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grain English

Meaning grain meaning

What does grain mean?
Definitions in simple English

grain Noun

— A grain is a seed that people eat, such as wheat, rice, corn, etc. Most North Americans get their grains from bread and pasta. — A grain is any very small piece of something, such as sand, salt, sugar, etc. One grain of salt is almost too small to see.

grain

— noun a relatively small granular particle of a substance a grain of sand a grain of sugar — noun (= cereal) foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses — noun the smallest possible unit of anything there was a grain of truth in what he said he does not have a grain of sense — noun the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric saw the board across the grain — noun a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat — noun 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams — noun 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams — noun dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn — noun a cereal grass wheat is a grain that is grown in Kansas — noun the side of leather from which the hair has been removed — verb paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood — verb thoroughly work in His hands were grained with dirt — verb form into grains — verb (= granulate) become granular — noun (= texture) the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance) breadfruit has the same texture as bread sand of a fine grain fish with a delicate flavor and texture a stone of coarse grain

Synonyms grain synonyms

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grain English » English

seed corn cereal kernel texture particle granule drop speck nut pip granulate bit barley weave crumb cereals wheat pellet fragment food feel crop structure provisions pit metric grain maize jot gr fruit food grain caryopsis bead atom tincture sperm single one semen scintilla rice produce morsel modicum millet iota ingrain gr. form crops

Topics grain topics

What do people use grain to talk about?
Universe, creation Plant

Parts of a plant
Daily life Food Food preparation Steps in food preparation

Grind flour

  • What words refer to the grain before it is ground?
    grain
Daily life Food Types of food Food from plants

Food from seeds
Work and occupation Agriculture Process harvest

Winnow grain
Work and occupation Occupation Working with wood

Wood
States Quantity Plural

Few, little
States Quantity Whole, complete

Piece
States Big

Weigh
States Quality

Texture
Work and occupation Agriculture Process harvest

Store the harvest
Universe, creation World Substance, matter

Soil, dirt
Language and thought Think Opinion

Doubt
Daily life Food Types of food Cooking ingredients

Sugar
Daily life Food Types of food Cooking ingredients

Salt
Work and occupation Agriculture Growing crops

Growing grain
Work and occupation Working with buildings

Building

Conjugation grain conjugation

How do you conjugate grain?

grain · verb

Examples grain examples

How do I use grain in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Sami took that with a grain of salt.
Rye was called the grain of poverty.
The farmer longs for the day when the grain ripens.
Early man used his fingers and toes to count the animals he owned, or the measures of grain he had stored.
You'd better take his words with a grain of salt.
The field mice were eating up the farmers' grain.
Waste not a single grain of rice!
They export grain to many countries.
Rice is a grain that feeds billions of people.
I drove back there with the people, over the meadow into the grain.
Every rumour contains a grain of truth.
If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, then speak to me.
Does Germany export grain?
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
We import grain from the United States.
We import grain from Canada every year.
In other cultures, the balls were filled with earth, grain, bits and pieces of plants, and sometimes even pieces of metal.
There isn't a grain of truth in what he says.
This wood has a beautiful grain.
The barns are full of grain.
Mary prefers whole-grain cereals.
There is not a grain of truth in it.

