From en.wiktionary.org:
[gráin]
** English
[mul=Wood grain]
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
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*** Etymology 1
[en] From [en], [enm], [enm], from [en], [fro], from [en], from [en]. [en].
**** Noun
[~]
1. [en] [en] The harvested seed s of various grass food crop s eg: wheat , corn , barley .
2. [en] [en] Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat , amaranth , quinoa .
3. [en] [en] A single seed of grass food crops.
4. [en] [en] The crops from which grain is harvested .
5. * [entry= [Oats]]
6. [en] [en] A linear texture of a material or surface.
7. [en] [en] A single particle of a substance.
8. [en] [en] Any of various small unit s of mass originally notionally base d on grain's weight , variously standardized at different place s and time s, including
1. [en] The English grain of [5760] troy pound or [7000] pound avoirdupois , now exactly 64.79891 mg .
2. [en] The metric , carat , or pearl grain of [4] carat use d for measuring precious stone s and pearl s, now exactly 50 mg .
3. [en] [en] The French grain of [9216] livre , equivalent to 53.11 mg at metricization and equal to exactly 54.25 mg from 1812–1839 as part of the _[mesures usuelles]_ .
9. [en] [en] Any of various small unit s of length originally notionally base d on a grain's width , variously standardized at different place s and time s.
10. [en] [en] The carat grain of [4] carat as a measure of gold purity , creating a 96- point scale between 0% and 100% purity .
11. [en] [en] A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
12. [en] [en] The solid piece of fuel in an individual solid - fuel rocket engine .
13. [en] 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 .
14. * [poem=Penseroso]
15. * [1825] , Quoted by Coleridge, preface to _Aids to Reflection_ :
16. *: [...] 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 .
17. [en] The hair side of a piece of leather , or the marking on that side.
18. * [en]
19. [en] [en] The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum .
20. [en] [en] A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal , as in the common dock .
21. Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
22. * [passage=brothers [...] not united in GRAIN]
23. [en] [en] Visual texture in processed photographic film due to the presence of small particle s of a metallic silver, or dye cloud s, developed from silver halide that have received enough photons .
***** Derived terms
{{col|en|against the grain |ancient grain |argyrophilic grain disease |end
grain |feed grain |feedgrain |felt grain|winnow grain from chaff |foodgrain
|go against the grain |grainage |grain beetle |grain boundary |grain corn
|grain elevator |grain engulfment |grain entrapment |grainfall |grainfield
|grainflow |grainish |grain itch |grainland |grainless |grainlike |grainline
|grain moon |grain of paradise |grain of salt |grain of truth |grain physa
|grain popping |grain refiner |grain size |grains of paradise |grainstone
|grain weevil |grain whiskey |grain whisky |grainy |grain yard |grainygrip
grain |grip grain |guinea grains |intergrain |intragrain |kefir grain
|micrograin |multigrain |nanograin |nongrain |overgrain |pollen grain
|pseudograin |puffed grain |seed grain |silver-grain |silver grain |snow
grains |soft-grain |subgrain |supergrain |there's a grain of truth in every
joke |troy grain |whole grain |wholegrain |whole-grain |with a grain of salt
|woodgrain }}
***** Related terms
[en]
***** Translations
[harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops]
- Akkadian: [akk]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Aromanian: [rup]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Basque: [eu] , [eu] , [eu]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] , [be]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Dalmatian: [dlm]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Egyptian: [sšr]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et] , [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Gothic: [got]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Haitian Creole: [ht]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Javanese: [jv]
- Kazakh: [kk] , [kk]
- Khiamniungan Naga: [kix]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kumyk: [kum] , [kum] , [kum]
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Ladin: [lld]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latgalian: [ltg] , [ltg]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv] , [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt]
- Low German: [nds]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Megleno-Romanian: [ruq]
- Mongolian: [mn] , [mn] , [mn]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Old Church Slavonic: [cu] , [cu]
- Old English: [ang]
- Oromo: [om]
- Ossetian: [os]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa]
- Polabian: [pox]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Sanskrit: [sa] , [sa]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sidamo: [sid]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl] , [sl]
- Southern Altai: [alt]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg]
- Tatar: [tt] , [tt]
- Thai: [th] , [th] , [th]
- Tigrinya: [ti]
