different between oat vs pablum

English

Etymology

From Middle English ote, from Old English ?te, from Proto-Germanic *ait? (“swelling; gland; nodule”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?eyd- (“to swell”). See English atter.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?t, IPA^(key): /??t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /o?t/
• Homophone: ot-
• Rhymes: -??t

Noun

oat (countable and uncountable, plural oats)

1. (uncountable) Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa.

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

3. (usually as plural) The seeds of the oat, a grain, harvested as a food crop.
   • 1991, Cornelia M. Parkinson, Cooking with Oats: Oat Bran, Oatmeal, and More, Storey Publishing (?ISBN), page 2:

     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.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• bran

Further reading

• oat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• AOT, ATO, OTA, Ota, TAO, Tao, To'a, tao, toa

Finnish

Noun

oat

1. Nominative plural form of oka.

Anagrams

• ota, tao

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin p?bulum (“nourishment”), with the modern sense coming via the brand name Pablum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pæbl?m/

Noun

pablum (usually uncountable, plural pablums)

1. Anything overly bland or simplistic, especially speech or writing.
   • 1992, October 23rd, Daily Sentinel, Writer Likes Clinton, on page 2:

     The Republican argument today is pablum, mush and saccharine (which exhausts my edible metaphors).

2. (dated) Nourishment.

Translations