grain

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

Noun

1. The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
2. Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
3. A single seed of grass food crops.
4. The crops from which grain is harvested.
5. A linear texture of a material or surface.
6. A single particle of a substance.
7. Any of various small units of mass originally notionally based on grain's weight, variously standardized at different places and times, including
8. Any of various small units of mass originally notionally based on grain's weight, variously standardized at different places and times, including
9. Any of various small units of mass originally notionally based on grain's weight, variously standardized at different places and times, including
10. Any of various small units of length originally notionally based on a grain's width, variously standardized at different places and times.
11. The carat grain of ¹⁄₄ carat as a measure of gold purity, creating a 96-point scale between 0% and 100% purity.
12. A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
13. The solid piece of fuel in an individual solid-fuel rocket engine.
14. 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.
15. The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
16. The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum.
17. A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock.
18. Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
19. 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.

Verb

1. To feed grain to.
2. To make granular; to form into grains.
3. To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
4. To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
5. To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
6. To soften leather.
7. To yield fruit.

Συνώνυμα

seed

corn

🌽

cereal

kernel

texture

granule

particle

drop

speck

nut

pip

granulate

bit

barley

cereals

weave

crumb

wheat

feel

pellet

food

🍽️

fragment

crop

food grain

caryopsis

jot

maize

fruit

atom

provisions

structure

metric grain

gr

pit

bead

single one

iota

tincture

rice

🍚

ingrain

semen

sperm

scintilla

produce

bean

form

crops

millet

modicum

morsel

gr.

nature

oat

occasion

ounce

ovule

ovum

paddy

pane of glass

particulate

pebble

piece

pinch

quality

reason

rye

schnapps

seeds

shot

shred

sinew

skin

slice

small grain

smash

smattering

smidgen

snip

soupcon

spark

sphere

spicule

spore

spot

sprinkling

squall

stone

🪨

substance

temper

tendency

tissue

tittle

touch

trace

trifle

vein

web

wherefore

whit

why

yield

zone

bear fruit

cereal grass

zona

curly grain

wood grain

surface texture

crystal grain

nutlet

seed-corn

organisation

anything small

0.065 gramme

complex body part

seedcorn

single seed

form grains

graminaceous plant

physical structure

staple foods

edible seed plants

crystalline grain

cereal crop

extra-hard

film grain

ace

cereal seed

achene

atomic

ball

bear

🐻

blame

breakfast cereal

build

bulb

💡

bullet

bump

carat

cause

complexion

composition

conformation

constitution

core

coriander

crystal

crystallization

dab

darn

dash

💨

disposition

dot

dram

etc.

eye

👁️

fabric

fault

flake

flesh

🥩

fraction

fur

g

g

granulation

grist

hailstone

hair

harvest

hump

inclination

kermes

knurl

lean

lump

material

meticulous

muscle

💪

nap

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/ɡɹeɪn/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

Κληρονομήθηκε από Μέσα Αγγλικά: greyn

Κληρονομήθηκε από Μέσα Αγγλικά: grayn

Συγγενές με Αγγλικά: grove

In summary

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.