| 单词 | grain |
| 释义 | grain n. & v. --n 1. a fruit or seed of a cereal. 2. a (collect.) wheat or any allied grass used as food, corn. b (collect.) their fruit. c any particular species of corn. 3. a a small hard particle of salt, sand, etc. b a discrete particle or crystal, usu. small, in a rock or metal. c a piece of solid propellant for use in a rocket engine. 4. the smallest unit of weight in the troy system (equivalent to 1/480 of an ounce), and in the avoirdupois system (equivalent to 1/437.5 of an ounce). 5. the smallest possible quantity (not a grain of truth in it). 6. a roughness of surface. b Photog. a granular appearance on a photograph or negative. 7. the texture of skin, wood, stone, etc.; the arrangement and size of constituent particles. 8. a a pattern of lines of fibre in wood or paper. b lamination or planes of cleavage in stone, coal, etc. 9. nature, temper, tendency. 10. a hist. kermes or cochineal, or dye made from either of these. b poet. dye; colour. --v 1. tr. paint in imitation of the grain of wood or marble. 2. tr. give a granular surface to. 3. tr. dye in grain. 4. tr. & intr. form into grains. 5. tr. remove hair from (hides). Phrases and idioms against the grain contrary to one's natural inclination or feeling. grain-leather leather dressed with grain-side out. grain-side the side of a hide on which the hair was. grains of Paradise capsules of a W. African plant (Aframomum melegueta), used as a spice and a drug. in grain thorough, genuine, by nature, downright, indelible. Derivatives grained adj. (also in comb.). grainer n. grainless adj. Etymology: ME f. OF f. L granum |
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