grain
IPA: grˈeɪn
noun
- (uncountable) The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
- (uncountable) Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
- (countable) A single seed of grass food crops.
- (countable, uncountable) The crops from which grain is harvested.
- (uncountable) A linear texture of a material or surface.
- (countable) A single particle of a substance.
- (countable) Any of various small units of mass originally notionally based on grain's weight, variously standardized at different places and times, including
- The English grain of ¹⁄₅₇₆₀ troy pound or ¹⁄₇₀₀₀ pound avoirdupois, now exactly 64.79891 mg.
- The metric, carat, or pearl grain of ¹⁄₄ carat used for measuring precious stones and pearls, now exactly 50 mg.
- (historical) The French grain of ¹⁄₉₂₁₆ livre, equivalent to 53.11 mg at metricization and equal to exactly 54.25 mg from 1812–1839 as part of the mesures usuelles.
- (countable, chiefly historical) Any of various small units of length originally notionally based on a grain's width, variously standardized at different places and times.
- (countable, historical) The carat grain of ¹⁄₄ carat as a measure of gold purity, creating a 96-point scale between 0% and 100% purity.
- (materials) A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
- (astronautics) The solid piece of fuel in an individual solid-fuel rocket engine.
- A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple.
- The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
- (in the plural) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum.
- (botany) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock.
- Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
- (photography, videography) Visual texture in processed photographic film due to the presence of small particles of a metallic silver, or dye clouds, developed from silver halide that have received enough photons.
- A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant; an offshoot.
- A tine, prong, or fork.
- One of the branches of a valley or river.
- An iron fish spear or harpoon, with a number of points half-barbed inwardly.
- A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
- An arm of a cross.
- (founding) A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core.
- (dialectal) A branch or arm of a stream, inlet, or sea.
- (dialectal) A fork in a river valley or ravine.
- (dialectal) The branch of a family; clan.
- (dialectal, anatomy) The groin; crotch.
- (dialectal, anatomy) The fangs of a tooth.
- A village on the Isle of Grain, Medway borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ8876).
- A surname.
verb
- To feed grain to.
- (transitive) To make granular; to form into grains.
- (intransitive) 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.
- (tanning) To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
- (tanning) To soften leather.
- To yield fruit.
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Examples of "grain" in Sentences
- The chicken was eating the grain.
- That is the three layers of the grain.
- It is a byproduct of the fermentation of grain.
- The best grain to parch is grain that is slightly under ripe.
- Seed corn and soybean are among the grains produced by the city.
- The Japanese confiscated the grain and rice and the population starved.
- The rice is first soaked in water until the grains are fully saturated.
- The difference comes solely from the grain size of the crystalline grains.
- Chaff is the scales that protect the grain, while bran is part of the grain.
- Here farmers and grain merchants bartered for, and fixed the price of grain.
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