grain
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English greyn, grayn, grein, from Old French grain, grein, from Latin grānum (“seed”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain”). Doublet of corn, gram, granum, and grao.
Inflected forms:
form: grains
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: grains
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: graining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: grained
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: grained
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: We stored a thousand tons of grain for the winter.
gloss: Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A single seed of grass food crops.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: a grain of wheat
grains of oat
gloss: The crops from which grain is harvested.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The fields were planted with grain.
A grain, which in England is generally given to horſes, but which in Scotland ſupports the people.
gloss: A linear texture of a material or surface.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Cut along the grain of the wood.
He doesn't like to shave against the grain.
gloss: A single particle of a substance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: a grain of sand
a grain of salt
gloss: Any of various small units of mass originally notionally based on grain's weight, variously standardized at different places and times, including
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of various small units of mass originally notionally based on grain's weight, variously standardized at different places and times, including
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of various small units of mass originally notionally based on grain's weight, variously standardized at different places and times, including
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
gloss: Any of various small units of length originally notionally based on a grain's width, variously standardized at different places and times.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
gloss: The carat grain of ¹⁄₄ carat as a measure of gold purity, creating a 96-point scale between 0% and 100% purity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
gloss: A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The solid piece of fuel in an individual solid-fuel rocket engine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: all in a robe of darkest grain
[…] doing as the dyers do, who, having first dipped their silks in colours of less value, then give them the last tincture of crimson in grain.
gloss: The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The grain of the leather is also sometimes damaged by the filling , by the taking off the hair , and by the river work.
gloss: The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
uncountable
gloss: A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: brothers […] not united in grain
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To feed grain to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He said that no man loved his horses, unless his own hands grained them. Every Christmas he gave them brimming measures.
gloss: To make granular; to form into grains.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
pos: verb
gloss: To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
pos: verb
gloss: To soften leather.
pos: verb
gloss: To yield fruit.
pos: verb
Synonyms: grain
Related words: coarse-grained
fine-grained
garnet
grain alcohol
grain car
grain neutral spirit
grains of paradise
grain spirit
granary
granular
granularity
granulate
granulation
grenade
grosgrain
guinea grains
neutral grain spirit
cereal
scythe
combine
field
mill
Derived words: against the grain
ancient grain
argyrophilic grain disease
brewers' spent grains
distillers' grains
end grain
feedgrain
feed grain
felt grain
foodgrain
go against the grain
grainage
grain beetle
grain boundary
grain corn
grain elevator
grain engulfment
grain entrapment
grainfall
grainfield
grainflow
grainish
grain itch
grainland
grainless
grainlike
grainline
grain moon
grain of paradise
grain of salt
grain of truth
grain physa
grain popping
grain refiner
grain size
grains of paradise
grainstone
grain weevil
grain whiskey
grain whisky
grainy
grain yard
grainygrip grain
grip grain
guinea grains
intergrain
intragrain
kefir grain
long-grain
micrograin
multigrain
nanograin
nongrain
overgrain
pollen grain
pseudograin
puffed grain
seed grain
short-grain
silver grain
silver-grain
snow grains
soft-grain
subgrain
supergrain
there's a grain of truth in every joke
troy grain
whole grain
whole-grain
wholegrain
winnow grain from chaff
with a grain of salt
woodgrain
grain up
Translations:
lang: Akkadian
word: 𒊺
roman: še'um
lang: Albanian
word: drithë
lang: Southern Altai
word: аш
roman: aš
lang: Arabic
word: حَبَة
roman: ḥaba
lang: Armenian
word: հացահատիկ
roman: hacʻahatik
lang: Aromanian
word: grãn
lang: Azerbaijani
word: dən
lang: Bashkir
word: ярма
roman: yarma
lang: Basque
word: garau
lang: Basque
word: bihi
