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grain
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??e?n/
- Rhymes: -e?n
Etymology 1
From Middle English greyn, grayn, grein, from Old French grain, grein, from Latin gr?num (“seed”), from Proto-Indo-European *?r?h?nóm (“grain”). Compare English corn. Doublet of gram.
Noun
grain (countable and uncountable, plural grains)
- (uncountable) The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
- (uncountable) Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
- (countable) A single seed of grass food crops.
- (countable, uncountable) The crops from which grain is harvested.
- (uncountable) A linear texture of a material or surface.
- (countable) A single particle of a substance.
- (countable) 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.
- (countable) A former unit of gold purity, also known as carat grain, equal to 1?4 "carat" (karat).
- (materials) A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
- 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.
- a. 1825, Quoted by Coleridge, preface to Aids to Reflection:
- […] doing as the dyers do, who, having first dipped their silks in colours of less value, then give them the last tincture of crimson in grain.
- a. 1825, Quoted by Coleridge, preface to Aids to Reflection:
- The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- (in the plural) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called draff.
- (botany) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock.
- Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
- 1630, John Hayward, The Life and Raigne of King Edward VI
- brothers […] not united in grain
- 1630, John Hayward, The Life and Raigne of King Edward VI
- (photography, 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.
Derived terms
- against the grain
- grain of salt
- grainy
Related terms
Translations
See also
- cereal
- Appendix:Grains – translation tables for various grains
Verb
grain (third-person singular simple present grains, present participle graining, simple past and past participle grained)
- To feed grain to.
- (transitive) To make granular; to form into grains.
- (intransitive) To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
- To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
- (tanning) To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
- (tanning) To soften leather.
- To yield fruit.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Gower to this entry?)
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English grayn, from Old Norse grein.
Noun
grain (plural grains)
- A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of G. Douglas to this entry?)
- A tine, prong, or fork.
- One of the branches of a valley or river.
- An iron fish spear or harpoon, with a number of points half-barbed inwardly.
- 4 May 1770, Stephen Forwood (gunner on H.M. Bark Endeavour), journal (quoted by Parkin (page 195)
- Served 5 lb of fish per man which was caught by striking with grains
- 4 May 1770, Stephen Forwood (gunner on H.M. Bark Endeavour), journal (quoted by Parkin (page 195)
- A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
- (founding) A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core.
Further reading
- grain in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- grain in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- A ring, Ngari, Nigra, Ragin, Rigan, agrin, nigra, raign, raing
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /????/
- Rhymes: -??
Etymology 1
From Middle French, from Old French grain, grein, from Latin gr?num, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *?r?h?nóm.
Noun
grain m (plural grains)
- grain
- (figuratively) a small amount, a bit
Derived terms
- avoir un grain
- grain de beauté
- gros-grain
- mettre son grain de sel
- ramener son grain de sel
- séparer le bon grain de l'ivraie
- veiller au grain
Related terms
- grenier
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
grain m (plural grains)
- (nautical) squall, thunderstorm
Derived terms
Anagrams
- garni
Further reading
- “grain” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle English
Verb
grain
- Alternative form of greynen
Old French
Alternative forms
- grein
Etymology
From Latin gr?num.
Noun
grain m (oblique plural grainz, nominative singular grainz, nominative plural grain)
- grain (edible part of a cereal plant)
Related terms
- grenier / guernier
Descendants
- Middle French: grain
- French: grain
- ? Middle English: greyn, grayn, greyne, grayne, grein, grone
- English: grain
- Scots: grain
- Yola: gryne
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grail
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??e??/
- Rhymes: -e?l
Etymology 1
Old French graal (“cup”), from Medieval Latin gradalis, possibly corrupted over time from Latin crater (“bowl”).
Noun
grail (plural grails)
- The Holy Grail.
- Something eagerly sought or quested for.
Related terms
- Sangrail
Etymology 2
From Old French grael, ultimately from Latin graduale. Doublet of gradual.
Noun
grail (plural grails)
- A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual.
- 1694, John Strype, the Memorials of Thomas Cranmer
- antiphonals, missals, grails, processionals, etc.
- 1694, John Strype, the Memorials of Thomas Cranmer
Etymology 3
Origin uncertain; perhaps a reduced form of gravel.
Noun
grail (uncountable)
- (poetic) Small particles of earth; gravel.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vii:
- Hereof this gentle knight vnweeting was, / And lying downe vpon the sandie graile, / Drunke of the streame, as cleare as cristall glas [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vii:
Etymology 4
Compare Old French graite slender.
Noun
grail (plural grails)
- One of the small feathers of a hawk.
Anagrams
- argil, glair
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