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Sounds | grey'n |
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Rhymes | abstain, again, airplane, and 116 more rhymes in eyn at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | A small hard particle. |
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Examples | "a grain of sand" |
Narrower | granule |
Broader | atom, molecule, particle, corpuscle, mote, speck |
Verbs | grain; grain; grain |
Meaning | Foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses. |
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Synonyms | food grain, cereal |
Narrower | corn, edible corn; grist; groats; millet; barley, barleycorn; buckwheat; wheat, wheat berry; oat; rice; wild rice, Indian rice; malt |
Broader | foodstuff, food product |
Meaning | Used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat. |
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Synonyms | metric grain |
Part of | decigram, dg |
Parts | milligram, mg |
Broader | metric weight unit, weight unit |
Meaning | 1/60 dram. Equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams. |
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Part of | scruple; pennyweight |
Broader | troy unit; apothecaries' unit, apothecaries' weight |
Meaning | 1/7000 pound. Equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams. |
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Part of | dram |
Broader | avoirdupois unit |
Meaning | Dry seedlike fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn. |
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Synonyms | caryopsis |
Narrower | amaranth; barleycorn; wheat berry; kernel; rye |
Broader | seed |
Adjectives | cereal |
Meaning | The direction or texture of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric. |
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Examples | "saw the board across the grain" |
Narrower | wood grain, woodgrain; graining, woodgraining |
Broader | texture |
Verbs | grain |
Meaning | Thoroughly work in. |
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Pattern | Something ----s something |
Examples | "His hands were grained with dirt" |
Synonyms | ingrain |
Broader | penetrate, perforate |
Meaning | Paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Broader | paint |
Nouns | grain; grain; graining |
Meaning | Form into grains. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Synonyms | granulate |
Cause to | granulate, grain |
Broader | shape, form |
Nouns | grain |
Meaning | Become granular. |
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Pattern | Something ----s |
Synonyms | granulate |
Caused by | granulate, grain |
Broader | change shape, change form, deform |
Nouns | grain |