lang: Basque
word: ale
lang: Belarusian
word: зерне́
roman: zjernjé
lang: Belarusian
word: збо́жжа
roman: zbóžža
lang: Belarusian
word: жы́та
roman: žýta
lang: Bengali
word: শস্য
roman: śosśo
lang: Bulgarian
word: зърно́
roman: zǎrnó
lang: Burmese
word: အဆန်
roman: a.hcan
lang: Catalan
word: gra
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 糧食 /粮食
roman: liángshí
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 穀物 /谷物
roman: gǔwù
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 穀類 /谷类
roman: gǔlèi
lang: Czech
word: zrno
lang: Czech
word: zrní
lang: Dalmatian
word: grun
lang: Danish
word: korn
lang: Dutch
word: koren
lang: Dutch
word: graan
lang: Egyptian
word: sSr-Z1-U9:Z2ss
roman: sšr
lang: Esperanto
word: greno
lang: Estonian
word: teravili
lang: Estonian
word: tera
lang: Finnish
word: vilja
lang: Finnish
word: jyvät
lang: French
word: grain
lang: Galician
word: grao
lang: Galician
word: gran
lang: Georgian
word: მარცვალი
roman: marcvali
lang: German
word: Korn
lang: German
word: Getreide
lang: Gothic
word: 𐌺𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽
roman: kaurn
lang: Greek
word: σιτηρά
roman: sitirá
lang: Greek
word: δημητριακά
roman: dimitriaká
lang: Ancient Greek
word: σῖτος
roman: sîtos
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἀκτή
roman: aktḗ
lang: Haitian Creole
word: grenn
lang: Hebrew
word: בָּר
roman: bar
lang: Hindi
word: अनाज
roman: anāj
lang: Hindi
word: अन्न
roman: ann
lang: Hindi
word: धान्य
roman: dhānya
lang: Hungarian
word: gabona
lang: Icelandic
word: korn
lang: Irish
word: grán
lang: Old Irish
word: grán
lang: Italian
word: seme
lang: Japanese
word: 穀物
roman: kokumotsu
lang: Japanese
word: 穀類
roman: kokurui
lang: Javanese
word: wiji
lang: Kazakh
word: дән
roman: dän
lang: Kazakh
word: астық
roman: astyq
lang: Khmer
word: គ្រាប់
roman: krŏəp
lang: Korean
word: 곡물
roman: gongmul
lang: Kumyk
word: ашлыкъ
roman: aşlıq
lang: Kumyk
word: бюртюк
roman: bürtük
lang: Kumyk
word: урлукъ
roman: urluq
lang: Kyrgyz
word: дан
roman: dan
lang: Ladin
word: blava
lang: Lao
word: ເມັດ
roman: met
lang: Latgalian
word: gryudi
lang: Latgalian
word: maize
lang: Latin
word: frūmentum
lang: Latvian
word: labība
lang: Latvian
word: graudi
lang: Lingala
word: mbuma
lang: Lithuanian
word: grūdai
lang: Lithuanian
word: javai
lang: Low German
word: Koorn
lang: Macedonian
word: жи́то
roman: žíto
lang: Malay
word: biji
lang: Marathi
word: धान्य
roman: dhānya
lang: Megleno-Romanian
word: grǫn
lang: Mongolian
word: үр
roman: ür
lang: Mongolian
word: ширхэг
roman: širxeg
lang: Mongolian
word: будаа
roman: budaa
lang: Khiamniungan Naga
word: vêi
lang: Ngombe (Congo)
word: mbuma
lang: Norwegian
word: korn
lang: Occitan
word: gran
lang: Old Church Slavonic
word: жито
roman: žito
lang: Old Church Slavonic
word: зрьно
roman: zrĭno
lang: Old English
word: corn
lang: Oromo
word: mindhaan
lang: Ossetian
word: нӕмыг
roman: næmyg
lang: Persian
word: غلات
roman: ġallât
lang: Persian
word: خرمن
roman: xarman
lang: Polabian
word: zaitü
lang: Polish
word: ziarno
lang: Polish
word: zboże
lang: Portuguese
word: grão
lang: Romanian
word: grăunte
lang: Russian
word: зерно́
roman: zernó
lang: Russian
word: жи́то
roman: žíto
lang: Sanskrit
word: धान्य
roman: dhānya
lang: Sanskrit
word: कण
roman: kaṇa
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: gràn
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: зр̏но
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: жи̏то
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: zȑno
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: žȉto
lang: Sidamo
word: gide
lang: Slovak
word: zrno
lang: Slovene
word: zrno
lang: Slovene
word: žito
lang: Spanish
word: grano
lang: Swahili
word: nafaka
lang: Swedish
word: säd
lang: Swedish
word: spannmål
lang: Tagalog
word: butil
lang: Tagalog
word: grano
lang: Tajik
word: дон
roman: don
lang: Tajik
word: ғалла
roman: ġalla
lang: Tatar
word: бөртек
roman: börtek
lang: Tatar
word: ашлык
roman: aşlıq
lang: Thai
word: ธัญ
roman: tan
lang: Thai
word: เมล็ด
roman: má-lét
lang: Thai
word: เม็ด
roman: mét
lang: Tigrinya
word: እኽሊ
roman: ʾəxli
lang: Tocharian B
word: tāno
lang: Tocharian B
word: ysāre
lang: Turkish
word: tahıl
lang: Turkmen
word: digir
lang: Turkmen
word: däne
lang: Turkmen
word: galla
lang: Ukrainian
word: зерно́
roman: zernó
lang: Ukrainian
word: збі́жжя
roman: zbížžja
lang: Ukrainian
word: жи́то
roman: žýto
lang: Urdu
word: اناج
roman: anāj
lang: Uzbek
word: don
lang: Uzbek
word: gʻalla
lang: Vietnamese
word: ngũ cốc
lang: Welsh
word: grawn
lang: Welsh
word: ŷd
lang: Zazaki
word: xerman
lang: Zazaki
word: ğele (diq)
lang: Zulu
word: izinhlamvu
lang: Bulgarian
word: гран
roman: gran
lang: Catalan
word: gra
lang: Czech
word: grán
lang: Dutch
word: grein
lang: Esperanto
word: grano
lang: Finnish
word: graani
lang: Galician
word: gran
lang: Galician
word: grao
lang: German
word: Gran
lang: German
word: Grän
lang: Hungarian
word: szemer
lang: Polish
word: gran
lang: Portuguese
word: grão
lang: Russian
word: гран
roman: gran
lang: Spanish
word: grano
lang: Swahili
word: kilo
lang: Swedish
word: gran
lang: Thai
word: เกรน
roman: green