Grain Definition
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Wikipedia has articles on: Grain and Wood grain Mixed grain—the harvested seeds A close-up of wood grain—texture of materialEtymology
From Old French grein, from Latin grānum, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵrHnom (“grain”). Compare English corn.
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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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Verb
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.
Translations
to feed grain to
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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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grain m. (plural grains)
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