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Straw is yellow and is used for animal bedding or to absorb animal waste in their stalls... later it is to be thrown on a manure pile and once it breaks down to a kind of compost makes a great fertilizer for plants.
Straw is baled after the seed is harvested from the wheat plant... Straw is essentially the hollow dried stalks of the wheat plant and some leaves.
Personally, I've never heard of it being made from corn but I don't know everything :-)
Straw bales are used as an alternative building material for houses.... the houses are quite beautiful and energy efficient.
Hay is greenish and is baled after the grass (usually alfalfa or other clover type grass has been cut. This baled hay (which is essentially dried grass) is then used to feed animals like horses and cows in the winter when they mostly stay indoors and aren't able to go grazing.
In a nutshell...
Hay is food and straw is bedding...for livestock.
Hay is dried grass and straw is dried wheat (or similar).
Hay is much cooler - you never heard the Fonz say "Straw!" now did you?
Hay is dried grass, straw ts the stem from wheat and corn
I would like to send you to the chemist for tablets for Straw Fever
straw is from corn,wheat etc and hay is grass from open fields or side of tracks that is mown for fodder to feed animals
one is called straw and one is called hay.basicly they have different names
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straw /strɔ/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[straw] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1. a single stalk or stem, esp. of certain species of grain, chiefly wheat, rye, oats, and barley.
2. a mass of such stalks, esp. after drying and threshing, used as fodder.
3. material, fibers, etc., made from such stalks, as used for making hats or baskets.
4. the negligible value of one such stalk; trifle; least bit: not to care a straw.
5. a tube, usually of paper or glass, for sucking up a beverage from a container: to sip lemonade through a straw.
6. anything of possible but dubious help in a desperate circumstance.
7. straw man (def. 2).
8. a straw hat.
–adjective 9. of, pertaining to, containing, or made of straw: a straw hat.
10. of the color of straw; pale yellow.
11. of little value or consequence; worthless.
12. sham; fictitious.
—Idioms13. catch, clutch, or grasp at a straw, at straws, or at any straw or straws, to seize at any chance, no matter how slight, of saving oneself from calamity.
14. draw straws, to decide by lottery using straws or strawlike items of different lengths, usually with the short straw or straws determining the person chosen or the loser.
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[Origin: bef. 950; ME; OE stréaw; c. G Stroh; akin to strew]
—Related forms
strawless, adjective
strawlike, adjective
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n.
Stalks of threshed grain, used as bedding and food for animals, for thatching, and for weaving or braiding, as into baskets.
A single stalk of threshed grain.
Something of minimal value or importance.
Something with too little substance to provide support in a crisis: Near the end we were grasping at straws.
Something, such as a hat or basket, made of straw.
A slender tube used for sucking up a liquid.
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hay /heɪ/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[hey] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1. grass, clover, alfalfa, etc., cut and dried for use as forage.
2. grass mowed or intended for mowing.
3. Slang. a. a small sum of money: Twenty dollars an hour for doing very little certainly ain't hay.
b. money: A thousand dollars for a day's work is a lot of hay!
4. Slang. marijuana.
–verb (used with object) 5. to convert (plant material) into hay.
6. to furnish (horses, cows, etc.) with hay.
–verb (used without object) 7. to cut grass, clover, or the like, and store for use as forage.
—Idioms8. a roll in the hay, Slang. sexual intercourse.
9. hit the hay, Informal. to go to bed: It got to be past midnight before anyone thought of hitting the hay.
10. in the hay, in bed; retired, esp. for the night: By ten o'clock he's in the hay.
11. make hay of, to scatter in disorder; render ineffectual: The destruction of the manuscript made hay of two years of painstaking labor.
12. make hay while the sun shines, to seize an opportunity when it presents itself: If you want to be a millionaire, you have to make hay while the sun shines. Also, make hay.
