{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
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
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