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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.
As a describing word當形容詞用時 oat means 'made from oats,'oat 的意思是「燕麥做的」 the pale grain used for porridge, biscuits, and drinks那種用來做粥、餅乾、飲料的淡色穀物 We put it in front of another noun我們把它放在另一個名詞前面：oat milk, oat bran, oat flour, oat cookies像 oat milk（燕麥奶）、oat bran（燕麥麩）、oat flour（燕麥粉）、oat cookies（燕麥餅乾） It tells you the food came from that grain它告訴你這個食物是那種穀物做的 not from wheat or rice不是小麥或米做的
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.
Though actually不過其實 English is a bit untidy here英文在這裡有點不整齊 When we talk about the grain as food當我們把這種穀物當食物來講 we nearly always use the plural oats幾乎都用複數 oats："I eat oats in the morning."「I eat oats in the morning」（我早上吃燕麥） The short form oat is what sits in front of another word單數的 oat 則是用在另一個字前面的形式 You would not usually say 'this bread is oat'你通常不會說「this bread is oat」；you say 'oat bread' or 'bread made of oats.'你會說「oat bread」或「bread made of oats」 One single seed can be called an oat一顆燕麥籽可以叫 an oat but shop talk and breakfast talk run on oats and on compounds like oatmeal但商店和早餐的說法都是用 oats，以及像 oatmeal（燕麥片）這樣的複合詞
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.
The grain name is very old這個穀物的名字很古老：from Old English āte源自古英文的 āte from a Germanic word for a swelling or little lump再源自日耳曼語裡表示「腫塊、小疙瘩」的字 — the grain sits on the plant like a small nodule因為這顆穀粒長在植物上就像一個小結節 The 'made of oats' use「made of oats（燕麥做的）」這個用法 is simply that grain-word borrowed to describe food只是把這個穀物的字借來形容食物
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，原文照列，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/
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Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa.
- The oat stalks made good straw.
- The main forms of oat are meal and bran.
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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.
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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.
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A simple musical pipe made of oat-straw.
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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：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。