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[Origin: bef. 900; ME; OE hég; c. G Heu, ON hey, Goth hawi. See hew]
—Related forms
hayey, adjective
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Hay /heɪ/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[hey] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1. John Milton, 1838–1905, U.S. statesman and author.
2. a river in NW Canada, flowing NE to the Great Slave Lake. 530 mi. (853 km) long.
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source hay (hā) Pronunciation Key
n.
Grass or other plants, such as clover or alfalfa, cut and dried for fodder.
Slang A trifling amount of money: gets $100 an hour, which isn't hay.
v. hayed, hay·ing, hays
v. intr.
To mow and cure grass and herbage for hay.
v. tr.
To make (grass) into hay.
To feed with hay.
[Middle English, from Old English hīeg; see kau- in Indo-European roots.]
hay'er n.
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American public official and writer who served as ambassador to Great Britain (1897-1898) and U.S. secretary of state (1898-1905). His literary works include poetry and a life of Abraham Lincoln (1890).
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hay
"grass mown," O.E. heg (Anglian), hieg, hig (W.Saxon) "grass cut or mown for fodder," from P.Gmc. *khaujan (cf. O.N. hey, O.Fris. ha, M.Du. hoy, Ger. Heu, Goth. hawi "hay"), lit. "that which is cut," or "that which can be mowed," from PIE *kau- "to hew, strike" (cf. O.E. heawan "to cut"). Hay-fever is from 1829; earlier it was called summer catarrh. Hayseed is from 1577 in the literal sense of "grass seed shaken out of hay;" in U.S. slang sense of "comical rustic" it dates from 1851. Haymaker in the sense of "very strong blow with the fist" is from 1912, probably in imitation of the wide swinging stroke of a scythe. Slang phrase hit the hay (pre-1880) was originally "to sleep in a barn;" hay in the general fig. sense of "bedding" (e.g. roll in the hay) is from 1903.
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noun
1. grass mowed and cured for use as fodder
verb
1. convert (plant material) into hay
Something of minimal value or importance.
Something with too little substance to provide support in a crisis: Near the end we were grasping at straws.
adj.
Of, relating to, or made of straw: a straw mat.
Containing or used for straw, as a barn or feeding trough.
Of the color of straw; yellowish.
Having little or no value or substance; unimportant.
Of, relating to, or constituting a straw man.
[Middle English, from Old English strēaw; see ster-2 in Indo-European roots.]
straw'y adj.
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straw
O.E. streaw "stems or stalks of certain cereals," lit. "that which is scattered or strewn," related to streowian (see strew), from P.Gmc. *strawam "that which is scattered" (cf. O.N. stra, Dan. straa, Swed. strå, O.Fris. stre, O.Du., O.H.G. stro, Ger. Stroh "straw"), from PIE *stere- "to spread" (see structure). The notion is of dried grain stalks strewn on a floor as carpeting or bedding. As a type of what is trifling or unimportant, attested from c.1290. Meaning "hollow tube through which a drink is sucked" is recorded from 1851. To draw straws as a means of deciding something is recorded from 1832. The last straw is from the proverb of the camel. Man of straw "imaginary opponent" is recorded from 1624. Straw poll is from 1932; earlier straw vote (1866). Straw hat first attested 1453. To clutch (or grasp or catch) at straws (1748) is what a drowning man proverbially would do.
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WordNet - Cite This Source straw
adjective
1. of a pale yellow color like straw; straw-colored
noun
1. plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder
2. material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds [syn: chaff]
3. a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white [syn: pale yellow]
4. a thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth
verb
1. cover or provide with or as if with straw; "cows were strawed to weather the snowstorm"
2. spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic); "strew toys all over the carpet" [syn: strew]
You can't suck your milkshake with a bale of hay!
and you can't imagine Joey (off Friends) saying
"Straw, how'r YOU doin?"
I only posted to say that Gigi had absolutely the best answer. I agree completely.
Hay is dried grass and straw is dried wheat!
have you met Jack Hay?
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