noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a corn/wheat/rice etc field
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In summer the rice fields were lush and green.
a field of corn/wheat/rice etc
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The road was surrounded by fields of corn.
the corn/cotton/wheat belt (= where corn/cotton etc is grown )
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Western Australia's wheat belt
the wheat/cereal/rice etc crop
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In January farmers prepare the ground for the potato crop.
white/wholemeal/rice/wheat etc flour
whole wheat
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
hard
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There are about six types of high-gluten flour, some made with hard spring wheat and some with hard winter wheat.
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Generally, the harder the wheat the better it is for bread; the softer wheats are better for pastries.
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Try your natural foods market and, if it does not have unbleached high-gluten flour, ask for hard spring wheat flour.
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This is hard red number-one wheat .
red
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This is hard red number-one wheat .
whole
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Add whole wheat flour and all-purpose flour and stir.
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And we know all the toast was white -- hey, we ran out of whole wheat and rye and muffins.
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No, not the whole wheat .
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More whole wheat usually means a slightly heavier bread that has a tighter gluten network but is perfectly satisfy-ing.
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There are also recipes that use only whole wheat flour yet yield a fairly light loaf.
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Mastering Macintosh would be as simple as dropping a couple of pieces of whole wheat into the Sunbeam.
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Maybe the Dakota appeals to you -- a whole wheat bread with millet, sunflower, pumpkin and sesame seeds added.
■ NOUN
beer
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This is a style of wheat beer that I especially enjoy, with its teasing counterpoint of tartness and chocolate-malt sweetness.
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Some of the wilder wheat beers might taste odd to the uninitiated, but not to people who grew up with them.
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The company was acquired last year by the regional brewer Riva, best known for its Dentergens wheat beer .
bread
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Whether it is white bread or wheat bread, it is, to be kind, mediocre bread.
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Making good wheat bread is a satisfying experience for a number of reasons.
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Maybe the Dakota appeals to you -- a whole wheat bread with millet, sunflower, pumpkin and sesame seeds added.
crop
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Further away in commercialisation terms, work on lentils at Reading University suggests that following wheat crops would have lower N requirements.
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Winter wheat crop reported to be in fair-to-good condition.
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Straw from the previous wheat crop was chopped and spread before the heavy soil was deep cultivated.
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The Agriculture Department said Monday the wheat crop in 19 states is in poor or very poor condition.
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The problems of a poor wheat crop were overcome and record volumes were produced at both mills in the fourth quarter.
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In some sections of Sonora, the disease affects more than half of the wheat crop , Bowden said.
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The former manor spread over several parishes, with a particular emphasis on sheep farming backed up by a large wheat crop .
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Already, 40 percent of Texas' wheat crop has been lost.
farmer
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He may however increase the annual payment to wheat farmers under the five-year phase out plan of the old farming policy.
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So in Britain in the 1870s many wheat farmers went over to meat production.
field
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Suggestions that he could avoid the damage by protecting the wheat fields with electric fencing do not impress Mr Berry.
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But the scientists also will consider whether additional wheat fields should be quarantined and destroyed to contain the spores.
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Then it flies off, with characteristic bounding flight, across a wheat field and into a wood.
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In Arizona, less than 10 percent of wheat fields are quarantined.
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Walking alongside a wheat field , admiring the vibrancy of poppies scattered in sparse splashes of scarlet, I spot something remarkable.
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They had new weeding tractors and their wheat fields were still being run over by weeds.
flour
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Many people react adversely to gluten, present in wheat flour .
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Try your natural foods market and, if it does not have unbleached high-gluten flour , ask for hard spring wheat flour.
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Add whole wheat flour and all-purpose flour and stir.
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There are also recipes that use only whole wheat flour yet yield a fairly light loaf.
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As this is not always available, I've used wheat flour .
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Mina is carrying the wheat flour in a bronze plate and the oil in a smaller bronze bowl bedded inside it.
harvest
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This led to a famine and a delay in the wheat harvest of 2 months.
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By the 1880s half the wheat harvest was being exported.
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At last the green straw, which had plagued wheat harvest from the start, had disappeared.
price
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This dilemma has become more acute now that wheat prices tend to behave unpredictably.
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On other markets, coffee and wheat prices also rose.
production
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Their combined wheat production fell from 80 million tons in 1968 to 60 million in 1970.
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Total national wheat production is expected to rise by 2 % year on year to 2.56 billion bushels.
winter
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The fields he could see from the window of Kirsham primary school rustled with winter wheat .
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Holiday sales were slightly above 1994 levels. Winter wheat crop reported to be in fair-to-good condition.
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But, under winter wheat , the income would be £9600.
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There are about six types of high-gluten flour, some made with hard spring wheat and some with hard winter wheat.
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Another herbicide, Isoproturon, is in much wider use as a means of controlling the blackgrass weed which affects winter wheat .
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In addition, a 7 percent increase in the winter wheat crop acres raised hope stockpiles would rise later this year.
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The ground used was where herbicide in the previous winter wheat had failed to provide any real control of blackgrass.
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Already the young farmer has lost more than half his winter wheat crop to a crippling drought.
■ VERB
cut
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I left the trip until late July, of the local farmers cut their wheat and barley at the beginning of August.
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Mountains cut into terraces with wheat , maize and rice.
grow
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Tests have shown that desert soil treated with the gel can grow rice and wheat .
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Our earlier illustration indicated that Nebraska grows wheat to which its resources are suited and similarly Florida grows oranges.
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Out came Dakota farmers who despaired at the meager profits they made growing wheat .
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We grew wheat and made flour.
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How does the climate seem to affect the choice of farmers in deciding where in Britain to grow wheat ?
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William helps the farmer next to us and he is disappointed because he grows really good wheat and spuds and cabbages.
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Most holdings grew their own wheat and every village boasted a mill.
produce
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Bullock power to produce wheat is very inefficient.
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Boise may produce wheat , while Boston produces computers.
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Which team can produce the best wheat gross margin without spending the earth?
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If column 2 exceeds column 3, a producer will continue to produce wheat .
sell
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Having an option doesn't have to affect how you physically sell wheat , or your relationship with local merchants.
separate
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This gives the courts a useful power to separate the wheat from the chaff among the pending cases.
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But Pavelic said experienced detectives can quickly separate the wheat from the chaff.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For example, one year Marvin Lugar allowed the children to buy one acre of wheat with their savings.
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He may however increase the annual payment to wheat farmers under the five-year phase out plan of the old farming policy.
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I am absolutely not going to drill any second wheat land before October, unless flooding is forecast.
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In addition, a 7 percent increase in the winter wheat crop acres raised hope stockpiles would rise later this year.
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In Arizona, less than 10 percent of wheat fields are quarantined.
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In mid-March, at the Chicago Board of Trade, a bubble in the wheat pit sent prices flying.
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Straw from the previous wheat crop was chopped and spread before the heavy soil was deep cultivated.
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This land was dry-farmed, and those weeds were using precious rainfall that was needed by the wheat .