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oat
[ oht ]
noun
- a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- Usually oats. (used with a singular or plural verb) the seed of this plant, used as a food for humans and animals.
- any of several plants of the same genus, as the wild oat.
- Archaic. a musical pipe made of an oat straw.
oat
/ əʊ /
noun
- an erect annual grass, Avena sativa, grown in temperate regions for its edible seed
- usually plural the seeds or fruits of this grass
- any of various other grasses of the genus Avena, such as the wild oat
- poetic.a flute made from an oat straw
- feel one's oats informal.
- to feel exuberant
- to feel self-important
- get one's oats slang.to have sexual intercourse
- sow one's oats or sow one's wild oatsto indulge in adventure or promiscuity during youth
Other 51Թ Forms
- Dzl adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of oat1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of oat1
Idioms and Phrases
- feel one's oats, Informal.
- to feel frisky or lively.
- to be aware of and use one's importance or power.
- sow one's wild oats. wild oat ( def 3 ).
Example Sentences
The soap is flavoured to taste like beans on toast, and is made out of cacao butter, organic oat flour, avocado oil and paprika as well as beans and toast flavouring.
I’ll put a little oat milk in there with a little maple syrup.
Coffee, oats, cocoa, spices, tropical fruit and tin mill steel, used for some food and household goods, are among the imports listed as unavailable domestically, Reuters reported.
My default seems to be crawling into myself and hibernating with warm, soft-baked Pillsbury chocolate chip cookies with a glass of oat milk.
Before the end of the century, parts of the United Kingdom, to offer one example, may be forced to swap top commodities such as oats and wheat for everything from soy to chickpeas to grapes.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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