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grain
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- pronunciation:
- greIn
- parts of speech:
- noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
collectively, the small hard seeds of cereal plants such as wheat or rice, used for food and often ground into flour.
These animals are typically fed grain.The grain is stored in the silo.
- synonyms:
- cereal
- similar words:
- barley, buckwheat, corn, grist, groats, oats, rice, rye, seed, wheat
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| definition 2: |
a hard, individual seed of a cereal plant.
A few grains of wheat spilled out of the sack.She sprinkled the grains over the yard for the chickens.- synonyms:
- kernel
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| definition 3: |
cereal plants, such as wheat, corn, rice and the like.
The farmer planted grain in the larger fields and vegetables in the smaller.
- synonyms:
- cereals
- similar words:
- grasses, seed plants
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| definition 4: |
any tiny, hard particle.
Only a few grains of salt came out of the shaker.- synonyms:
- granule, particle, speck
- similar words:
- crumb, fleck, kernel, molecule, pellet
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| definition 5: |
the lengthwise pattern in materials such as wood, fabric, or leather.
By looking at the grain, he can tell which kind of wood the table is made of.- similar words:
- pattern, streaks, surface, texture
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| definition 6: |
in certain systems of weight, the smallest unit, derived from the weight of a ripe grain of wheat and equal to one seven-thousandth of a pound or 64.798 milligrams.
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| definition 7: |
the smallest amount.
There's not a grain of honesty in him.- synonyms:
- atom, hint, iota, jot, molecule, particle, scintilla, smidgen, soupçon, touch, trace, whit
- similar words:
- bit, modicum, mote, shred, speck
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| definition 8: |
natural character or disposition.
against the American grain- synonyms:
- disposition, spirit, temperament, tendency
- similar words:
- character, inclination, mentality
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| related words: |
dash, meal, weave |
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| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
grains, graining, grained |
| definition 1: |
to form into grains; granulate.
- synonyms:
- granulate
- similar words:
- pellet
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| definition 2: |
to paint in imitation of wood, stone, or the like.
- synonyms:
- striate
- similar words:
- comb, fleck, stipple, streak
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| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| definition: |
to form grains.
- synonyms:
- granulate
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broader category that includes grains |
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plant |
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some activities involving grains |
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cultivate, grind, harvest, plant, store, thresh |
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some containers for grains |
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hopper, sack, silo |
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some examples of grains |
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barley, corn, Indian corn, oat, rice, rye, wheat |
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some people associated with grains |
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farmer, miller |
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some things made from grains |
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alcohol, beer, broth, cereal, feed, flour, fodder, food, gin, graham, granola, mash, meal, oatmeal, oil, porridge, soup, whiskey |
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some things that eat grains |
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birds, human, insects, livestock, poultry |
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tools associated with grains |
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combine, flail, grindstone, mill, scoop, screen, scythe |
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units for measuring grains |
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bushel, peck |
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