grain

Meaning

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.

Concepts

grain

seed

corn

cereal

kernel

texture

granule

particle

drop

speck

nut

pip

granulate

bit

barley

cereals

crumb

weave

wheat

pellet

fragment

food

crop

feel

pit

bead

maize

atom

food grain

caryopsis

metric grain

jot

gr

fruit

structure

provisions

semen

sperm

rice

ingrain

gr.

millet

iota

scintilla

morsel

modicum

single one

form

bean

crops

produce

tincture

squall

curly grain

meticulous

skin

surface texture

stone

0.065 gramme

coriander

carat

dram

bulb

ovum

spore

ace

ounce

single seed

seed-corn

seedcorn

pebble

form grains

fraction

edible seed plants

rye

oat

ovule

grist

trace

spark

dot

whit

tittle

trifle

touch

pinch

dash

quality

nature

temper

inclination

tendency

g

composition

anything small

complexion

flesh

lean

material

muscle

substance

core

ball

bump

hump

sphere

spicule

tissue

web

crystal grain

crystalline grain

wood grain

shot

small grain

granulation

bullet

extra-hard

bear fruit

bear

lump

etc.

schnapps

atomic

dab

shred

smattering

snip

spot

sprinkling

particulate

smidgen

darn

soupcon

crystal

crystallization

achene

nutlet

hailstone

build

complex body part

conformation

constitution

fabric

organisation

physical structure

zona

zone

blame

cause

fault

occasion

reason

wherefore

why

smash

disposition

piece

slice

paddy

yield

sinew

vein

staple foods

eye

flake

pane of glass

cereal crop

cereal seed

fur

hair

nap

knurl

kermes

film grain

seeds

harvest

breakfast cereal

graminaceous plant

cereal grass

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡɹeɪn/

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.