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Definition: Cornmeal |
CornmealNoun1. Coarsely ground corn. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cornmeal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To see cornmeal, foretells the consummation of ardent wishes. To eat it made into bread, denotes that you will unwittingly throw obstructions in the way of your own advancement. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | A flour produced by grinding and bolting corn or as a by-product of the manufacture of grits or hominy. . . WINAC 62. . /. . --white, finely ground and bolted cornmeal. ; finely ground but unbolted corn, used in corn bread, mush, etc. . . WINAG 62. . Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Cornmeal is also used to prevent sticking when baking bread and pizza. Cornmeal makes an excellent thickener in rustic sauces, but tends to lump up. It is the major ingredient in polenta and mush.
See also: Hominy, Grits
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cornmeal."
Synonym: CornmealSynonym: Indian meal (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cornmeal |
| English words defined with "cornmeal": anadama bread ♦ batter bread, Boston brown bread, brown bread ♦ corn chip, cornbread, cornmeal mush ♦ gruel ♦ hasty pudding, hoecake ♦ mush ♦ salt-rising bread, spoon bread ♦ tamale, tortilla. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cornmeal": Bonus commodities ♦ CORN COOKER, CORN GRINDER ♦ Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations ♦ MEXICAN FOOD MAKER, HAND ♦ TAMALE-MACHINE FEEDER, TUMBLER OPERATOR ♦ Zukurate. (references) |
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 | Beginning in January 1998, the B vitamin folic acid will be added to enriched bread, flour, cornmeal, rice, pasta, and other products, according to a 1996 U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | Proprietor of feed mill emptying sack of shelled corn into hopper for grinding into cornmeal. Taylor, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Boxes of Kenyon's johnnycake cornmeal awaiting shipment. Usquepaugh, Rhode Island. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Eat more cornmeal, rye flour, oatmeal, and barley--Save the wheat for the fighters / Adolph Treidler. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Ma turned from the cornmeal she was measuring in fistfuls. |
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Business | The food and beverage industries produce beer, juices and concentrates, bottled beverages, pastas, bread and cookies, sauces, cornmeal, flour, and internationally known wines. (references) | |
Most agricultural production is transformed into beer, juices and concentrates, bottled beverages, pastas, bread and cookies, sauces, cornmeal, flour, and internationally known wines. (references) | ||
Economic History | Jamaica | For the food processing subsector, growth in output was recorded in areas such as poultry meat, animal feeds, edible fats, cornmeal and dairy. (references) |
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| "Cornmeal" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cornmeal" is used about 12 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% | 12 | 101,599 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "cornmeal": cornmeal mush. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
cornmeal | 124 | cornmeal pudding | 3 |
cornmeal recipe | 15 | cornmeal dumplings | 3 |
cookie cornmeal lime | 11 | cake cornmeal made | 2 |
cornmeal muffin | 9 | cookie cornmeal lime martha stewart | 2 |
cornmeal mush | 8 | chicken cornmeal dumplings | 2 |
cookie cornmeal | 6 | cornmeal mush recipe | 2 |
cornmeal pancake | 5 | cornmeal pancake recipe | 2 |
bread cornmeal recipe | 4 | bread cornmeal zucchini | 2 |
cornmeal croquettes salmon | 4 | cornmeal fungus toenail | 2 |
cornmeal muffin recipe | 4 | cornmeal jamaican pudding | 2 |
blue cornmeal | 3 | cornmeal horticultural | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "cornmeal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | æ£'åé¢. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | majsmel (corn flour, corn meal, maize floor, maize flour, posho). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | meel van mais (corn flour, corn meal, maize floor, maize flour, posho). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | farine de maïs (corn flour, corn meal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Maismehl (hominy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | farina di granturco (corn flour, corn meal, maize floor, maize flour, posho). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | コール天 (cone, cone speaker, cones, corded velveteen, corduroy, core, corn, Corn Belt, corn chowder, corn flakes, corn snow, corn soup, corn starch, corn syrup, corns). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | コーンミール . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ornmealcay farinha de milho (cornflour). (various references) кукурузный мука. (various references) harina de maÃz (cornflour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cornmeal": cornmeals. (additional references) | |
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"Cornmeal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: coenwealh, Corrymeela, Korumel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cornmeal" (pronounced kô"rnmē'l) |
| 3 | -m ē' l | oatmeal, piecemeal. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: amelcorn. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-l-m-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: almoner, corneal, romance. | |
-2 letters: almner, calmer, carmen, clamor, cloner, coaler, cormel, cornea, cornel, enamor, lancer, loaner, macron, marcel, merlon, moaner, morale, normal, oracle, recoal, reloan. | |
-3 letters: acorn, alone, amole, anole, camel, cameo, caner, canoe, carle, carol, carom, celom, ceorl, claro, clean, clear, clone, comae, comal, comer, coral, crane, cream, crone, enorm, enrol, lacer. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-l-m-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: amelcorns, cornmeals. | |
+2 letters: camerlengo, carmagnole, ceremonial, chloramine, complainer, coromandel, normalcies. | |
+3 letters: aeronomical, beclamoring, camerlengos, carmagnoles, ceremonials, chloramines, clergywoman, complainers, confirmable, conformable, coromandels, homonuclear, infomercial, lamellicorn, macronuclei, mineralogic, mononuclear, nomenclator, nonmetrical, reclamation. | |
+4 letters: ceremonially, chlorenchyma, conglomerate, contemplator, counterclaim, elasmobranch, incomparable, infomercials, lamellicorns, laryngectomy, macronuclear, macronucleus, metronomical, microbalance, mononuclears, nomenclators, nomenclature, nonempirical, nonmercurial, nonmolecular, nonnumerical, overclaiming, reclamations, uncommercial. | |
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