grainer

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹeɪ̯.nə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹeɪ̯.nɚ/

Etymology

From grain +‎ -er.

Noun

grainer (plural grainers)

1. A knife for taking the hair off skins.
2. An infusion of pigeon's dung used by tanners to neutralize the effects of lime and give flexibility to skins; -- called also grains and bate.
3. One who grains (paints in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc).
4. A brush or tool used for such painting.
5. (rail transportation, US) A type of railroad car that carries grain.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for grainer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

• Garnier, Granier, angrier, earring, rangier, rearing

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁe.ne/, /ɡʁɛ.ne/

Verb

grainer

1. to granulate
2. to seed

Conjugation

Conjugation of grainer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	grainer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	grainant /ɡʁɛ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		grainé /ɡʁɛ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	graine /ɡʁɛn/	graines /ɡʁɛn/	graine /ɡʁɛn/	grainons /ɡʁɛ.nɔ̃/	grainez /ɡʁɛ.ne/	grainent /ɡʁɛn/
	imperfect	grainais /ɡʁɛ.nɛ/	grainais /ɡʁɛ.nɛ/	grainait /ɡʁɛ.nɛ/	grainions /ɡʁɛ.njɔ̃/	grainiez /ɡʁɛ.nje/	grainaient /ɡʁɛ.nɛ/
	past historic2	grainai /ɡʁɛ.ne/	grainas /ɡʁɛ.na/	graina /ɡʁɛ.na/	grainâmes /ɡʁɛ.nam/	grainâtes /ɡʁɛ.nat/	grainèrent /ɡʁɛ.nɛʁ/
	future	grainerai /ɡʁɛn.ʁe/	graineras /ɡʁɛn.ʁa/	grainera /ɡʁɛn.ʁa/	grainerons /ɡʁɛn.ʁɔ̃/	grainerez /ɡʁɛn.ʁe/	graineront /ɡʁɛn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	grainerais /ɡʁɛn.ʁɛ/	grainerais /ɡʁɛn.ʁɛ/	grainerait /ɡʁɛn.ʁɛ/	grainerions /ɡʁɛ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	graineriez /ɡʁɛ.nə.ʁje/	graineraient /ɡʁɛn.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	graine /ɡʁɛn/	graines /ɡʁɛn/	graine /ɡʁɛn/	grainions /ɡʁɛ.njɔ̃/	grainiez /ɡʁɛ.nje/	grainent /ɡʁɛn/
	imperfect2	grainasse /ɡʁɛ.nas/	grainasses /ɡʁɛ.nas/	grainât /ɡʁɛ.na/	grainassions /ɡʁɛ.na.sjɔ̃/	grainassiez /ɡʁɛ.na.sje/	grainassent /ɡʁɛ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	graine /ɡʁɛn/	—	grainons /ɡʁɛ.nɔ̃/	grainez /ɡʁɛ.ne/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is only usable with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• grainage

Further reading

• “grainer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).