grain
谷物,粮食,谷粒,纹理
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Definitions
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- : 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.
- : any small, hard particle, as of sand, gold, pepper, or gunpowder.
- : the smallest unit of weight in most systems, originally determined by the weight of a plump grain of wheat. In the U.S. and British systems, as in avoirdupois, troy, and apothecaries' weights, the grain is identical. In an avoirdupois ounce there are 437.5 grains; in the troy and apothecaries' ounces there are 480 grains.
- : the smallest possible amount of anything: a grain of truth.
- : the arrangement or direction of fibers in wood, or the pattern resulting from this.
- : the direction in which the fibers of a piece of dressed wood, as a board, rise to the surface: You should work with or across the grain, but never against.
- : the side of leather from which the hair has been removed.
- : a stamped pattern that imitates the natural grain of leather: used either on leather to simulate a different type of natural leather, or on coated cloth.
- : Textiles. the fibers or yarn in a piece of fabric as differentiated from the fabric itself.the direction of threads in a woven fabric in relation to the selvage.
- : the lamination or cleavage of stone, coal, etc.
- : Metallurgy. any of the individual crystalline particles forming a metal.
- : Jewelry. a unit of weight equal to 50 milligrams or ¼ carat, used for pearls and sometimes for diamonds.
- : the size of constituent particles of any substance; texture: sugar of fine grain.
- : a granular texture or appearance: a stone of coarse grain.
- : a state of crystallization: boiled to the grain.
- : temper or natural character: two brothers of similar grain.
- : Rocketry. a unit of solid propellant.
- : Obsolete. color or hue.
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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.
- : to feed grain to.
- : Tanning. to remove the hair from.to soften and raise the grain of.
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Examples
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.