Dictionary Entry
grain
grain is a 5-letter English word with 40 senses as verb & noun, noun, adjective, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: See Groan. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 40 senses
Definitions
- 1verb & noun
See Groan.
- 2noun
A single small hard seed; a kernel, especially of those plants, like wheat, whose seeds are used for food.
- 3noun
The fruit of certain grasses which furnish the chief food of man, as corn, wheat, rye, oats, etc., or the plants themselves; -- used collectively.
- 4noun
Any small, hard particle, as of sand, sugar, salt, etc.; hence, any minute portion or particle; as, a grain of gunpowder, of pollen, of starch, of sense, of wit, etc.
- 5noun
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. 7,000 grains constitute the pound avoirdupois, and 5,760 grains the pound troy. A grain is equal to .0648 gram. See Gram.
- 6noun
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.
- 7noun
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., of fine grain.
- 8noun
The direction, arrangement, or appearance of the fibers in wood, or of the strata in stone, slate, etc.
- 9noun
The fiber which forms the substance of wood or of any fibrous material.
- 10noun
The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
- 11noun
The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called draff.
- 12noun
A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock. See Grained., 4.
- 13adjective
Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
- 14adjective
A sort of spice, the grain of paradise.
- 15transitive verb
To paint in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc.
- 16transitive verb
To form (powder, sugar, etc.) into grains.
- 17transitive verb
To take the hair off (skins); to soften and raise the grain of (leather, etc.).
- 18noun
To yield fruit.
- 19noun
To form grains, or to assume a granular ferm, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
- 20noun
A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant.
- 21noun
A tine, prong, or fork.
- 22noun
One the branches of a valley or of a river.
- 23noun
An iron first speak or harpoon, having four or more barbed points.
- 24noun
A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
- 25noun
A thin piece of metal, used in a mold to steady a core.
- 26noun
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"
Synonyms
- 27noun
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"
- 28noun
the smallest possible unit of anything
"there was a grain of truth in what he said"
"he does not have a grain of sense"
- 29noun
foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
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- 30noun
a relatively small granular particle of a substance
"a grain of sand"
"a grain of sugar"
- 31noun
a cereal grass
"wheat is a grain that is grown in Kansas"
- 32noun
dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
Synonyms
- 33noun
1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams
- 34noun
1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams
- 35noun
a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat
- 36noun
the side of leather from which the hair has been removed
- 37verb
become granular
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- 38verb
form into grains
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- 39verb
paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood
- 40verb
thoroughly work in
"His hands were grained with dirt"
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