grain

Meaning of grain

noun
  1. The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
    We stored a thousand tons of grain for the winter.
  2. Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
  3. A single seed of grass food crops.
    a grain of wheat
  4. The crops from which grain is harvested.
    The fields were planted with grain.
  5. A linear texture of a material or surface.
    Cut along the grain of the wood.
  6. A single particle of a substance.
    a grain of salt
  7. 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 (0.002285714 avoirdupois ounce). 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.
  8. A former unit of gold purity, also known as carat grain, equal to 1/4 "carat" (karat).
  9. (materials) A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
  10. 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.
  11. The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
  12. (in the plural) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called draff.
  13. A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock.
  14. Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
  15. (videography) Visual texture in processed photographic film due to the presence of small particles of a metallic silver, or dye clouds, developed from silver halide that have received enough photons.
verb
  1. To feed grain to.
  2. To make granular; to form into grains.
  3. 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.
noun
  1. A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant.
  2. A tine, prong, or fork.
  3. (founding) A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core.

Information about grain

  • The plural form of grain is: grains.
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Hyphenation of grain

grain

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • grain is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

grain synonyms

Meaning food grain:

cereal

Meaning caryopsis:

caryopsis

Meaning ingrain:

ingrain

Meaning granulate:

granulate

Translation of grain

Anagrams of grain

agrin, argin, Garin, garni, Grani, grani, Ingar, Ingra, nigra

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