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单词 grainer
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
grain /greɪn/USA pronunciation   n. 
  1. [countable] a small, hard seed, esp. the seed of a food plant such as wheat, corn, rye, oats, rice, or millet.
  2. the gathered seed of food plants, esp. of cereal plants:[uncountable]shipped tons of grain.
  3. any small, hard particle, as of sand, gold, pepper, or gunpowder:[countable]a few grains of salt.
  4. the smallest possible amount:[countable* usually singular]There was a grain of truth in what she said.
  5. Furniture the arrangement or direction of the fibers in wood, meat, etc., or the pattern resulting from this:[uncountable]the beautiful grain of walnut.
  6. Jewelry[countable] a unit of weight equal to 50 milligrams or ¼ carat, used for pearls and sometimes diamonds.
Idioms
  1. Idioms against one's or the grain, in conflict with one's nature or beliefs:It goes against her grain to spend more money than she has to.


WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
grain  (grān),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. a small, hard seed, esp. the seed of a food plant such as wheat, corn, rye, oats, rice, or millet.
  2. the gathered seed of food plants, esp. of cereal plants.
  3. such plants collectively.
  4. any small, hard particle, as of sand, gold, pepper, or gunpowder.
  5. Weights and Measuresthe smallest unit of weight in most systems, originally determined by the weight of a plump grain of wheat. In the U.S. and British systems, as in avoirdupois, troy, and apothecaries' weights, the grain is identical. In an avoirdupois ounce there are 437.5 grains;
    in the troy and apothecaries' ounces there are 480 grains (one grain equals 0.0648 gram).
  6. the smallest possible amount of anything:a grain of truth.
  7. Furniturethe arrangement or direction of fibers in wood, or the pattern resulting from this.
  8. the direction in which the fibers of a piece of dressed wood, as a board, rise to the surface:You should work with or across the grain, but never against.
  9. Clothingthe side of leather from which the hair has been removed.
  10. Clothinga stamped pattern that imitates the natural grain of leather: used either on leather to simulate a different type of natural leather, or on coated cloth.
  11. Textiles
    • the fibers or yarn in a piece of fabric as differentiated from the fabric itself.
    • the direction of threads in a woven fabric in relation to the selvage.
  12. Geologythe lamination or cleavage of stone, coal, etc.
  13. Metallurgyany of the individual crystalline particles forming a metal.
  14. Jewelrya unit of weight equal to 50 milligrams or ¼ carat, used for pearls and sometimes for diamonds.
  15. the size of constituent particles of any substance;
    texture:sugar of fine grain.
  16. a granular texture or appearance:a stone of coarse grain.
  17. a state of crystallization:boiled to the grain.
  18. temper or natural character:two brothers of similar grain.
  19. Rocketrya unit of solid propellant.
  20. [Obs.]color or hue.
  21. Idioms against the or one's grain, in opposition to one's temper, inclination, or character:Haggling always went against her grain.
  22. Idioms with a grain of salt. See salt 1 (def. 9).

v.t. 
  1. to form into grains;
    granulate.
  2. to give a granular appearance to.
  3. Furniture, to paint in imitation of the grain of wood, stone, etc.:metal doors grained to resemble oak.
  4. to feed grain to (an animal).
  5. Clothing[Tanning.]
    • to remove the hair from (skins).
    • to soften and raise the grain of (leather).
  • Latin grānum seed, grain; see corn1
  • Old French grain
  • Middle English grain, grein 1250–1300
grainer, n. 
grainless, adj. 
    • 6.See corresponding entry in Unabridged bit, speck, trace, jot, iota, whit, tittle.

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