avienta

Phonetic: "/ɡɹeɪn/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.

Example: We stored a thousand tons of grain for the winter.

Definition: Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.

Definition: A single seed of grass food crops.

Example: a grain of wheat

Definition: The crops from which grain is harvested.

Example: The fields were planted with grain.

Definition: A linear texture of a material or surface.

Example: Cut along the grain of the wood.

Definition: A single particle of a substance.

Example: a grain of salt

Definition: 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 (0.002285714 avoirdupois ounce). 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.

Definition: A former unit of gold purity, also known as carat grain, equal to 1/4 "carat" (karat).

Definition: (materials) A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.

Definition: 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.

Definition: The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.

Definition: (in the plural) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called draff.

Definition: A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock.

Definition: Temper; natural disposition; inclination.

Definition: (videography) Visual texture in processed photographic film due to the presence of small particles of a metallic silver, or dye clouds, developed from silver halide that have received enough photons.

Phonetic: "/ɡɹeɪn/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To feed grain to.

Definition: To make granular; to form into grains.

Definition: To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.

Definition: To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.

Definition: (tanning) To remove the hair or fat from a skin.

Definition: (tanning) To soften leather.

Definition: To yield fruit.

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To separate the grain from the straw or husks (chaff) by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery.

Definition: To beat soundly, usually with some tool such as a stick or whip; to drub.

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: The process by which something is threshed.