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Definition: Oat |
OatNoun1. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats'). 2. Seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as `oats'). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "oat" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references) |
Etymology: Oat \Oat\ ([=o]t), noun; plural Oats([=o]ts). [Old English ote, ate, Anglo-Saxon [=a]ta, akin to Fries. oat. Of uncertain origin.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | A cereal plant, Avena sativa, cultivated in cool climates, the grain yielded by it is used as food. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Oats Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Liliopsida Order: Poales Family: Poaceae Genus: Avena Species A. abyssinica
A. barbata
A. fatua
A. maroccana
A. nuda
A. occidentalis
A. sativa
A. sterilis
A. strigosaReferences ITIS 41455 2002-09-22 Oats are the fruits of any of several cereal grains, genus Avena. They are used for food and as fodder for animals. Oat straw is also sometimes used as animal feed.
Oats are often served as a porridge made from crushed oats or oatmeal, and are also baked into cookies. As oat flour or oatmeal, they are also used in a variety of other baked goods and cold cereals, and as an ingredient in granola.
Oats are native to Eurasia and appear to have been domesticated relatively late. They are now grown throughout the temperate zones. Like wheat, oats are an annual plant, and can be planted either in the fall (for early summer harvest) or in the spring (for late summer harvest).
Oat bran is the outer casing of the oat. Its consumption is believed to lower LDL ("bad") cholesterol, and possibly to reduce the risk of heart disease. Oats are also a safe grain for people with celiac disease (gluten intolerance).
Oat straw is also used in corn dolly making, and it is the favourite filling for lace-making pillows.
Agronomy
Sow oats in the spring as soon as the soil can be worked. An early start is crucial to good yields as oats will go dormant during the summer heat. Oats are cold-tolerant and will be unaffected by late frosts or snow. Sow at about 2 bushels per acre, either broadcast or drilled in 6" rows. Lower rates are used when underseeding with a legume. Somewhat higher rates can be used on the best soils. Excessive sowing rates will lead to problems with lodging and will reduce yields.
Oats remove substantial amounts of nitrogen from the soil. If the straw is removed from the soil rather than being plowed back, there will also be removal of large quantities of potash. Usually 50-100 pounds of N in the form of urea or anhydrous ammonia is sufficient. A sufficient amount of N is particularly important for plant height and hence straw quality and yield. When the prior-year crop was a legume, or where ample manure is applied, N rates can be reduced somewhat.
The vigorous growth habit of oats will tend to choke out most weeds. A few tall broadleaf weeds, such as ragweed and buttonweed (velvetleaf), can be a problem occasionally especially as they complicate harvest. These can be controlled with a modest application of a simple broadleaf herbicide such as 2,4D while the weeds are still small.
Modern harvest technique is a matter of available equipment, local tradition, and priorities. Best yields are attained by swathing--cutting the plants at about 4" above ground and putting them into windrows with the grain all oriented the same way--just before the grain is completely ripe. The windrows are left to dry in the sun for several days before being combined using a dummy head. Then the straw is baled.
Oats can also be left standing until completely ripe and then combined with a grain head. This will lead to greater field losses as the grain falls from the heads, and also to harvesting losses as the grain is threshed out by the reel. Without a draper head, there will also be somewhat more damage to the straw since it will not be properly oriented as it enters the throat of the combine. Overall yield loss is 10-15% compared to proper swathing.
Late 19th and early 20th century harvesting was performed using a binder. Oats were shocked and then collected and run through a stationary threshing machine.
Earlier harvest involved cutting with a scythe or sickle, and threshing under the feet of cattle.
