't even think about it and we ask the questions like Pete said how did people used to get into those and they say well you know the lamas fly you're like cool I wish I wish I could do that because
Video examples
How urban spaces can...
And we were able to have a community meeting. And within the community meeting, people got up and said, "This place feels like a plantation. Why are we locked in? Why can't we learn theater?" Over the years, people had started putting in chicken coops, hay bales, community gardens and all of these things,
Video examples
Big data, small farms...
They use traditional methods. They do it the old pasture-raised, no hormones, no antibiotics, hay for days. And what they're doing here is just treating cows like they're cows, not like they're in a science experiment. He's raising animals the way that his grandfather and his grandfather would have.
Video examples
Last Wild Places:...
practices whether it be wildlife friendly fencing or camera traps once guy sets up cameras and then you know you get a picture of a mountain lion or a bear you get a couple hundred bucks and that adds up over the course of the year that helps buy hay or part of a vet build but
Video examples
Why the buildings of the...
that's as muscly and sinewy as the animals it's designed to observe. And it means that a building doesn't have to be beautiful to be lovable, like this ugly little building in Spain, where the architects dug a hole, packed it with hay, and then poured concrete around it,
Video examples
Why do people have...
your throat is itchy. For you and millions of others, it's seasonal allergy time. So what's behind this onslaught of mucus? The answer lies within you. It's your immune system. Seasonal allergies, also called hay fever, or allergic rhinitis,
Video examples
Marla Spivak: Why bees...
and this is our life without bees. Bees are the most important pollinators of our fruits and vegetables and flowers and crops like alfalfa hay that feed our farm animals. More than one third of the world's crop production
Video examples
Are Badgers the Cleanest...
they even make their beds rolling up their bedding like this has never been seen before maybe they're drying it out which will reduce parasites and make the hay last longer
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Lee Westwood
English Athlete
Race horses are like golfers, you're never sure how they're going to come out of the stalls. It's just - hopefully the horses come out of the race all right, just fit and ready to go again in the near future, but 3rd was good. It's paid for its hay.
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Ronan Keating
Irish Artist
I thought I'd go away and make one album, but it was extended. The album did so well, and they wanted another album. I was on a high. You make hay while the sun shines, and I was doing it, and you think about yourself; that's what you do.
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Robert H. Grubbs
American Scientist
As I grew older, farms in Kentucky provided me with many jobs in hauling hay and in cutting tobacco. In addition to helping fund my college years, these jobs helped me to meet an array of very interesting and amazing men and women.
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Kristin Scott Thomas
English Actress
I think people do work too much. I've never been able to understand the whole 'make hay while the sun shines' thing. Either I want to work or I don't want to work.
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Carol Bartz
American Businesswoman
My grandmother raised me. She was a real no-nonsense but very funny lady. I drove tractors, made hay, milked cows, fed the chicken, fed the pigs.
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Tara Westover
American Historian
I used to roof hay barns for my father. It's dangerous work. Writing is much better.
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Nancy Dubuc
American Businesswoman
A lot of people make hay about 'American Idol's ratings and 'Empire.
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Joe Hill
American Activist
Work and pray, live on hay, you'll get pie in the sky when you die.
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Xander Berkeley
American Actor
I'd better make hay while the sun shines.
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James Lovelock
English Scientist
Let's make hay while it lasts.
Quote examples
Lee Westwood
English Athlete
Race horses are like golfers, you're never sure how they're going to come out of the stalls. It's just - hopefully the horses come out of the race all right, just fit and ready to go again in the near future, but 3rd was good. It's paid for its hay.
Quote examples
Ronan Keating
Irish Artist
I thought I'd go away and make one album, but it was extended. The album did so well, and they wanted another album. I was on a high. You make hay while the sun shines, and I was doing it, and you think about yourself; that's what you do.
Quote examples
Robert H. Grubbs
American Scientist
As I grew older, farms in Kentucky provided me with many jobs in hauling hay and in cutting tobacco. In addition to helping fund my college years, these jobs helped me to meet an array of very interesting and amazing men and women.
Quote examples
Kristin Scott Thomas
English Actress
I think people do work too much. I've never been able to understand the whole 'make hay while the sun shines' thing. Either I want to work or I don't want to work.
Quote examples
Carol Bartz
American Businesswoman
My grandmother raised me. She was a real no-nonsense but very funny lady. I drove tractors, made hay, milked cows, fed the chicken, fed the pigs.
Quote examples
Tara Westover
American Historian
I used to roof hay barns for my father. It's dangerous work. Writing is much better.
Quote examples
Nancy Dubuc
American Businesswoman
A lot of people make hay about 'American Idol's ratings and 'Empire.
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Joe Hill
American Activist
Work and pray, live on hay, you'll get pie in the sky when you die.
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Xander Berkeley
American Actor
I'd better make hay while the sun shines.
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James Lovelock
English Scientist
Let's make hay while it lasts.
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