CEREAL


Meaning of CEREAL in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a soup/cereal/pudding bowl (= for eating soup, cereal etc from )

These work well as pasta or cereal bowls.

breakfast cereal

Many breakfast cereals are high in sugar.

the wheat/cereal/rice etc crop

In January farmers prepare the ground for the potato crop.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

other

Rolled oats, bran, and other ready-to-feed cereals are stored in 44-gallon drums with lids.

Rye is very tolerant of poor, acid soils, is extremely frost-hardy and ripens much earlier than other cereals .

Unlike other cereals , rye is cross-fertilized and does not remain true to type.

It is not widely grown in Britain, as it requires strong land and considerably higher temperatures than other cereals .

■ NOUN

bowl

She carried the cereal bowls and the knives and forks to the sink.

I rinse the cereal bowl and leave it in the kitchen sink for tonight.

Place freshly ground coffee in cereal bowls inside the refrigerator for several days.

These promotional items are wonderful collectibles and range from stuffed animals and dolls to cereal bowls and kitchen utensils.

To serve, measure a few tablespoons of mixture into a cereal bowl and add milk.

Some one lays out the cereal bowls .

box

Who knows, we might soon see the big screen's first cereal box adaptation.

Oregon cereal box collector Thomas Szczesniak has traded for several of the Cornhusker boxes.

Even readers whose knowledge of the written word comes from cereal boxes are familiar with metaphors using battlefields and quicksand.

Collecting cereal boxes is becoming a rage.

Through a word-of-mouth network and Internet chatting, cereal box collectors negotiate for new boxes.

breakfast

In the supermarkets of Colombo and Kandy, Puffa-Puffa-rice breakfast cereal is on sale for the equivalent of three dollars a packet.

Some products that bear freshness dates are cheeses, breakfast cereals , bakery products, and mayonnaise.

Bread, rolls, breakfast cereal , bananas and fried fruit are ideal.

It was when I went on breakfast cereals that liquor got me.

If more is needed, try a breakfast cereal that contains bran, or sprinkle bran over another cereal.

Euell Gibbons once claimed on my living room television that some breakfast cereal tasted like hickory nuts.

The week's snow has become crusty and it yields underfoot, with a crunch like breakfast cereal .

Most over-the-counter breakfast cereals have 2 to 4 grams of fiber, and high-fiber cereals have up to 9 grams.

crop

Millet was still the primary cereal crop .

An even later flight to assess late senescence of the cereal crops might be undertaken this year.

In the cold, wet northern and western parts of the country it is by far the most reliable cereal crop .

The biggest losers will be cotton, cattle and cereal crops .

packet

He looked at the cereal packets .

Make your own kidney dialysis machine using an old cereal packet , some Sellotape and a used toilet roll.

Some noticed that the cereal packets were wider or longer than soap packets.

price

Grain-based cereal prices already have come under fire from Capitol Hill, with a report in mid-March by Reps.

A recent Bureau of Labor Statistics report concluded that retail cereal prices have risen 93 percent from 1983 to 1996&038;.

production

The study suggests that world cereal production in 2060 will be between 1 and 7 percent lower than today's levels.

Wine formed the most important cash crop, while cereal production generally took the form of subsistence farming.

It is estimated that world cereal production , which totalled billion tonnes in 1990, will top 3.25 billion tonnes by 2060.

Similarly, cereal production per acre of arable land is indicative of the comparative efficiency of agricultural practices.

Suppose the level of cereal production remains the same over the years while the rate of population growth accelerates.

■ VERB

eat

Back at the house Philip made himself some tea and ate some cereal .

Taking its place is a breakfast of whole-grain breads and high-fiber, ready-to-\#eat cereals .

I sit down in the armchair and eat my cereal .

Weird Beard says, Eat your cereal with a fork.

Most people would only eat bran with breakfast cereal .

I woke one morning to find him eating cereal out of a saucepan.

grow

The island of Porto Santo grows cereals , vines, figs, market garden produce, melons and pumpkins.

They will grow good cereal crops so long as soil structure is maintained by the return of sufficient organic matter.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a bowl of cereal

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Eaten with milk or cream, they made an acceptable breakfast cereal .

Half of Britain's cereal farms rank among the big 300,000.

It seems as though every day a new kind of cereal appears on the grocery shelves.

Looking at the table we can see how low the calcium level is in cereals.

Lucky Charms Nestlé's kicking cereal .

Millet was still the primary cereal crop.

Some products that bear freshness dates are cheeses, breakfast cereals, bakery products, and mayonnaise.

Soon afterwards, he moved from livestock to cereal .

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