grain

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/ɡɹeɪn/

noun 10verb 5name 2

Collocations

(noun.) seeds of wheat, etc.

VERB + GRAIN

grow, produce | sow | store

GRAIN + NOUN

harvest, production, yield | exports, imports

(noun.) natural pattern of lines in wood

ADJ

fine, smooth | coarse, rough

natural

The baker appreciated the natural grain visible in the freshly baked loaf of bread.

PREP

across/against the ~, along/with the ~

The carpenter sanded the wooden table against the grain to create a rough texture.

Definitions

noun

The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.

We stored a thousand tons of grain for the winter.

Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.

A single seed of grass food crops.

a grain of wheat

grains of oat

The crops from which grain is harvested.

The fields were planted with grain.

A grain, which in England is generally given to horſes, but which in Scotland ſupports the people.

A linear texture of a material or surface.

Cut along the grain of the wood.

He doesn't like to shave against the grain.

verb

To feed grain to.

He said that no man loved his horses, unless his own hands grained them. Every Christmas he gave them brimming measures.

To make granular; to form into grains.

To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.

To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.

To remove the hair or fat from a skin.

noun

A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant; an offshoot.

A tine, prong, or fork.

Served 5 lb of fish per man which was caught by striking with grains

A tine, prong, or fork.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the physical composition of something (especially with respe

texture

noun — foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses

cereal

noun — dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. whe

caryopsis

verb — become granular

granulate

verb — form into grains

granulate

verb — thoroughly work in

ingrain

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

against the grain

Preventing a smooth, level surface from being formed by raising the nap of the wood or causing larger splinters to form ahead of the cutting tool below the cutting surface.

go against the grain

To defy convention or norms; to do something in a manner that is unusual or out of the ordinary.

His method certainly goes against the grain, but it is unquestionably effective.

with a grain of salt

With a little common sense and skepticism.

I take anything I read on the Internet with a grain of salt.

grain of truth

Synonym of kernel of truth.

There's not a grain of truth in what you just told me.

Example Bank

We stored a thousand tons of grain for the winter.

Wiktionary

a grain of wheat

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grains of oat

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He said that no man loved his horses, unless his own hands grained them. Every Christmas he gave them brimming measures.

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Served 5 lb of fish per man which was caught by striking with grains

Wiktionary

Rye was called the grain of poverty.

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