CORN

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Traducere în limba română

corn¹ I. substantiv

1. grăunte, bob; sâmbure, sămânţă;

a pepper corn un bob de piper.

2. (în Anglia) cereale, grâne, bucate, (mai ales) grâu.

3. (amer.) (şi Indian corn) porumb.

4. (în Scoţia) ovăz.

5. (amer., fam.) rachiu de porumb, whisky.

corn¹ II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. (tehn.) a zdrobi, a pulveriza, a transforma în granule.

2. a hrăni cu grăunţe.

3. (sl.) a îmbăta.

corn¹ II. verb B. intranzitiv

1. a da în spic, a se coace.

2. a semăna, a produce grâu, (amer.) porumb.

corn² verb tranzitiv

a săra, a mura, a pune la saramură.

corn³ substantiv

1. bătătură (la picior / mână);

(fig.) to tread on smb.' s corn a călca pe cineva pe bătătură / pe coadă; a jigni pe cineva în sentimentele sale, a vexa pe cineva.

2. (fig.) loc comun, banalitate, clişeu, lucru răsuflat; distracţie populară, divertisment banal / fără pretenţii, spectacol ieftin.

3. muzică proastă, ieftină.

4. (sport) zăpadă granuloasă, bună pentru schi.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Then she lay down among the corn and fell asleep.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

An oil extracted from the germ of corn.

(Corn Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

And to feed them on board, I had a good bundle of hay, and a bag of corn.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

On the feet were some old boots with blue tops, such as every man wore in this country, and the figure was raised above the stalks of corn by means of the pole stuck up its back.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

But when evening came and she still stayed away, Hans went out to see what she had cut, but nothing was cut, and she was lying among the corn asleep.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

After Hans had had her some time, he said: Wife, I am going out to work and earn some money for us; go into the field and cut the corn that we may have some bread.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

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