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coarse-grained

/kawrs-greynd, kohrs-/US // ˈkɔrsˈgreɪnd, ˈkoʊrs- //

粗放型,粗粒的,粗放型的,粗粒度的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having a coarse texture or grain.
    • : indelicate; crude; vulgar; gross: a coarse-grained person with vulgar manners.

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Examples

  • Edith Wharton, of course, writes in such a startlingly sharp and close-grained way about how people live.

  • At best, the artist gives us a fine-grained picture of her subjects, a picture that allows us to see them aright.

  • Consider, for example, that all of the questions about the economy were very fine-grained.

  • Close-grained grey and yellowish-grey granite, with brown mica.

  • Fine-grained quartzose sandstone, of a purplish hue, resembling a rock on the banks of the Severn, near Bridgenorth.

  • Very compact and fine-grained reddish granular quartz, with a glistening lustre, and flat conchoidal fracture.

  • The wood of apple trees is hard, close-grained and often richly colored, and is suitable for turning or cabinet work.

  • One of the latter struck my knee with force enough to wound the bone without penetrating the grained-leather boot-leg.