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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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The meaning of GRAIN is a single small hard seed. How to use grain in a sentence.
grain noun (PHOTOGRAPH) [ C or U ] the pattern of extremely small spots of black and white or colour, that form a photographic or film image, or one of these small spots: fine /coarse-grain film. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
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 from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. grain. noun. /ɡreɪn/ Idioms. [uncountable, countable] the small hard seeds of food plants such as wheat, rice, etc.; a single seed of such a plant. Russia sold 12 million tons of grain abroad last year. America’s grain exports.
Define grain. grain synonyms, grain pronunciation, grain translation, English dictionary definition of grain. 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...
Grain is a cereal crop, especially wheat or corn, that has been harvested and is used for food or in trade. ...a bag of grain. ...the best grains. Synonyms: cereal, corn More Synonyms of grain. 3.countable noun. A grain of something such as sand or salt is a tiny hard piece of it. ...a grain of sand. [ + of]
a very small amount of a quality: There isn't a grain of truth in her story. the grain. the natural direction and pattern of lines which you can see in wood or material: to cut something along/against the grain.