wheat

Word family adjectivewheatenwheatynounwheatfieldwheatgrasswheatmealwheat

Related topics: Food, Agriculture, Crops

wheat /wiːt/ noun [uncountableU]

1 DFTAthe grain that bread is made from, or the plant that it grows on 小麦

a field of wheat

小麦地

2. separate the wheat from the chaff CHOOSEto choose the good and useful things or people and get rid of the others 分清好坏，去芜存菁

Examples from the Corpus

wheat• For example, one year Marvin Lugar allowed the children to buy one acre of wheat with their savings.• In Arizona, less than 10 percent of wheat fields are quarantined.• Straw from the previous wheat crop was chopped and spread before the heavy soil was deep cultivated.• I am absolutely not going to drill any second wheat land before October, unless flooding is forecast.• This land was dry-farmed, and those weeds were using precious rainfall that was needed by the wheat.• In mid-March, at the Chicago Board of Trade, a bubble in the wheat pit sent prices flying.• He may however increase the annual payment to wheat farmers under the five-year phase out plan of the old farming policy.• In addition, a 7 percent increase in the winter wheat crop acres raised hope stockpiles would rise later this year.

Origin wheat

Old English hwæte

词汇	wheat
释义	wheat Word family adjectivewheatenwheatynounwheatfieldwheatgrasswheatmealwheat Related topics: Food, Agriculture, Crops wheat /wiːt/ ●●○ noun [uncountableU] 1 DFTAthe grain that bread is made from, or the plant that it grows on 小麦 a field of wheat 小麦地 2. separate the wheat from the chaff CHOOSEto choose the good and useful things or people and get rid of the others 分清好坏，去芜存菁 Examples from the Corpus wheat• For example, one year Marvin Lugar allowed the children to buy one acre of wheat with their savings.• In Arizona, less than 10 percent of wheat fields are quarantined.• Straw from the previous wheat crop was chopped and spread before the heavy soil was deep cultivated.• I am absolutely not going to drill any second wheat land before October, unless flooding is forecast.• This land was dry-farmed, and those weeds were using precious rainfall that was needed by the wheat.• In mid-March, at the Chicago Board of Trade, a bubble in the wheat pit sent prices flying.• He may however increase the annual payment to wheat farmers under the five-year phase out plan of the old farming policy.• In addition, a 7 percent increase in the winter wheat crop acres raised hope stockpiles would rise later this year. Origin wheat Old English hwæte
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