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Definition of to grain in English English dictionary: A very small unit of weight, in England equal to 1/480 of an ounce troy, 0.0648 grams or, to be more exact, 64.79891 milligrams. A carat grain or pearl grain is 1/4 carat or 50 milligrams. The old French grain was 1/9216 livre or 53.11 milligrams, and in the mesures usuelles permitted from 1812 to 1839, with the livre redefined as 500 grams, it was 54.25 milligrams; To remove the hair or fat from a skin; The harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley
We stored a thousand tons of grain for the winter.; A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction; To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood; A single particle of a substance
a grain of salt.; To feed grain to; To make granular; to form into grains; To soften leather; {v} to form into grains, to granulate; {n} corn, one feed of corn or fruit, a small particle, weight, color, temper, make; 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64 799 milligrams; {f} manufacture grains; crumble into granules; paint in imitation of a grain (such as wood grain); Refers to the patterns formed by the way wood fibers are arranged on the bat Tight, medium, and wide grain refers to the size of these patterns in relation to other professional player bats of the era; Any small, hard particle, as of sand, sugar, salt, etc; Refers to paper fibre direction Folding occurs easily along the grain but must be forced if at right angles to the grain; The fruit of certain grasses which furnish the chief food of man, as corn, wheat, rye, oats, etc; In a photograph On monochrome film it is the structure, clumps of silver atoms, present after exposure and development In the print it is the negative of this - the printed gaps between the clumps; the direction or texture of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric; "saw the board across the grain" foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses a small hard particle; "a grain of sand" dry seedlike fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e; A linear texture of a material or surface; dry seedlike fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e g wheat, barley, Indian corn; The crops from which grain is harvested; One the branches of a valley or of a river; The remains of grain, etc; To take the hair off (skins); to soften and raise the grain of (leather, etc; (1) The texture of wood, produced by the kinds of xylem cells present (2) The fruit of a member of the grasses; The unit of the English system of weights; so called because considered equal to the average of grains taken from the middle of the ears of wheat; The direction, size, arrangement or appearance of the fibers in wood or veneer; In an enlarged image, a speckled or mottled effect caused by oversized clumps of silver in the negative It is the granular texture appearing to some degree in all processed photographic materials In black and white photographs the grains are minute particles of black metallic silver that constitute the dark areas of a photograph In color photographs the silver is removed chemically, but tiny blotches of dye retain the appearance of grain The more sensitive - or faster - the film, the coarser the grain; 7,000 grains constitute the pound avoirdupois, and 5,760 grains the pound troy; Also called draff; 799 milligrams used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood; a small hard particle; "a grain of sand"; dry seedlike fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e; in papermaking, the direction in which most fibers lie, which corresponds with the direction the paper is formed on the mill machinery Paper folds easily when folded with the grain and it folds poorly and creates a rougher edge when folded against the grain; after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple; A grain of a quality is a very small amount of it. There's more than a grain of truth in that; A thin piece of metal, used in a mold to steady a core; (1) in paper, the direction in which the majority of the fibers lie; (2) smallest unit of weight used in American system of measuring based on the weight of a grain of wheat equal to 0 0648 gram; (3) indicates silver halide particles that are larger than normal in a processed photographic film or print; (4) printed resemblance to a wooden surface; If you say that an idea or action goes against the grain, you mean that it is very difficult for you to accept it or do it, because it conflicts with your previous ideas, beliefs, or principles. Privatisation goes against the grain of their principle of opposition to private ownership of industry; thoroughly work in; "His hands were grained with dirt"; A single seed of grain; To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate; into grains; The direction in which the paper fibers lie, corresponding to the direction in which the paper was made It's better to fold a paper against the grain because the paper fibers won't split and the paper won't tear If you fold or cut paper with the grain, the paper will curl at the edges; or the plants themselves; used collectively; To yield fruit; formed because of the way wood grows Wood fibers grow in the direction of the grain, this is along the length of the tree stem; The direction in which the fibers in a sheet of paper have been made on a paper machine; The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side; of fine grain; Temper; natural disposition; inclination; {i} cereal; seed; granule; plants producing grain; particle; small portion of; texture, weave; A grain of wheat, rice, or other cereal crop is a seed from it. a grain of wheat. rice grains; The fiber which forms the substance of wood or of any fibrous material; The pattern of fibers in paper, board, and other materials During manufacture, most fibers will line up parallel to each other resulting in a predominant grain direction Grain direction influences the strength of paper and board and has implications for folding, gluing, etc; A grain is equal to; The composite particles of any substance; that arrangement of the particles of any body which determines its comparative roughness or hardness; texture; as, marble, sugar, sandstone, etc; (1) One of the earliest units of weight in which one grain was the equivalent of a grain of wheat taken from the middle of the ear (2) Spherical particles of silver grain widely sold in the jewelry trade for alloying, made by pouring molten silver into water; 0648 gram; A solid polyhedral (or many sided crystal) consisting of groups of atoms bound together in a regular geometric pattern In mill practice grains are usually studied only as they appear in one plane (1) (Direction of) Refers to grain fiber following the direction of rolling and parallel to edges of strip or sheets (2) To bend across the grain is to bend at right angles to the direction of rolling (3) To bend with the grain is to bend parallel to the direction of rolling In steel, the ductility in the direction of rolling is almost twice that at right angles to the direction of rolling; 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64 799 milligrams; Grain is a cereal crop, especially wheat or corn, that has been harvested and is used for food or in trade. a bag of grain. the best grains; The Grain direction is the direction that most of the paper fibers lay longitudinally in a sheet of paper The paper fibers lay parallel to the direction in which the paper is made on the paper machine You can determine the Grain Direction of a sheet of paper by comparing the flexing resistance of the sheet in the East-West direction versus the North-South direction The direction which offers the least resistance is the grain direction; 799 milligrams 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64; form into grains; Direction of fibers in a sheet of paper Long grain describes fibers running parallel to the longest side of a sheet short grain running parallel to the short side; the direction or texture of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric; "saw the board across the grain"; wheat, barley, Indian corn 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64