Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word GRAIN

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Definitions of GRAIN

1. 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.
2. The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
3. Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
4. To feed grain to.
5. To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
6. To yield fruit.
7. A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant.
8. A tine, prong, or fork.
9. (uncountable) The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
10. (uncountable) Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
11. (countable) A single seed of grass food crops.
12. (countable, uncountable) The crops from which grain is harvested.
13. (uncountable) A linear texture of a material or surface.
14. (countable) A single particle of a substance.
15. (countable) Any of various small units of mass originally notionally based on grain's weight, variously standardized at different places and times, including
16. (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.
17. (countable, historical) The carat grain of carat as a measure of gold purity, creating a 96-point scale between 0% and 100% purity.
18. (materials) A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
19. (rocketry) The solid piece of fuel in an individual solid-fuel rocket engine.
20. (in the plural) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum.
21. (botany) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock.
22. (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.
23. (transitive) To make granular; to form into grains.
24. (intransitive) To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
25. (tanning) To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
26. (tanning) To soften leather.
27. (founding) A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core.
28. A village on the in Isle of Grain, Medway, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ8876).
29. A surname.

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Examples of Using GRAIN in a Sentence

• Another is wood, which is easier to split along its grain than across it because of the directional non-uniformity of the grain (the grain is the same in one direction, not all directions).
• When Canadian distillers began adding small amounts of highly-flavourful rye grain to their mashes, people began demanding this new rye-flavoured whisky, referring to it simply as "rye".
• He is usually shown holding or wearing a torc and sometimes holding a bag of coins (or grain) and a cornucopia.
• Although Demeter is mostly known as a grain goddess, she also appeared as a goddess of health, birth, and marriage, and had connections to the Underworld.
• Ethanol (also called ethyl alcohol, grain alcohol, drinking alcohol, or simply alcohol) is an organic compound with the chemical formula.
• Gustav Bloch, his father, was financially unable to attend University and worked as a wholesale grain dealer in Zürich.
• Although grape brandy is most commonly added to produce fortified wines, the additional alcohol may also be neutral spirit that has been made from grapes, grain, sugar beets or sugarcane.
• Graphite occurs naturally in ores that can be classified into one of two categories either amorphous (microcrystalline) or crystalline (flake or lump/chip) which is determined by the ore morphology, crystallinity, and grain size.
• Grain, a solid-fuel rocket's propellant charge; roughly a hollow cylinder, sometimes textured, and possibly very large.
• 5 million guilder accumulated during the reign of his father, John George instituted a grain tax which drove part of the peasantry into dependence on a nobility that was exempt from taxation.
• It also has considerable agricultural potential, with its vast steppe lands accommodating both livestock and grain production.
• Kvass originates from northeastern Europe, where grain production was considered insufficient for beer to become a daily drink.
• The bulk of meat, vegetable, and grain requirements must be imported, contributing to a chronic trade deficit that requires large annual transfers of aid from France.
• Malt is any cereal grain that has been made to germinate by soaking in water and then stopped from germinating further by drying with hot air, a process known as "malting".
• 335 – Athanasius, 20th pope of Alexandria, is banished to Trier on the charge that he prevented a grain fleet from sailing to Constantinople.
• The myth of her abduction, her sojourn in the underworld, and her cyclical return to the surface represents her functions as the embodiment of spring and the personification of vegetation, especially grain crops, which disappear into the earth when sown, sprout from the earth in spring, and are harvested when fully grown.
• Threshing machine (or thresher), a device that first separates the head of a stalk of grain from the straw, and then further separates the kernel from the rest of the head:.
• President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
• Due to a food shortage in Rome, Augustus doubles the grain rations distributed to the people, sends away his slave retinue, and places the senate in recess indefinitely.
• The Vandal fleet raids the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea, and blockades the grain and oil supply to Italy.

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