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      grain
      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.
      (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.
      A surname.
      A village in Isle of Grain parish, Isle of Grain, Medway borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ8876).
      (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.
      (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.
      verb
      (transitive) 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.
      Roots
      granumgrain- · Latin · grain, seed
      Synonyms for grain
      cerealadjwheatngranulatevbarleyncornnoatsnflournbranntexturensilagen
      Words related to grain
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