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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
oats
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
wild
▪ Some sowing of wild oats is approved of, indeed positively welcomed in certain circles and settings.
▪ Sons sow wild oats and daughters risk being ruined.
▪ He's sown all his wild oats.
■ NOUN
porridge
▪ Margaret fed me porridge oats dusty with salt.
▪ Crush the cornflakes and mix with the porridge oats, then sprinkle over the fruit.
■ VERB
roll
▪ If you can not get oat or rice bran, try substituting rolled oats.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sow your wild oats
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As invaders from the United States began to rove the valley, they helped complete the oats conquest.
▪ Besides wheat, the program will aid growers of crops like oats or barley who use their land for grazing.
▪ If you can not get oat or rice bran, try substituting rolled oats.
▪ Not particularly appetizing, but not necessarily enough to put you off your oats, either.
▪ She dressed her makeshift altar with a necklace of twisted corn, two jam-jars stuffed with bouquets of oats and barley.
▪ The oats price is weaker than that for wheat, reflecting the current poor market for oats generally.
▪ The pigeons, puffed, sullen, full of oats and spring thoughts, kept their distance.
▪ Wheat and rye and barley and oats ripened in the sun.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Oats

Oat \Oat\ ([=o]t), n.; pl. Oats ([=o]ts). [OE. ote, ate, AS.

  1. (Bot.) A well-known cereal grass ( Avena sativa), and its edible grain, used as food and fodder; -- commonly used in the plural and in a collective sense.

  2. A musical pipe made of oat straw. [Obs.] --Milton. Animated oats or Animal oats (Bot.), A grass ( Avena sterilis) much like oats, but with a long spirally twisted awn which coils and uncoils with changes of moisture, and thus gives the grains an apparently automatic motion. Oat fowl (Zo["o]l.), the snow bunting; -- so called from its feeding on oats. [Prov. Eng.] Oat grass (Bot.), the name of several grasses more or less resembling oats, as Danthonia spicata, Danthonia sericea, and Arrhenatherum avenaceum, all common in parts of the United States. To feel one's oats,

    1. to be conceited or self-important. [Slang]

    2. to feel lively and energetic.

      To sow one's wild oats, to indulge in youthful dissipation.
      --Thackeray.

      Wild oats (Bot.), a grass ( Avena fatua) much resembling oats, and by some persons supposed to be the original of cultivated oats.

Wiktionary
oats

n. 1 (plural of oat English) 2 Seeds of an oat plant.

Wikipedia
OATS

OATS ("Open Source Assistive Technology Software") is a source code repository or " forge" for assistive technology software. It was launched in 2006 with the goal to provide a one-stop “shop” for end users, clinicians and open-source developers to promote and develop open source assistive technology software. It also allows users to find other software that is free but not open source, and open-source software that is developed elsewhere, for example NVDA, Orca and FireVox.

The OATS website was launched at the end of the OATS project, a one-year pilot project that ended in March 2006, and claimed to be the first open-source repository dedicated to assistive technology. In April 2006, the British Computer Society (BCS) announced that it was backing the OATS project; in August 2006, the British Computer Society's Open Source Specialist Group organised a meeting about the project.

The OATS project was made up of five partner organisations co-ordinated by the ACE Centre. The OATS repository wants to offer an efficient and intuitive way to access good quality assistive technology. The OATS repository offers the following facilities to developers:

  • project pages to document and manage a software project,
  • a code repository ( Subversion),
  • a project management system ( Trac or Poi).
Oats (horse)

Oats (1973–1990) was an Irish-bred British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He showed promise as a two-year-old before establishing himself as one of the best British colts of his generation in the following year when he won the Blue Riband Trial Stakes and finished third in the Epsom Derby. As a four-year-old he won the Jockey Club Stakes and the Ormonde Stakes before his career was ended by injury. After his retirement he became a very successful sire of National Hunt horses.

Usage examples of "oats".

The Very Reverend Mekkle, who'd taken Pastoral Practice, had advised that the rules about starch were only really a guideline, but Oats hadn't wanted to put a foot wrong and his collar could have been used as a razor.

Behind her, Mightily Oats had got up and was inspecting the food suspiciously.

Perdita had got through on that one, but Oats didn't seem to have noticed.

Agnes thought of all the things that were rumoured to be in the mountains, and dragged Oats after her like a badly hitched cart.

Most of the time even I don't know what I'm thinking,' said Oats miserably.

Now Agnes and Oats sat on either side of it, listening to the distant sounds of Hodgesaargh feeding the birds.

The wowhawk fluttered up and perched on a beam, and if Oats had been paying attention he'd have wondered how a hooded bird could fly so confidently.

At the back of his mind Oats thought he could hear the sound of hooves, slowly approaching.

It had replaced swords with sermons, which at least caused fewer deaths except in the case of the really very long ones, and had broken the Church into a thousand pieces which had then started arguing with one another and finally turned out Oats, who argued with himself.

For a moment they seemed to Oats to have red pupils, and then the icy blue gaze focused on him.

Then Oats reached out and snatched the child from the vampire's unresisting hands.

Verence nodded regally at oats to signal that whatever it was that he intended ought to start around now.

Some of his fellow students had spent hours carefully ruffling the pages to give them that certain straight-and-narrow credibility, but Oats had refrained from this as well.

It was the Oats that read avidly and always remembered those passages which cast doubt on the literal truth of the Book of Om — and nudged him and said, if this isn't true, what can you believe?

White has a man working for him named Tim Oats, a very rough man, sir.