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UK
/ɡɹˈeɪn/
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[ US /ˈɡɹeɪn/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɹeɪn/ ]
VERB
- paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood
- form into grains
- become granular
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thoroughly work in
His hands were grained with dirt
NOUN
- dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
- the side of leather from which the hair has been removed
- a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat
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the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance)
fish with a delicate flavor and texture
sand of a fine grain
breadfruit has the same texture as bread
a stone of coarse grain - foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
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a cereal grass
wheat is a grain that is grown in Kansas -
a relatively small granular particle of a substance
a grain of sand
a grain of sugar - 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams
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the smallest possible unit of anything
there was a grain of truth in what he said
he does not have a grain of sense -
the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric
saw the board across the grain - 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams
How To Use grain In A Sentence
- The film print is extremely clean with only a little bit of grain.
- Gwenhidwy likes to drink a lot, grain alcohol mostly, mixed in great strange mad-scientist concoctions with beef tea, grenadine, cough syrup, bitter belch-gathering infusions of blue scullcap, valerian root, motherwort and lady's-slipper, whatever's to hand really. Gravity's Rainbow
- Cut along the grain of the wood.
- When we gather it grain by grain, we soon have a basketful.
- By the end of the winter the supply of grain was severely depleted.
- Cut the beef across the grain into paper thin slices.
- Much of his work is done on basswood, which is a softer wood with no apparent grain. The Albert Lea Tribune
- Each day we make countless choices and live out deeply ingrained habits that all add up to a lifestyle. Christianity Today
- They occur when a layer of unconsolidated sediment is fluidized and transport of fluid and suspended grains takes place through overlying sediment to the sediment-water interface.
- Sasaki huddled against the hot grains of sand, gritting her teeth, curled up in a ball and hugging her shoulders as if to keep herself from ripping apart.
