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Meaning
Noun
●
The
harvested
seeds
of various
grass
food crops
eg
:
wheat
,
corn
, barley.
●
Similar
seeds
from any
food crop
, e.g;
buckwheat
,
amaranth
, quinoa.
●
A
single
seed
of
grass
food crops.
●
The
crops
from which
grain
is harvested.
●
A
linear
texture
of a
material
or surface.
●
A
single
particle
of a substance.
●
Any of various small
units
of
mass
originally
notionally
based on grain's
weight
,
variously
standardized
at different
places
and
times
, including
The English
grain
of ¹⁄₅₇₆₀
troy pound
or ¹⁄₇₀₀₀
pound
avoirdupois
, now
exactly
64.79891 mg.
The
metric
,
carat
, or
pearl
grain
of ¹⁄₄
carat
used for
measuring
precious stones
and
pearls
, now
exactly
50 mg.
The French
grain
of ¹⁄₉₂₁₆
livre
,
equivalent
to 53.11
mg
at
metricization
and
equal
to
exactly
54.25
mg
from 1812–1839 as part of the mesures usuelles.
●
Any of various small
units
of
length
originally
notionally
based on a grain's
width
,
variously
standardized
at different
places
and times.
●
The
carat
grain
of ¹⁄₄
carat
as a
measure
of
gold
purity
,
creating
a 96-point
scale
between 0% and 100%
purity
.
●
A
region
within a
material
having a
single crystal
structure or direction.
●
In Astronautics:
The
solid
piece
of
fuel
in an individual
solid
-fuel
rocket
engine.
●
A
reddish
dye
made from the
coccus
insect
, or
kermes
; hence, a
red
color
of any
tint
or
hue
, as
crimson
,
scarlet
, etc.; sometimes used by the
poets
as
equivalent
to Tyrian purple.
●
The
hair
side
of a piece
of
leather
, or the
marking
on that
side
.
●
The
remains
of
grain
, etc; after
brewing
or
distillation
; hence, any residuum.
●
In Botany:
A
rounded
prominence
on the back of
a
sepal
,
as in
the common dock.
●
Temper; natural
disposition
; inclination.
●
In Photography:
Visual
texture
in
processed
photographic
film
due to the
presence
of small
particles
of a
metallic
silver
, or
dye
clouds
, developed from
silver
halide
that have
received
enough photons.
●
A
branch
of a
tree
; a
stalk
or
stem
of a plant.
●
A
tine
,
prong
, or fork.
One of the
branches
of a
valley
or river.
An
iron
fish
spear
or
harpoon
, with
a number of
points
half-barbed inwardly.
A
blade
of a
sword
,
knife
, etc.
●
A
thin
piece
of
metal
, used in a
mould
to
steady
a core.
Verb
●
To
feed grain
to.
●
To make
granular
; to form into grains.
●
To form
grains
, or to
assume
a
granular
form, as the result of
crystallization
; to granulate.
●
To
texture
a
surface
in
imitation
of the
grain
of a
substance
such as wood.
●
To
remove
the
hair
or
fat
from a skin.
●
To
soften
leather.
●
To
yield
fruit.
Name
●
A
village
on the Isle of Grain, Medway
borough
, Kent, England (OS
grid
ref
TQ8876).
●
A surname.
Sourced from
Wiktionary
Origin
grain
English
grain
Old French (842-ca. 1400)
granum
Latin
Sourced from
Etym
Related
Wheat
Rice
Corn
Starch
Crop
Seed
Flour
Cereal
Meat
Maize
Fruit
Yeast
Sorghum
Seeds
Wood
Bread
Food
Straw
Barley
Fiber
Soybean
Fibre
Milk
Particle
Dairy
Oats
Plant
Crops
Leaf
Salt
Beans
Vegetable
Wool
Sugar
Malt
Cotton
Loaf
Paddy
Potato
Legume
Husk
Timber
Soil
Cheese
Hay
Vegetables
Powder
Soybeans
Sand
Potatoes
Oil
Wheat Flour
Rice Hulls
More
Rhymes
Cane
Fane
Sane
Mane
Sain
Vain
Dane
Pane
Wane
Vane
Lain
Rein
Kane
Vein
Fain
Gain
Bain
Jane
Main
Bane
Jane
Wain
Lane
Pain
Rain
Crane
Amain
Thane
Reign
Seine
Wayne
Plane
Spain
Shane
Chain
Feign
Brane
Paine
Grain
Brain
Inane
Again
Swain
Drane
Slane
Deign
Stane
Drain
Maine
Slain
Twain
Plain
Skein
Stain
Train
Crain
Insane
Attain
Ordain
Belain
Domain
Urbane
Obtain
Atwain
Mcbain
Strain
Alkane
Arcane
Retain
Detain
Remain
Elaine
Regain
Blaine
Humane
Fusain
Sprain
Klaine
Sustain
Terrain
Pertain
Ingrain
Abstain
Chicane
Abthane
Demesne
Moraine
Unchain
Entrain
Astrain
Arraign
Ukraine
Profane
Refrain
Contain
Cocaine
Macbain
Detrain
Explain
Retrain
Enplane
Mundane
Restain
Germane
Bahrain
Romaine
Eucaine
Disdain
Inhumane
Complain
Restrain
Montseny
Overlain
Marocain
Maintain
Campaign
Ptomaine
Lorraine
Distrain
Champaign
Entertain
Underlain
Aquitaine
Mansplain
Constrain
Ascertain
Appertain
Champagne
Withstrain
Pertaining
Legerdemain
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