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grain

  [greyn]
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–noun
1. a small, hard seed, esp. the seed of a food plant such as wheat, corn, rye, oats, rice, or millet.
2. the gathered seed of food plants, esp. of cereal plants.
3. such plants collectively.
4. any small, hard particle, as of sand, gold, pepper, or gunpowder.
5. 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 (one grain equals 0.0648 gram).
6. the smallest possible amount of anything: a grain of truth.
7. the arrangement or direction of fibers in wood, or the pattern resulting from this.
8. 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.
9. the side of leather from which the hair has been removed.
10. 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.
11. Textiles.
a. the fibers or yarn in a piece of fabric as differentiated from the fabric itself.
b. the direction of threads in a woven fabric in relation to the selvage.
12. the lamination or cleavage of stone, coal, etc.
13. Metallurgy. any of the individual crystalline particles forming a metal.
14. Jewelry. a unit of weight equal to 50 milligrams or 1/4 carat, used for pearls and sometimes for diamonds.
15. the size of constituent particles of any substance; texture: sugar of fine grain.
16. a granular texture or appearance: a stone of coarse grain.
17. a state of crystallization: boiled to the grain.
18. temper or natural character: two brothers of similar grain.
19. Rocketry. a unit of solid propellant.
20. Obsolete. color or hue.
–verb (used with object)
21. to form into grains; granulate.
22. to give a granular appearance to.
23. to paint in imitation of the grain of wood, stone, etc.: metal doors grained to resemble oak.
24. to feed grain to (an animal).
25. Tanning.
a. to remove the hair from (skins).
b. to soften and raise the grain of (leather).
—Idioms
26. against the or one's grain, in opposition to one's temper, inclination, or character: Haggling always went against her grain.
27. with a grain of salt. salt 1 (def. 23).
Origin:
1250–1300; ME grain, grein < OF grain < L grānum seed, grain; see corn 1

Related forms:
grainer, noun
grainless, adjective

Synonyms:
6. bit, speck, trace, jot, iota, whit, tittle.
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Main Entry:  multigrain
Part of Speech:  adj
Definition:  containing two or more types of grain, esp. for providing fiber and health benefits; also written multi-grain
Example:  We are testing different brands of multigrain bread.
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Word Origin & History

grain 
c.1202, from O.Fr. grein, from L. granum "seed" (see corn). As collective sing. meaning "seed of wheat and allied grasses used as food," it is attested from c.1315. Extended in M.E. to other objects (e.g. salt, sand). Used of wood (1565), from the arrangement of fibers, which resemble seeds. Hence, against the grain (1650), a metaphor from carpentry: cutting across the fibers of the wood is more difficult than cutting along them.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: grain
Pronunciation: 'grAn
Function: noun
1 a : a seed or fruit of a cereal grass b : the seeds or fruits of variousfood plants including the cereal grasses and in commercial and statutory usage other plants (as the soybean) c : plants producing grain
2 : a small hard particleor crystal (as of sand or salt)
3 : a unit of avoirdupois, Troy, and apothecaries' weight equal to 0.0648 gram or 0.002286 avoirdupois ounce or 0.002083 Troy ounce—abbreviation gr
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Medical Dictionary

grain (grān)
n.

  1. A small, dry, one-seeded fruit of a cereal grass, having the fruit and the seed walls united.

  2. The fruits of cereal grasses especially after having been harvested, considered as a group.

  3. A relatively small discrete particulate or crystalline mass.


  4. Abbr. gr. A unit of weight in the U.S. Customary System, an avoirdupois unit equal to 0.002286 ounce (0.065 gram).

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Science Dictionary
grain   (grān)  Pronunciation Key 

  1. See caryopsis.

  2. A small particle of something, such as salt, pollen, or sand.

  3. A unit of weight in the US Customary System, equal to 2/1000 of an ounce (0.07 gram). See Table at measurement.


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