grain
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Old French grein, from Latin granum (“‘seed’”).
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɡɹeɪn/
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- Rhymes: -eɪn
[edit] Noun
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grain (countable and uncountable; plural grains)
- (uncountable) The harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
- We stored a thousand tons of grain for the winter.
- (countable) A single seed of grain.
- a grain of wheat
- (countable, uncountable) The crops from which grain is harvested.
- The fields were planted with grain.
- (uncountable) A linear texture of a material or surface.
- Cut along the grain of the wood.
- (countable) A single particle of a substance.
- a grain of sand
- a grain of salt
- (uncountable) A very small unit of weight, in England equal to 1/480 of an ounce troy, 0.0648 grams or, to be more exact, 64.79891 milligrams. A carat grain or pearl grain is 1/4 carat or 50 milligrams. The old French grain was 1/9216 livre or 53.11 milligrams, and in the mesures usuelles permitted from 1812 to 1839, with the livre redefined as 500 grams, it was 54.25 milligrams.
- (materials) A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
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harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops
single seed of grain
the crops from which grain is harvested
linear texture of material or surface
single particle of a substance
unit of weight
materials: region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction
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[edit] Verb
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to grain (third-person singular simple present grains, present participle graining, simple past and past participle grained)
- To feed grain to.
- To make granular; to form into grains.
- To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
- (tanning) To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
- (tanning) To soften leather.
[edit] External links
- grain in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- grain in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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[edit] Noun
grain m. (plural grains)
