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- DictionaryGrain/ɡrān/
noun
- 1. wheat or any other cultivated cereal crop used as food.
- 2. a single fruit or seed of a cereal: "a few grains of corn"
verb
- 1. give a rough surface or texture to: "her fingers were grained with chalk dust"
- 2. paint (something, especially furniture or interior surfaces) in imitation of the grain of wood or marble: "what is the use of having natural wood when you can grain it like that?"
GRAIN definition: 1. a seed or seeds from types of grass that are eaten as food: 2. a very small piece of something…. Learn more.
4 days ago · grain ( countable and uncountable, plural grains) ( uncountable) The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley . We stored a thousand tons of grain for the winter. ( uncountable) Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa. ( countable) A single seed of grass food crops.
noun. a small, hard seed, especially the seed of a food plant such as wheat, corn, rye, oats, rice, or millet. the gathered seed of food plants, especially of cereal plants. such plants collectively. any small, hard particle, as of sand, gold, pepper, or gunpowder.
: the seeds or fruits of various food plants including the cereal grasses and in commercial and statutory usage other plants (such as the soybean) c. : plants producing grain. 2. a (1) : a small hard particle or crystal. (2) : any of the particles produced in a photographic material by its development.
grain / ɡreɪn / n. the small hard seedlike fruit of a grass, esp a cereal plant; a mass of such fruits, esp when gathered for food; the plants, collectively, from which such fruits are harvested; a small hard particle: a grain of sand; the general direction or arrangement of the fibrous elements in paper or wood: to saw across the grain
grain meaning, definition, what is grain: the seeds of crops such as corn, wheat, ...: Learn more.
Meaning of grain in Essential American English Dictionary. grain. noun. us / ɡreɪn/ Add to word list Add to word list. a seed or seeds from types of grass that are eaten as food: grains of wheat / rice. a very small piece of something: a grain of sand / sugar.
