Oar vs Oat - What's the difference?
oar | oat |
An implement used to propel a boat or a ship in the water, having a flat blade at one end, being rowed from the other end and being normally fastened to the vessel.
An oarsman; a rower.
(zoology) An oar-like swimming organ of various invertebrates.
To row; to propel with oars.
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(uncountable) Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa .
(countable) Any of the numerous species, varieties, or cultivars of any of several similar grain plants in genus Avena .
(usually, as plural) The seeds of the oat, harvested as a food crop.
As nouns the difference between oar and oat
is that oar is an implement used to propel a boat or a ship in the water, having a flat blade at one end, being rowed from the other end and being normally fastened to the vessel while oat is widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa.As a verb oar
is to row; to propel with oars.oar
English
(wikipedia oar)Noun
(en noun)- He is a good oar .
Synonyms
* (implement used to propel a boat) paddleDerived terms
* stick one's oar inVerb
(en verb)- Turning the long tables upside down — and there were twelve of them — they seated themselves, one behind another, within the upturned table tops as though they were boats and were about to oar their way into some fabulous ocean.
Anagrams
* * * ----oat
English
(wikipedia oat)Noun
- The oat stalks made good straw.
- The main forms of oat are meal and bran.
- World trade in oat is increasing.
- The wild red oat''' is thought to be the ancestor of modern food '''oats .