单词 | grain |
释义 | grain (once / 177 pages) 1n 2nv 3n 4nv When carpenters sand a piece of wood, they "go with the grain." Grain is the texture on piece of wood, which often forms long patterns that show the direction in which the tree grew. You may have heard someone say "there's a grain of truth to that" when referring to an outrageous story that has a tiny bit of truth to it. A grain can also be a speck or a particle — the tiniest bit of something. Don't confuse this with another definition of grain, the kind you find in your bread — wheat, oats, alfalfa, and so on. Check out all the grains in the ten-grain bread next time you're in the bakery! WORD FAMILYgrain: grained, graining, grains, grainy+/graining: grainings/grainy: grainier, graininess USAGE EXAMPLESLots of vegetables, which are cheap; lots of grains and beans. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) The facility will be able to receive two separate lanes of grain shipments at a pace of 30,000 bushels an hour. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) About 150 slaves worked the land, growing tobacco and grains. Washington Post(Dec 31, 2016) 1 1n a cereal grass wheat is a grain that is grown in Kansas Hyper cereal, cereal grass grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet 2n dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn Syn|Hypo|Hyper caryopsis amaranth seed of amaranth plants used as a native cereal in Central and South America barleycorna grain of barley wheat berrya grain of wheat kernela single whole grain of a cereal ryethe seed of the cereal grass cornthe dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal seed a small hard fruit 3n foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper cereal, food grain corn, edible corn ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food gristgrain intended to be or that has been ground groatsthe hulled and crushed grain of various cereals milletsmall seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica barley, barleycorna grain of barley buckwheatgrain ground into flour wheat, wheat berrygrains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour oatseed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as `oats') ricegrains used as food either unpolished or more often polished Indian rice, wild ricegrains of aquatic grass of North America malta cereal grain (usually barley) that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially in brewing and distilling green corn, sweet corncorn that can be eaten as a vegetable while still young and soft hominyhulled corn with the bran and germ removed popcornsmall kernels of corn exploded by heat pearl barleybarley ground into small round pellets bulghur, bulgur, bulgur wheatparched crushed wheat cracked wheatgrains of wheat that have been crushed into small pieces brown riceunpolished rice retaining the yellowish-brown outer layer polished rice, white ricehaving husk or outer brown layers removed paddyrice in the husk either gathered or still in the field wortunfermented or fermenting malt food product, foodstuff a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food 1n a relatively small granular particle of a substance a grain of sand a grain of sugar Hypo|Hyper granule a tiny grain microsomea tiny granule in the cytoplasm that is where protein synthesis takes place under the direction of mRNA chondrulesmall granule (of e.g. chrysolite) found in some meteoric rocks plastidany of various small particles in the cytoplasm of the cells of plants and some animals containing pigments or starch or oil or protein atom, corpuscle, molecule, mote, particle, speck (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything 2n the smallest possible unit of anything there was a grain of truth in what he said he does not have a grain of sense Hyper littleness, smallness the property of having a relatively small size 3n the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance) sand of a fine grain a stone of coarse grain Syn|Hyper texture composition, constitution, make-up, makeup, physical composition the way in which someone or something is composed 4v form into grains Syn|Hyper granulate form assume a form or shape 5v become granular Syn|Hyper granulate change form, change shape, deform assume a different shape or form 6v thoroughly work in 3His hands were grained with dirt Syn|Hyper ingrain penetrate, perforate pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance 1n 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams Hyper avoirdupois unit any of the units of the avoirdupois system of weights 2n a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat Syn|Hyper metric grain metric weight unit, weight unit a decimal unit of weight based on the gram 3n 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams 4Hyper troy unit any of the unit of the troy system of weights apothecaries' unit, apothecaries' weightany weight unit used in pharmacy; an ounce is equal to 480 grains and a pound is equal to 12 ounces 1n the side of leather from which the hair has been removed Hyper leather an animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning 2n the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric saw the board across the grain Hypo|Hyper wood grain, woodgrain, woodiness texture produced by the fibers in wood graining, woodgraininga texture like that of wood texture the characteristic appearance of a surface having a tactile quality 3v paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood Hyper paint apply paint to; coat with paint |
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