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oat

noun
/ˈəʊt/UK/ˈoʊ̯t/CA/ˈoːt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English ote, from Old English āte, from Proto-West Germanic *aitā, from Proto-Germanic *aitǭ (“swelling; gland; nodule”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyd- (“to swell”). See English atter (“poison”). Cognates * Germanic: cognate with Scots ait (“oat”), West Frisian oat (“wild oat”), Dutch oot, aat (“wild oat”), Saterland Frisian Aate (“pea”), German Low German Aat (“oat”), obsolete Luxembourgish Otz (“oat”). Further related to Icelandic eitill (“nodule”), Norwegian Bokmål eitel (“knot, gland”), Norwegian Nynorsk eitel (“knot, gland”), Old High German eiz (“abscess”) (German Eiter (“pus”), Eiß (“ulcer”)), Dutch etter (“pus”), Saterland Frisian eitel (“fast, raging”), Old Norse eitill (“nodule”) * Indo-European: Latin aemidus (“swollen, protuberant”), Old Church Slavonic ꙗдъ (jadŭ, “poison”), Ancient Greek οἰδέω (oidéō, “to swell”), Albanian ënjt (“to swell, inflame”), Old Armenian այտնում (aytnum, “to swell”), այտ (ayt, “cheek”), Sanskrit इन्दु (índu, “water drop”)

  1. derived from *h₁eyd-✻ — “to swell”
  2. inherited from *aitǭ✻ — “swelling; gland; nodule”
  3. inherited from *aitā✻
  4. inherited from āte
  5. inherited from ote

Definitions

  1. Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa.

    • The oat stalks made good straw.
    • The main forms of oat are meal and bran.
    • World trade in oat is increasing.

  2. Any of the numerous species, varieties, or cultivars of any of several similar grain…

    Any of the numerous species, varieties, or cultivars of any of several similar grain plants in genus Avena.

    • The wild red oat is thought to be the ancestor of modern food oats.

  3. The seeds of the oat, a grain, harvested as a food crop and for animal feed.

    • […]I could munch your good dry Oates. Me-thinkes I haue a great deſire to a bottle of hay: good hay, ſweete hay hath no fellow.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A simple musical pipe made of oat-straw.

    2. The tiniest amount

      The tiniest amount; a whit or jot.

      • Few of them care an oat for the niceties of the arrow sport, but for the young lords that may be on a hunt!

    3. Alternative letter-case form of OAT.

    4. Initialism of of all time.

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Derived

animated oat, black oat, black oat grass, common wild oat, feel one's oats, naked oat, oatbread, oat burner, oat-burner, oatcake, oat cell, oaten, oater, oatflake, oatgrass, oat grass, oatie, oatlage, oatless, oatlike, oat-like, oatmeal, oat milk, oat opera, oat soda, oatstraw, oaty, off one's oats, Polish oat, potato oat, proats, rolled oats, sow one's oats, sow one's wild oats, sow wild oats, sterile oat, wild oat, wild red oat

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at oat. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at oat. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at oat

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA