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corning
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Corn \Corn\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Corned (k?rnd); p. pr. & vb. n. Corning.]
To preserve and season with salt in grains; to sprinkle with salt; to cure by salting; now, specifically, to salt slightly in brine or otherwise; as, to corn beef; to corn a tongue.
To form into small grains; to granulate; as, to corn gunpowder.
To feed with corn or (in Sctland) oats; as, to corn horses.
--Jamieson.-
To render intoxicated; as, ale strong enough to corn one.
Corning house, a house or place where powder is corned or granulated.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of corn English)
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 1722
Land area (2000): 3.199269 sq. miles (8.286069 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.028421 sq. miles (0.073610 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.227690 sq. miles (8.359679 sq. km)
FIPS code: 15460
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 36.410057 N, 90.589364 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 72422
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Housing Units (2000): 2614
Land area (2000): 2.905249 sq. miles (7.524560 sq. km)
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Total area (2000): 2.905249 sq. miles (7.524560 sq. km)
FIPS code: 16322
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 39.926182 N, 122.180489 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 96021
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Housing Units (2000): 5509
Land area (2000): 3.107043 sq. miles (8.047205 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.170439 sq. miles (0.441435 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.277482 sq. miles (8.488640 sq. km)
FIPS code: 18256
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 42.148142 N, 77.056970 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 14830
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Housing Units (2000): 269
Land area (2000): 0.436003 sq. miles (1.129243 sq. km)
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Total area (2000): 0.436003 sq. miles (1.129243 sq. km)
FIPS code: 18770
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 39.604689 N, 82.088015 W
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Housing Units (2000): 880
Land area (2000): 1.574632 sq. miles (4.078277 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.003610 sq. miles (0.009351 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.578242 sq. miles (4.087628 sq. km)
FIPS code: 16500
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 40.991340 N, 94.737028 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 50841
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Housing Units (2000): 70
Land area (2000): 0.276672 sq. miles (0.716577 sq. km)
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Total area (2000): 0.276672 sq. miles (0.716577 sq. km)
FIPS code: 15725
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 39.656418 N, 96.030344 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 66417
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Housing Units (2000): 14
Land area (2000): 0.111152 sq. miles (0.287883 sq. km)
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Total area (2000): 0.111152 sq. miles (0.287883 sq. km)
FIPS code: 16462
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 40.249107 N, 95.454422 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 64435
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Wikipedia
Corning may refer to:
The Erie Railroad's station in Corning was first constructed in 1861 and was in use until a track bypass of Corning, proposed in 1937, was completed in 1952. The station was subsequently demolished.
Corning is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Edwin Corning (1883–1934), American businessman and politician
- Erastus Corning (1794–1872), American businessman and politician
- Erastus Corning 2nd (1909–1983), mayor of Albany, New York
- Howard Corning (1879–1924), Canadian cattle farmer and politician
- Parker Corning (1874–1943), U.S. Representative from New York
- Peter Corning (born 1935), American biologist, consultant, and complex systems scientist
- Ron Corning (born 1971) American television host
- Thomas E. Corning (1842–1912), Canadian lawyer and politician
Usage examples of "corning".
The professional politicians corning to the fore in the twenties and thirties, though sometimes self-made, were seldom ordinary.
But as far as we are concerned, I am pretty sure of being able to pick up enough truly able-bodied seamen paid off from King's ships with the corning of peace to form a strong crew, capable of fighting the ship.
He put his long, lupine face so close to Kurgan's that Kurgan could smell the mingled scent of clove oil and burnt musk corning off him in waves.
Tommy's searching eyes soon caught sight of the double black line of coaxial cables corning to the surface a few feet to his left, umbilical cords leading to feed-through connectors mounted on the curved top of the fuselage toward the tail section, transmission lines that led to the 2-meter and 15-20-40-meter antennas mounted on the 40-foot aluminum tower close by on the forested mountainside.
Certainly it had nothing to do with the ship's name: one could not spend twenty years at sea, first in the Royal Navy and then in the Merchant Service, without corning across some of the most singular names in the world.
Condon was a distinguished American physicist, a pioneer in quantum mechanics, a participant in the development of radar and nuclear weapons in World War II, research director of Corning Glass, director of the National Bureau of Standards, and president of the American Physical Society (as well as, late in his life, professor of physics at the University of Colorado, where he directed a controversial Air Force-funded scientific study of UFOs).