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English Idioms :: grain
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grain - See: AGAINST THE GRAIN, TAKE WITH A GRAIN OF SALT. |
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Traditional English :: grain
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grain - n. & v. --n. 1 a fruit or seed of a cereal.
2 a (collect.) wheat or any allied grass used as food, corn. b (collect.) their fruit. c any particular species of corn.
3 a a small hard particle of salt, sand, etc. b a discrete particle or crystal, usu. small, in a rock or metal. c a piece of solid propellant for use in a rocket engine.
4 the smallest unit of weight in the troy system (equivalent to 1/480 of an ounce), and in the avoirdupois system (equivalent to 1/437.5 of an ounce).
5 the smallest possible quantity (not a grain of truth in it).
6 a roughness of surface. b Photog. a granular appearance on a photograph or negative.
7 the texture of skin, wood, stone, etc.; the arrangement and size of constituent particles.
8 a a pattern of lines of fibre in wood or paper. b lamination or planes of cleavage in stone, coal, etc.
9 nature, temper, tendency.
10 a hist. kermes or cochineal, or dye made from either of these. b poet. dye; colour. --v. 1 tr. paint in imitation of the grain of wood or marble.
2 tr. give a granular surface to.
3 tr. dye in grain.
4 tr. & intr. form into grains.
5 tr. remove hair from (hides). against the grain contrary to one's natural inclination or feeling. grain-leather leather dressed with grain-side out. grain-side the side of a hide on which the hair was. grains of Paradise capsules of a W. African plant (Aframomum melegueta), used as a spice and a drug. in grain thorough, genuine, by nature, downright, indelible. grained adj. (also in comb.). grainer n. grainless adj. [ME f. OF f. L granum] |
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Related Words
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kurupt
against
alcohol
auger
brent
cart
brock
bins
whole
cereal
commodity
wood
dash
kit
distiller
elevator
equipment
export
feed
future
tryo
de
sable
importer
millers
steering
wheels
trading
grippin
long
rice
exporter
moths
wholesaler
wholesale
paradise
recipe
distributor
nutri
scale
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Most Often Usage
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kurupt against the grain
against the grain
grain alcohol
grain auger
brent grain cart
brock grain bins
whole grain cereal
cereal grain
grain commodity
wood grain dash kit
wood grain dash
distiller grain
grain elevator
grain elevator equipment
grain export
feed and grain
grain future
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