Movie subtitles

I think it will benefit you more rather then trying to mimic being generous with rotten grain.
It's a very versatile grain.
Track every grain of sand.
Half-grain solution.
Deceptions horribly against the grain. when i deceived him, i would deceive god himself, i was so miserable!
Shiploads of grain.
How much grain?
Robert, have his cattle driven into our lines and the grain stored in our ships.
Not a grain of humor in you.
Should they transport their grain free of charge on the roads and over the bridges?
How much do you take for your grain?
The Jew has got his hand on money, on salt, on beer, on wine, even on grain.
For this, a lot of wheat grain had to be seeded and cut.
I guess it must be a grain of Italian dust left over from your last campaign.
You men of science regard me and my kind as meddlesome fanatics but ld rather have one grain of my faith than all your scientific disbelief.
For the hay the ploughing the seeds the harrow the grain the potatoes and the coffin.
Last year, did not King Phillip confiscate 12 English ships. loaded with grain in Spanish ports?
The section is noted for gold, silver, copper, grain.
This area is a grain field.
She's been engaged to four guys since I've been gone, one of them a feed and grain merchant.
I am not interested in discussing the grain and texture of Bill Cole's hair follicles before I've had my breakfast.
From the outside, this place looks like a grain elevator.
Ranchers roasting grain and calling it coffee.
You can't make burnt grain taste like coffee.
Like harvesters going through a field of grain.
Analyze every drop of fuel. Track every grain of sand.
Every grain counts!
I can't, we're going against the grain.
I said that we're going against the grain.
No. Nor will you ever again get so much as a grain of wheat from me.
Quarter grain M.S. every four hours, more often if necessary.
If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear your favours nor your hate.
A homesteader can't run but a few beef, but he can grow grain. and then with his garden and hogs and milk, he'll be all right.
Grain, that which in England we call corn, and in the new world, we call wheat.
When I was a child, I was stuffed with religion like a Strasbourg goose with grain.

News and current affairs

The solution is to increase grain yields to at least two tons - and in some places to three or more tons - per hectare.
Compare Argentina with another grain exporter, Australia, which has been hit by some of the same shocks.
Rumsfeld's mistrust of the European approach contains a grain of truth.
Grain prices have more than doubled since 2004, and prices for most other foods have increased significantly.
If you reduce your child's intake of fruits and vegetables by just 0.03 grams a day (that's the equivalent of half a grain of rice) when you opt for more expensive organic produce, the total risk of cancer goes up, not down.
Their true motivation is a question best left to future historians - who, I have no doubt, will take much of the contemporary media coverage with a grain of salt.
The extent of persistent unemployment, despite different labor-market structures and national institutions, suggests that theories that pinpoint one key failure should be taken with a grain of salt.
So it took another couple of months before the grain reached the farmers.
Farmers were left with a pink grain that they were told not to eat, only to plant.
Some began feeding the grain to chickens or sheep and watched to see if there were any bad side effects.
So some then gave the grain to old grandfathers and grandmothers, who also didn't drop dead instantly.
At that point, it seems, most farmers began giving the grain to their livestock and eating it themselves.
As grain was fed to chicken, sheep, and cows, meat, milk, cheese, and butter became contaminated.
When the imported grain was identified as the cause of the poisoning, Iraq's government acted decisively.
The result is a grain yield (for example, maize) that is roughly one-third less than what could be achieved with better farm inputs.
African farmers produce roughly one ton of grain per hectare, compared with more than four tons per hectare in China, where farmers use fertilizers heavily.
Under traditional agricultural conditions, the yields of grain - rice, wheat, maize, sorghum, or millet - are usually around one ton per hectare, for one planting season per year.
The world should set as a practical goal of doubling grain yields in low-income Africa and similar regions (such as Haiti) during the next five years.
But, then again, one should take all economic forecasts about Argentina with a grain of salt.
Of course, there is a grain of truth in neoclassical theory; if there weren't, it probably wouldn't have survived as long as it has (though bad ideas often survive in economics remarkably well).
Grain consumption per head in India has remained static, and is less than one-fifth the figure for the US, where it has been rising.
His proposal goes with the grain of thinking among EU officials (to the point, regrettably, of echoing their mercantilist language).
If producing and consuming countries in grain markets could cooperatively agree to refrain from such government intervention - probably by working through the World Trade Organization - world price volatility might be lower.
Ethanol subsidies, such as those paid to American corn farmers, do not accomplish policymakers' avowed environmental goals, but do divert grain and thus help drive up world food prices.
Like the view that running away from lions provokes them to eat you, there is a grain of truth in the view that banks fail because depositors panic.
That this should happen while developed nations waste hundreds of millions of tons of grain and soybeans by feeding them to animals, and obesity reaches epidemic proportions, undermines our claims to believe in the equal value of all human life.
But it is a small grain, and one on which the average uninsured depositor, like the average tourist in a game park, would be ill-advised to rely.

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