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grain

English

  1. 🔊 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”
  2. 🔊 the smallest possible unit of anything
    “there was a grain of truth in what he said”
  3. 🔊 foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
  4. 🔊 a relatively small granular particle of a substance
    “a grain of sand”
  5. 🔊 a cereal grass
    “wheat is a grain that is grown in Kansas”
  6. 🔊 dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
  7. 🔊 1/7000 pound
  8. 🔊 1/60 dram
  9. 🔊 a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat
  10. 🔊 the side of leather from which the hair has been removed
  11. 🔊 the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance)
    “breadfruit has the same texture as bread”
  12. 🔊 paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood
  13. 🔊 become granular
  14. 🔊 form into grains
  15. 🔊 thoroughly work in
    “His hands were grained with dirt”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 cebo grain
  2. 🔊 granear to grain
  3. 🔊 grano grain, seed, kernel, bean (a single seed of certain crops)

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