- 1燕麥製的、燕麥的（放在名詞前，如 oat milk）
As a describing word, oat means “made from oats,” the pale grain used for porridge, , and drinks. We put it in front of another noun: oat milk, oat bran, oat flour, oat cookies. It tells you the food came from that grain, not from wheat or rice. Though actually English is a bit here. When we talk about the grain as food, we nearly always use the plural oats: “I eat oats in the morning.” The short form oat is what sits in front of another word. You would not usually say “this bread is oat”; you say “oat bread” or “bread made of oats.” One single seed can be called an oat, but shop talk and breakfast talk run on oats and on compounds like oatmeal. The grain name is very old: from Old English āte, from a Germanic word for a swelling or little lump — the grain sits on the plant like a small . The “made of oats” use is simply that grain-word borrowed to describe food.
組成From Middle English ote, from Old English āte, from a West Germanic / Germanic word for a swelling or little lump (the grain as a small nodule). The “made of oats” sense is that same grain-word placed in front of another noun.
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
oatnoun詞源 1/ˈəʊt/
- 1
Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa.
- The oat stalks made good straw.
- The main forms of oat are meal and bran.
- 2
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.
- The point is, except in Scotland, people eat comparatively few oats. Scotland's another story, though you'll have to decide how seriously to take it. The way the story goes is that in eastern Scotland, the unmarried plowmen didn't eat anything but oats and milk, except for an occasional potato.
- 4
A simple musical pipe made of oat-straw.
- 5
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!
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- all time
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。