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grain
English
- 🔊 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”
- 🔊 the smallest possible unit of anything“there was a grain of truth in what he said”
- 🔊 foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
- 🔊 a relatively small granular particle of a substance“a grain of sand”
- 🔊 a cereal grass“wheat is a grain that is grown in Kansas”
- 🔊 dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
- 🔊 1/7000 pound
- 🔊 1/60 dram
- 🔊 a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat
- 🔊 the side of leather from which the hair has been removed
- 🔊 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”
- 🔊 paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood
- 🔊 become granular
- 🔊 form into grains
- 🔊 thoroughly work in“His hands were grained with dirt”
Spanish
- 🔊 cebo grain
- 🔊 granear to grain
- 🔊 grano grain, seed, kernel, bean (a single seed of certain crops)