Defenition of the word grain
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Defenition of the word grain
- Edible, starchy seeds of the grass family (Graminae) usable as food by man and his livestock.
- the direction or texture of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric: "saw the board across the grain"
- a small hard particle; "a grain of sand"
- 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams
- 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams
- paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood
- dry seedlike fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
- cereal grain suitable as food for human beings
- used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat
- become granular
- form into grains
- thoroughly work in; "His hands were grained with dirt"
- the direction or texture of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric; "saw the board across the grain"
- foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
- the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance)
- the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric
- the smallest possible unit of anything
- a relatively small granular particle of a substance
- a cereal grass
- dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
- 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
- thoroughly work in
Synonyms for the word grain
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- caryopsis
- cereal
- food grain
- granulate
- ingrain
- metric grain
Meronymys for the word grain
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- decigram
- dg
- dram
- mg
- milligram
- pennyweight
- scruple
Hyponyms for the word grain
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- amaranth
- barley
- barleycorn
- buckwheat
- corn
- edible corn
- graining
- granule
- grist
- groats
- Indian rice
- kernel
- malt
- millet
- oat
- rice
- rye
- wheat
- wheat berry
- wild rice
- wood grain
- woodgrain
- woodgraining
- woodiness
Hypernyms for the word grain
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- apothecaries' unit
- apothecaries' weight
- atom
- avoirdupois unit
- cereal
- cereal grass
- change form
- change shape
- composition
- constitution
- corpuscle
- deform
- food product
- foodstuff
- form
- leather
- littleness
- make-up
- makeup
- metric weight unit
- molecule
- mote
- paint
- particle
- penetrate
- perforate
- physical composition
- seed
- shape
- smallness
- speck
- texture
- troy unit
- weight unit
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