Definitions for Corning

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Corning Cor·ning

Spelling: [kawr-ning]

IPA: /ˈkɔr nɪŋ/

Corning is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 110 anagrams from letters in Corning (cginnor).

Definitions for Corning

noun

1. a city in S New York.
2. Also called Indian corn; especially technical and British, maize. a tall cereal plant, Zea mays, cultivated in many varieties, having a jointed, solid stem and bearing the grain, seeds, or kernels on large ears.
3. the grain, seeds, or kernels of this plant, used for human food or for fodder.
4. the ears of this plant.
5. the edible seed of certain other cereal plants, especially wheat in England and oats in Scotland.
6. the plants themselves.
7. sweet corn.
8. corn whiskey.
9. Skiing. corn snow.
10. Informal. old-fashioned, trite, or mawkishly sentimental material, as a joke, a story, or music.

verb (used with object)

1. to preserve and season with salt in grains.
2. to preserve and season with brine.
3. to granulate, as gunpowder.
4. to plant (land) with corn.
5. to feed with corn.

Origin of Corning

before 900; Middle English, Old English; cognate with Dutch koren, Old Norse korn, German Korn, Gothic kaúrn; akin to Latin grānum grain, Russian zernó

Examples for Corning

The rattle rand is the very best piece for Corning, or salting.

He could demand, under the Corning republic, some high office.

It is good for roasting, and particularly for Corning and salting.

Dr. Corning has already been represented, in our group of poets.

Corning and Jack Turner hired a wagon to take them to Briggsville.

Corning out of the room, he looked carefully at the door-knob.

The plate and brisket may be used for soups, stews and goulashes and for Corning.

The round is used for alamode beef, and is the best piece for Corning.

And your wife in a locker somewhere that Captain Corning will pick out for her.

They panned to the CEO of Corning Inc., which made me wonder—are they creating new jobs?