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单词 grain
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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:

grains of wheat/rice
Grain (= the crop from food plants like grasses) is one of the main exports of the American Midwest.
See also
wholegrain

More examples

  • 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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Fruits & seeds & their parts
Cereals

grain noun (SMALL PIECE)

C2 [ C ] a very small piece of a hard substance:

grains of sand

C2 [ S ] a very small amount of a particular quality:

There wasn't a grain of truth in anything she said.
Anyone with a grain of common sense would have known what to do.

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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:

fine/coarse-grain film

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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 grain [ S ]

the natural patterns of lines in the surface of wood or cloth:

to cut something along/against the grain

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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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Idiom(s)

go against the grain
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