grain

noun · verbA2

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noun

Plural noun:

grainsgrane

1.
(uncountable)The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
We stored a thousand tons of grain for the winter.
2.
(uncountable)Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
3.
(countable)A single seed of grass food crops.
a grain of wheat
grains of oat
4.
(countable, uncountable)The crops from which grain is harvested.
The fields were planted with grain.
5.
(uncountable)A linear texture of a material or surface.
Cut along the grain of the wood.
He doesn't like to shave against the grain.
6.
(countable)A single particle of a substance.
a grain of sand
a grain of salt
7.
(countable) Any of various small units of mass originally notionally based on grain's weight, variously standardized at different places and times, including
8.
(countable, historical)(countable, chiefly historical) Any of various small units of length originally notionally based on a grain's width, variously standardized at different places and times.
9.
(countable, historical)The carat grain of ¹⁄₄ carat as a measure of gold purity, creating a 96-point scale between 0% and 100% purity.
10.
(countable, uncountable)(materials) A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
11.
(countable, uncountable)(astronautics) The solid piece of fuel in an individual solid-fuel rocket engine.
12.
(countable, uncountable)A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple.
[…] doing as the dyers do, who, having first dipped their silks in colours of less value, then give them the last tincture of crimson in grain.

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verb

V_es/s

grains

V_ing/Gerund

graining

V_ed/pp

grained

1.
(transitive)To feed grain to.
2.
(transitive)To make granular; to form into grains.
3.
(intransitive)To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
4.
To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
5.
(tanning) To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
6.
(tanning) To soften leather.
7.
To yield fruit.

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ine-pro From Middle English greyn, grayn, grein, from Old French grain, grein, from Latin grānum (seed), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (grain). corn gram granum grao.