A good yield from a field of oats is typically 100 bushels of grain and 2 tons of straw.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Oat."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
OAT | English | Office of Advanced Technology | Industry |
OAT | French | Opérations d'assistance technique | N/A |
OAT | Spanish | Obligación asimilable del Tesoro | Finance |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ship | Boat, pinnace, launch; life boat, long boat, jolly boat, bum boat, fly boat, ferry oat, canal boat; swamp boat, ark, bully, bateau battery, broadhorn, dory, droger, drogher; dugout, durham boat, flatboat, galiot; shallop, gig, funny, skiff, dingy, scow, cockleshell, wherry, coble, punt, cog, kedge, lerret; eight oar, four oar, pair oar; randan; outrigger; float, raft, pontoon; prame; iceboat, ice canoe, ice yacht. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Oat |
| English words defined with "oat": Ait, animated oat, Arrhenatherum, Arrhenatherum elatius, Avena barbata, Avenaceous, Avene sterilis ♦ bannock, believe in ♦ evergreen grass ♦ false oat, French rye ♦ genus Arrhenatherum, Grass of the Andes ♦ Haver, Haver grass ♦ oat cell carcinoma, Oats ♦ slender wild oat, small cell carcinoma, Sowens, Swine oat ♦ tall meadow grass, tall oat grass, To sow one's wild oats ♦ Wild oat, wild red oat. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "oat": Saturnian Days, small cell lung cancer, SON. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "oat": scone. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Hello sir, would you like to try a vanilla-bran oat crunchy (My Blue Heaven; writing credit: Nora Ephron) | |
Movie/TV Titles | One Wild Oat (1951) Her Wild Oat (1927) | |
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Theater & Movies | |||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Tall Oat Grassgrass. Credit: Roger Rosentreter. |  | Baling oat hay, Brookeville, Maryland. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Willy Roberts, county supervisor, inspecting new co-op combine purchased through FSA (Farm Security Administration) to harvest crops of low income farmers and other FSA borrowers. He is demonstrating in his own oat field. Oak Grove, West Carroll Parish, L. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Cooperative oat thrasher, purchased by E.H. Lester through FSA (Farm Security Administration) community co-op service loan. West Carroll Parish, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Georgia oat field? Southern U.S. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The wild oat head fell out and three of the spearhead seeds stuck in the ground |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The most common forms of ACTH-producing tumors are oat cell, or small cell lung cancer, which accounts for about 25 percent of all lung cancer cases, and carcinoid tumors. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Oat" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Oat" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 18 | 82,615 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "oat": animated oat ♦ cereal oat ♦ common oat ♦ false oat ♦ get one's oat ♦ oat bran ♦ oat cell cancer ♦ oat cell carcinoma ♦ oat fowl ♦ oat grass ♦ slender wild oat ♦ swine oat ♦ tall oat grass ♦ water oat ♦ wild oat ♦ wild oat grass ♦ wild red oat. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "oat": oat-cake, oat-cakes, oat-flakes, oat-flour, oat-topped. | |
Ending with "oat": wild-oat. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
wild oat | 483 | oat cell carcinoma | 14 |
quaker oat | 385 | oat test | 14 |
oat | 261 | oat hay | 14 |
hall and oat | 213 | green oat | 14 |
wild oat market | 135 | blue grass oat | 13 |
oat bran | 89 | oat testing | 13 |
the quaker oat company | 65 | steel cut oat | 12 |
sea oat | 57 | bran muffin oat recipe | 12 |
agriculture oat | 38 | oat procedure | 12 |
hall lyrics oat | 34 | condominium oat sea | 11 |
oat quaker recipe | 28 | flour oat recipe | 11 |
wild oat store | 19 | oat meal | 10 |
company list oat | 18 | buck forage oat | 10 |
oat flour | 18 | destin oat sea | 10 |
rolled oat | 18 | oat bran recipe | 10 |
sea oat motel | 17 | quacker oat | 9 |
honey bunch of oat | 16 | northern sea oat | 9 |
oat cell cancer | 16 | wild oat grocery | 9 |
oat straw | 15 | horse oat | 9 |
oat bran muffin | 15 | oat groats | 9 |
eat mare oat | 15 | joyce carol oat | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "oat"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tagji (fodder, forage), tërshëre (oaten), tërshërë, prej kashte (oaten, stramineous). (various references) | |
Arabic | وعى أهميته و قوته, شوفان نباتة, شعر بالتعب. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | овчарска свирка (reed pipe), овесен (oaten), овес (oats). (various references) | |
Chinese | 燕麥 , 燕麦 (OATS). (various references) | |
Cornish | kerghen. (various references) | |
Czech | oves (corn). (various references) | |
Danish | havre (oats). (various references) | |
Dutch | haver (oats). (various references) | |
Farsi | یولاف , جوصحراءی , جودوسر, جودادن , شوفان . (various references) | |
