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to corn

1 9.0
To preserve meat by using salt
  • verb
  • /kɔrn/
: poner en salmuera
  • The chef decided to corn the beef for a week to enhance its flavor.
  • corned beef
  • corned beef and cabbage
  • corned beef sandwich

Examples

  • To make the dish traditional, he chose to corn the meat before cooking.

  • Last summer, we learned how to corn fish in order to preserve it for the winter.

  • The smell of corned beef was everywhere.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • You used to walk in when you were nine and get a corned beef sandwich.

  • Shirley, give her a corned beef sandwich.

  • -It's corned beef and cabbage.

  • Ah, corned beef and cabbage.

  • In the spirit of trying new things, I eat corned-beef hash along with the eggs.

    Blog text (8)
  • Oh, those big chunks of corned beef on the steam table.

  • I like corned beef on rye, too, but not as a steady diet.

Synonyms

to salt
vsto corn
21 1.0

To put small white crystals on food to make it taste better or last longer

means treating food for preservation using that mineral rather than only flavoring
to cure
vsto corn
5 4.6

Preserve food, for example by drying or salting

limits preservation specifically to treatment by adding salt rather than other methods
to salten
vsto corn
  • Archaic
1 9.9

To add salt to food, often to preserve or flavor it

focuses on preservation by adding salt rather than occasional seasoning
to dun
vsto corn
  • Archaic
9.9

To keep meat or fish from spoiling by salting

is a general term for treating food with salt to preserve it
to salinize
vsto corn
  • Specialized
7.5

To preserve food by adding salt so it lasts longer

applies especially to food and meat treated with salt for keeping

Idioms

1 8.3

A question that shows something is not related to the topic

Use saved resources now in a way that harms future success

Compounds

26 2.3

A sweet thick liquid made from corn that you use to make food sweeter and thicker

24 1.8

A hot dog covered in cornmeal batter and fried on a stick

15 1.0

A thin crisp toasted piece made from corn eaten for breakfast with milk

14 1.3

A hard middle part of an ear of corn that holds the kernels

13 3.5

A small triangular sweet with yellow, orange, and white layers often eaten at Halloween

A cooked ear with rows of yellow kernels you eat by holding the ends

9 1.1

A type of corn with sweet, tender kernels that people eat as a vegetable when young

7 1.0

A thin crunchy snack made from corn and fried, often salted or flavored

5 1.0

A small cake made from cornmeal like cornbread

corn-fed
  • Offensive
4 8.3

A strong, healthy-looking person from the countryside who seems a bit naive

4 1.4

A pale yellow vegetable oil made from corn kernels used for cooking

4 2.9

A sugar made from corn starch used to sweeten food and drinks

3 4.9

An animal raised mainly on corn that often has more tender meat

3 1.6

A tall stem that holds the leaves and ears of a corn plant

3 2.8

A thick soup made with corn and milk, often with potatoes and onions

3 9.0

Illegal strong alcohol made by distilling corn mash secretly

3 3.1

An area in the US Midwest where farmers mainly grow corn

bushel of corn
  • Specialized
2 4.2

A measure of dry corn equal to eight gallons, about 36 liters

2 3.5

Long thin soft threads that grow on the top of an ear of corn

2 2.2

A baked dish of corn, cream, and eggs served as a side dish

seed corn
  • Specialized
2 4.1

Kernels of corn kept for planting the next crop

field corn
  • Specialized
1 4.2

A farm crop grown for animal feed and grain products, not eaten fresh

1 2.0

A flat food like a pancake made from cornmeal and cooked on a pan

1 4.2

A small annual plant with tender edible leaves used in salads

1 6.0

A gentle reddish-orange snake from the southeastern United States often found on farms and kept as a pet

1 2.5

A small fried cake of batter and bits of corn served hot as a snack or side dish

corn gluten
  • Specialized
1 4.4

A protein from corn used in food and animal feed

1 6.7

Money or goods kept for use later to help future growth

1 7.5

Snow made of small loose grains after melting in daytime and freezing again at night

