different between grained vs porphyry

grained

English

Verb

grained

  1. simple past tense and past participle of grain

Adjective

grained (comparative more grained, superlative most grained)

  1. Having a grain or grains
  2. Stained with an imitation wood grain
  3. (in combination) Having a specified type of grain e.g. close-grained

Hyponyms

  • coarse-grained
  • close-grained
  • fine-grained

Translations

Anagrams

  • Dearing, Reading, dearing, deraign, gradine, inraged, reading

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porphyry

English

Etymology

From Old French porfire, from Ancient Greek ?????????? ????? ("purple stone").

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?p??f??i/

Noun

porphyry (countable and uncountable, plural porphyries)

  1. (geology) a hard igneous rock consisting of large crystals in a fine-grained matrix
    1. A purple-red rock of this kind.

Derived terms

  • porphyrous
  • porphyry shell

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