grainnoun
uk/ɡreɪn/us/ɡreɪn/grain noun (SEED)
C2 [ C or U ] a seed or seeds from a plant, especially a plant like a grass such as rice or wheat:
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- European countries are quite aggressive subsidizers of grain exports.
- A few chickens were scratching around in the yard for grain.
- The grain is still milled locally.
- A tornado destroyed grain crops across much of the Midwest.
- A surplus of corn has helped depress the grain market.
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Farming - general words
- agrarian
- agriculture
- arable
- corn earworm
- cultivate
- farming
- food security
- harrow
- homestead
- produce
- PYO
- rabi
- reap
- rick
- seed
- slash-and-burn
- subsistence farming
- the Agrarian Revolution
- thrash
- till
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grain noun (SMALL PIECE)
C2 [ C ] a very small piece of a hard substance:
C2 [ S ] a very small amount of a particular quality:
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Words meaning small pieces and amounts
- by a nose idiom
- chip
- clipping
- crumb
- dollop
- droplet
- flake
- germ
- jot
- nose
- pat
- patch
- pennyworth
- pinprick
- ray
- scattering
- scintilla
- shadow
- shard
- shred
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grain noun (PHOTOGRAPH)
[ C or U ] the pattern of extremely small spots of black and white or colour, that form a photographic or film image, or one of these small spots:
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Photography
- airbrush
- aperture
- camera
- camera obscura
- camera-shy
- capture
- high-resolution
- hologram
- holography
- kinetoscope
- lo-res
- negative
- say cheese idiom
- selfie
- sharp
- shoot
- shutter
- slide
- SLR camera
- snapshot
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grain noun (WOOD/CLOTH)
the natural patterns of lines in the surface of wood or cloth:
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Patterns and shapes
- amorphous
- arabesque
- argyle
- bar
- cake
- contour
- geometry
- marbled
- misshapen
- motif
- mottled
- paisley
- silhouette
- spotted
- streak
- stripe
- striped
- stripy
- styloid
- take shape idiom
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grain noun (WEIGHT)
[ C ] old-fashioned a unit of mass, equal to 0.0648 grams
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Measurements of weight & mass
- atomic mass unit
- BMI
- body mass index
- centigram
- ct
- cwt
- dead weight
- grammage
- gramme
- kilo
- kt
- mg
- milligram
- ounce
- oz
- stone
- ton
- tonnage
- tonne
- weigh
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