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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024grain /greɪn/USA pronunciation n. - [countable] a small, hard seed, esp. the seed of a food plant such as wheat, corn, rye, oats, rice, or millet.
- the gathered seed of food plants, esp. of cereal plants:[uncountable]shipped tons of grain.
- any small, hard particle, as of sand, gold, pepper, or gunpowder:[countable]a few grains of salt.
- the smallest possible amount:[countable* usually singular]There was a grain of truth in what she said.
- Furniture the arrangement or direction of the fibers in wood, meat, etc., or the pattern resulting from this:[uncountable]the beautiful grain of walnut.
- Jewelry[countable] a unit of weight equal to 50 milligrams or ¼ carat, used for pearls and sometimes diamonds.
Idioms- 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 © 2024grain (grān),USA pronunciation n. - a small, hard seed, esp. the seed of a food plant such as wheat, corn, rye, oats, rice, or millet.
- the gathered seed of food plants, esp. of cereal plants.
- such plants collectively.
- any small, hard particle, as of sand, gold, pepper, or gunpowder.
- 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). - the smallest possible amount of anything:a grain of truth.
- Furniturethe arrangement or direction of fibers in wood, or the pattern resulting from this.
- 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.
- Clothingthe side of leather from which the hair has been removed.
- 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.
- 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.
- Geologythe lamination or cleavage of stone, coal, etc.
- Metallurgyany of the individual crystalline particles forming a metal.
- Jewelrya unit of weight equal to 50 milligrams or ¼ carat, used for pearls and sometimes for diamonds.
- the size of constituent particles of any substance;
texture:sugar of fine grain. - a granular texture or appearance:a stone of coarse grain.
- a state of crystallization:boiled to the grain.
- temper or natural character:two brothers of similar grain.
- Rocketrya unit of solid propellant.
- [Obs.]color or hue.
- Idioms against the or one's grain, in opposition to one's temper, inclination, or character:Haggling always went against her grain.
- Idioms with a grain of salt. See salt 1 (def. 9).
v.t. - to form into grains;
granulate. - to give a granular appearance to.
- Furniture, to paint in imitation of the grain of wood, stone, etc.:metal doors grained to resemble oak.
- to feed grain to (an animal).
- 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
grain′er, n. grain′less, adj. - 6.See corresponding entry in Unabridged bit, speck, trace, jot, iota, whit, tittle.
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