grain 的 2 个定义
- a small, hard seed, especially the seed of a food plant such as wheat, corn, rye, oats, rice, or millet.
- the gathered seed of food plants, especially of cereal plants.
- such plants collectively.
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- to form into grains; granulate.
- to give a granular appearance to.
- to paint in imitation of the grain of wood, stone, etc.: metal doors grained to resemble oak.
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grain 近义词
seed, piece
texture of fabric
更多grain例句
- This vast country with enormous agricultural resources having to turn to its archenemy for grain.
- A mid-June survey from Meijer’s campaign found him ahead of Afendoulis by 24 points, 41 percent to 17 percent, although we should take internal polls with a grain of salt.
- Scary radiation effects seen in lab animals or cell cultures should be taken with a grain of salt.
- County officials told NBC 7 San Diego to take the increases with a grain of salt.
- This allowed the vehicle to trundle up hills of loose grains.
- Spanish oak, which has an open grain and high levels of tannin, gives you dried fruit, spice, and even chocolate flavors.
- Stalin, now one of the top men in the party, was sent there by Lenin to ensure that grain was getting shipped to Moscow.
- Feast your eyes on the ‘top-grain leather,’ ‘original’ design, gilded pages.
- I am holding in my hand a book, bound in black “genuine top-grain” leather.
- Against the Grain By Michael Specter, The New Yorker Should you go gluten-free?
- And I have not had the first morsel of food prepared from this grain offered me since I reached the shores of Europe.
- Even if poverty were gone, the flail could still beat hard enough upon the grain and chaff of humanity.
- The small grain crops had been burned to a crisp, and disaster hung over the land.
- The delicious soft rains set in early, promising a good grain year.
- It laid its hold upon agriculture, sowing and reaping the grain and transporting it to the ends of the earth.