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- Dictionarygrain/ɡreɪn/
noun
- 1. wheat or any other cultivated cereal used as food. Similar
- 2. a single fruit or seed of a cereal: "a few grains of corn" Similar
verb
- 1. give a rough surface or texture to: "her fingers were grained with chalk dust"
- 2. paint (something, especially furniture or interior surfaces) in imitation of the grain of wood or marble: "what is the use of having natural wood when you can grain it like that?"
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GRAIN definition: 1. a seed or seeds from a plant, especially a plant like a grass such as rice or wheat: 2. a very…. Learn more.
The meaning of GRAIN is a single small hard seed. How to use grain in a sentence.
Grain definition: a small, hard seed, especially the seed of a food plant such as wheat, corn, rye, oats, rice, or millet.. See examples of GRAIN used in a sentence.
Definition of grain noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
any small, hard particle, as of sand, gold, pepper, or gunpowder. 5. the smallest unit of weight in most systems, originally determined by the weight of a plump grain of wheat. In the U.S. and British systems, as in avoirdupois, troy, and apothecaries' weights, the grain is identical.
grain. (grān) n. 1. a. A small, dry, one-seeded fruit of a cereal grass, having the fruit and the seed walls united: a single grain of wheat; gleaned the grains from the ground one at a time. Also called caryopsis. b. The fruits of cereal grasses especially after having been harvested, considered as a group: The grain was stored in a silo. 2. a.
Grain is the texture on piece of wood, which often forms long patterns that show the direction in which the tree grew. You may have heard someone say "there's a grain of truth to that" when referring to an outrageous story that has a tiny bit of truth to it.