Finnish | kaura (oats). (various references) | |
French | avoine (oats). (various references) | |
German | Hafer (oats). (various references) | |
Greek | βρώμη η καλλιεργούμενη (common oat), βρώμη η ήμερος (common oat), βρώμη (oats), βρόμη (oats). (various references) | |
Hungarian | zab (corn, haver, oats). (various references) | |
Indonesian | gandum (buckwheat, cereal, grain, wheat, wheat flour). (various references) | |
Italian | avena (oats). (various references) | |
Korean | 귀리 (OATS). (various references) | |
Manx | grine corkey, corkey (corn, corn oat grain). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oatay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | aveia (oatmeal, oats). (various references) | |
Romanian | ovãz (corn), fluier de pãstor, fluier ciobãnesc. (various references) | |
Russian | овсяный (oaten), овес овсяный, овес (oats), из овсяной соломы (oaten). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ovseni, ovas (oats), zob (oats). (various references) | |
Spanish | avena (groats, oatmeal, oats). (various references) | |
Swedish | havre (corn, oats, rolled oats). (various references) | |
Thai | ข้าวโอ๊ต. (various references) | |
Turkish | yulaf (corn, oaten, oats). (various references) | |
Turkmen | talhan (oat flour). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | овес, пастушачий ріжок, пастораль (eclogue, idyl, idyll, pastoral), дудка з вівсяної соломи. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vênh váo phởn, tớn lên. (various references) | |
Welsh | ceirchyn, ceirchen. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Avena sativa. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "oat": oatcake, oatcakes, oaten, oater, oaters, oath, oaths, oatlike, oatmeal, oatmeals, oats. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "oat": afloat, airboat, bareboat, bloat, bluecoat, boat, bumboat, bushgoat, catboat, coat, cockboat, cutthroat, doat, faltboat, ferryboat, fireboat, flatboat, float, flyboat, foldboat, gloat, goat, greatcoat, groat, gunboat, houseboat, housecoat, iceboat, johnboat, keelboat, lifeboat, longboat, maxicoat, moat, motorboat, outercoat, overcoat, paddleboat, peacoat, petticoat, picketboat, pigboat, powerboat, raincoat, redcoat, refloat, riverboat, rowboat, rubythroat, sailboat, sauceboat. (additional references) | |
Words containing "oat": airboats, bareboats, benzoate, benzoates, bloated, bloater, bloaters, bloating, bloats, bluecoats, boatable, boatbill, boatbills, boatbuilder, boatbuilders, boatbuilding, boatbuildings, boated, boatel, boatels, boater, boaters, boatful, boatfuls, boathook, boathooks, boathouse, boathouses, boating, boatings, boatlike, boatload, boatloads, boatman, boatmen, boats, boatsman, boatsmen, boatswain, boatswains, boatyard, boatyards, bumboats, bushgoats, catboats, coatdress, coatdresses, coated, coatee, coatees, coater. (additional references) | |
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"Oat" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aat, ao, aoet, aot, aote, eosat, Iat, ioat, joat, koat, noat, oa, Oaa, oaas, oab, oac, oad, oadg, Oadp, oaet, oag, oai, oam, oan, oap, oart, oate, oati, oaty, oau, oaw, oax, Oay, oaz, obt, oeat, oet, oett, ofat, oha, oht, oia, oih, oii, oij, oit, oite, Oito, oiv, oja, Okatu, Okt, olat, olt, omt, oot, oowt, opat, oqa, Orat, osart, ostt, ot, ota, Otai, Otar, otay, ote, otk, ott, otx, Ouata, outc, outi, outl, outy, ovat, owt, owto, oxate, oya, Oyash, oyt, oza, ozad, Ozato, ozt, ua, voat, woat, Yoash. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "oat" (pronounced ō"t) |
| 2 | ō" t | afloat, bloat, boat, Capote, coat, connote, Cote, demote, denote, devote, dote, float, gloat, goat, groat, haute, misquote, moat, mote, note, outvote, promote, quote, remote, rewrote, rote, throat, Tote, underwrote, unquote, vote, wrote. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: tao. | |
| Words within the letters "a-o-t" | |
-1 letter: at, ta, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-o-t" | |
+1 letter: alto, atom, atop, auto, boat, bota, coat, dato, doat, goat, iota, jato, jota, lota, moat, nota, oast, oath, oats, rato, rota, stoa, taco, taos, taro, toad, toea, toga, tola, tora. | |
+2 letters: abbot, abort, about, actor, adopt, afoot, allot, aloft, altho, altos, amort, aorta, aport, argot, ascot, atoll, atoms, atomy, atone, atony, atopy, autos, azote, azoth, baton, biota, bloat, boart, boast, boats, botas, canto, coact, coapt, coast, coati, coats, costa, cotan, cotta, datos, datto, doats, dotal, fagot, fatso, float, flota, gator, gavot, gloat, goats, groat, hosta, iotas, jabot, jatos, jotas, korat, loath, lotah, lotas, lovat, magot, matzo, moats, notal, oasts, oaten, oater, oaths, octad, octal, octan, orate, ostia, ottar, ovate, panto, patio, quota, ratio, ratos, roast, rotas, sabot, santo, shoat, softa, stoae, stoai, stoas, stoat, stoma, taboo, tabor, tacos, talon, tango, tanto, tardo, taroc, tarok, taros, tarot, taxon, toads, toady, toast, today, toeas, togae, togas, tokay, tolan, tolar, tolas, toman, tonal, tonga, topaz, torah, toras, total, troak, trona, volta. | |
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