1 5.6

An alcoholic drink made mostly from corn, traditionally from the United States

1 7.7

An insect, usually a moth or its caterpillar, that eats holes in corn stems and harms the crop

1 4.2

A type of corn with hard kernels in many colors used for decoration or food

corn gluten feed
  • Specialized
1 4.5

A coarse food for farm animals like cattle made from parts left after making corn products

1 2.5

A type of corn with sweet young ears eaten as a vegetable

1 3.0

Young corn picked and eaten before it ripens

1 7.9

A small oval cornmeal cake usually baked or fried

flint corn
  • Specialized
1 8.1

A type of corn with hard outer kernels and a soft inside used for food or decoration

soft corn
  • Specialized
1 5.6

Corn with kernels that are mostly soft and grind easily into flour

1 9.3

A traditional dance by some Native American people to ask for rain and a good corn harvest

corn smut
  • Specialized
1 9.3

A disease caused by a fungus that makes big grey growths on corn ears

corn earworm
  • Specialized
1 8.1

A caterpillar that eats and damages corn and other crop plants

can of corn
  • Archaic
1 9.0

An easy catch in baseball or a very simple task

corn exchange
  • Archaic
1 7.5

A building where people buy and sell grain like corn

1 9.6

A grain plant grown in dry areas for food and animal feed

flour corn
  • Specialized
1 6.3

A type of corn with very soft kernels used to make fine meal

A type of cornbread cooked in a frying pan that has a crisp golden crust

dent corn
  • Specialized
1 7.0

A type of corn with kernels that have a small dent at the top

1 9.9

A plant with bright purple, trumpet-shaped flowers and poisonous seeds that grows in grain fields and roadsides

1 9.4

A small white wildflower with a yellow center that grows in cornfields and spreads quickly

kaffir corn
  • Archaic
1 9.7

A tall grain plant like corn grown for food and animal feed

1 9.9

A small woodland plant with creamy white flowers and yellow roots like corn kernels

corn lily
  • South African
1 7.5

A South African plant with long grasslike leaves and bright lily-like flowers

1 7.9

A plant with bright yellow flowers that grows as a weed in grain fields

1 4.1

A bright red wild flower that grows in fields of grain in Europe and that people often plant in gardens

1 8.4

A tool that breaks corn kernels for food or animal feed

A small leafy plant people use in salads that can grow wild as a weed

8.6

A small oval cake made with cornmeal that is fried or baked

A small moth whose caterpillars tunnel into corn stems and damage crops

9.9

A European wildflower with reddish-purple trumpet-shaped flowers and poisonous seeds

9.1

A small weed with white flowers that often grows in fields and roadsides

6.8

A small herb with a strong smell and green leaves used to make tea and oils

A small annual plant with tiny blue flowers that grows in open ground like roadsides

9.9

A small plant with thin leaves and white star-shaped flowers that grows in fields

9.9

A small weed with leaves that grow around the stem and white flowers in farm fields

9.9

A cornbread cake wrapped in cabbage leaves and baked in hot ashes

crow corn
  • Archaic
9.9

A small plant like grass with pale flowers and a bitter root used to treat stomach problems

A type of corn grown to eat, like sweet corn cooked and eaten

Egyptian corn
  • Indian
8.8

A grain plant called sorghum that people grow for food in dry regions of North Africa and Asia

A small moth whose young caterpillars make holes in corn stems and damage crops

kafir corn
  • Archaic
9.9

A type of grain plant grown for food and animal feed

A type of corn people grow for sweet, tender kernels to eat

squaw corn
  • Archaic
9.6

A type of corn with soft, starchy kernels

9.3

A type of corn with hard outer kernel and softer inner part

How Salted

to cure
5 4.6
to corn
1 9.0
to salt
21 1.0
to season
58 1.7

Surface Forms

corn infinitive
corned past
corned past participle
corning present participle
corns third person singular

Etymology

To corn meat as in 'corned beef' comes from using large 'grains' of salt to cure the meat, so to corn is to preserve or treat meat with salt.