Oat vs Barely - What's the difference?
oat | barely |
(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.
(degree) By a small margin.
* 1748 , , Oxford University Press (1973), section 8:
* 1925 , Walter Anthony and Tom Reed (titles), Rupert Julian (director), The Phantom of the Opera , silent movie
(degree) Almost not at all.
* {{quote-news, year=2011
, date=October 23
, author=Phil McNulty
, title=Man Utd 1 - 6 Man City
, work=BBC Sport
(archaic) merely.
* 1661 , , page 29,
As a noun oat
is widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa.As an adverb barely is
by a small margin.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 .
Derived terms
* animated oat * oatmeal * rolled oats * be off one's oats * feel one's oats * sow one's wild oats * wild red oatSee also
* branAnagrams
* * * ----barely
English
Adverb
(-)- It becomes, therefore, no inconsiderable part of science barely to know the different operations of mind,
- ‘It is barely possible you may hear of a ghost, a Phantom of the Opera!’
- The plane is so far away now I can barely see it.
- Yes, it is barely visible.
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- Now that fire do's not alwayes barely separate the Elementary parts, but sometimes at least alter also the Ingredients of Bodies