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# oatmeal

«oatmeal» in Mova's school dictionary: **Oats that have been crushed or ground, used to make…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (oatmeal — uncountable); adjective (oatmeal — a colour)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Oats that have been crushed or ground, used to make porridge, oatcakes and biscuits. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oatmeal/#m1)

2) (USA, Canada) Hot porridge made from oats. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oatmeal/#m2)

3) A pale greyish-brown colour, like oats: an oatmeal jumper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oatmeal/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Everyday food word: oatmeal for breakfast, oatmeal cookies. In science and health: oats give slow energy and fibre. Colour words in shops: oatmeal carpet. Old stories of Scotland and the north of England mention oatmeal as a main food.

### examples

- I eat a bowl of oatmeal before school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oatmeal/#x1)
- Gran makes oatmeal cookies with raisins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oatmeal/#x2)
- The Scots made oatcakes from oatmeal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oatmeal/#x3)
- The sofa is an oatmeal colour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oatmeal/#x4)
- Add milk to the oatmeal and stir. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oatmeal/#x5)
- Oatmeal keeps you full all morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oatmeal/#x6)
- So she baked two oatmeal bannocks, and set them on to the fire to harden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oatmeal/#x7)

### note

Uncountable: some oatmeal, a bowl of oatmeal. In the UK «porridge» is the cooked dish and «oatmeal» the ground oats; in North America «oatmeal» is used for both.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «oatmeal» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oatmeal/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.