- Tocharian B: [txb] , [txb]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk] , [tk] , [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Uzbek: [uz] , [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy]
- Zazaki: [zza] , [zza]
- Zulu: [zu]
[trans-bottom]
[seeds from any food crop]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[single seed of grain]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my] , [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chechen: [ce]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Japanese: [particle] [ja] , [seed] [ja]
- Khiamniungan Naga: [kix]
- Khmer: [km]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latgalian: [ltg]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Maori: [mi]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Old English: [ang]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] [legumes] , [es] [corn]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th]
- Tigrinya: [ti]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
- Welsh: [cy]
- Yiddish: [yi] , [yi] , [yi]
- Zulu: [zu] , [zu]
[trans-bottom]
[crops from which grain is harvested]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Bashkir: [ba] , [ba]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[linear texture of material or surface]
- Amharic: [am]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hausa: [ha]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Irish: [ga]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kannada: [kn]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khmer: [km]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Maori: [mi]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tg]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th]
- Tigre: [tig]
- Tigrinya: [ti]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[single particle of a substance]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] , [be] , [be] , [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maori: [mi]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Thai: [th]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Zulu: [zu]
[trans-bottom]
[unit of mass notionally based on grain's weight]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Thai: [th]
[trans-bottom]
[unit of length notionally based on a grain's width]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[[4] carat as measure of gold purity] [trans-bottom]
[materials: region within a material having a single crystal structure or
direction]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[rocketry: solid piece of fuel] [trans-bottom]
[reddish dye made from the coccus insect]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[hair side of a piece of leather]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[botany: rounded prominence on the back of a sepal] [trans-bottom]
[temper; natural disposition; inclination]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[visual texture in processed photographic film]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Basque: [eu]
- Breton: [1] [br] [collective noun] , [2] [br] , [suffix -enn for the collective nouns] (5)
- Esperanto: [eo]
- French: [1] [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [1, 2, 3, 5] [de] , [1, 3] [de] , [4] [de] , [6] [de]
- Interlingua: [1] [ia]
- Italian: [it]
- Latin: [la]
- Old English: [ang] [1,2,5]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Telugu: [te]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
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***** See also
- [en]
- Appendix:Grains – translation tables for various grains
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To feed grain to.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1852 | author=Herman Melville | title=Pierre; or The Ambiguities
|passage=He said that no man loved his horses, unless his own hands GRAINED
them. Every Christmas he gave them brimming measures.}}
1. [en] To make granular ; to form into grains.
2. [en] To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization ; to granulate .
3. To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood .
4. [en] To remove the hair or fat from a skin .
5. [en] To soften leather.
6. To yield fruit.
***** Derived terms
- grain up
***** Translations
[to feed grain to]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Swahili: [sw]
[trans-bottom]
[to make granular]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
[trans-bottom]
[to assume a granular form]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[to imitate the grain of wood]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[tanning: to remove the hair or fat from a skin]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[tanning: to soften leather]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
[trans-bottom]
[to yield fruit]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
*** Etymology 2
From [en], from [en], from [en], of [en] origin. Related to [en].
**** Alternative forms
- [en]
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A branch of a tree ; a stalk or stem of a plant ; an offshoot .
2. A tine , prong , or fork .
1. One of the branches of a valley or river .
2. An iron fish spear or harpoon, with a number of points half- barb ed inwardly.
3. * 4 MAY 1770 , Stephen Forwood (gunner on 吴语: HM Bark Endeavour ), _journal_ (quoted by Parkin (page 195)
4. *: _Served 5 lb of fish per man which was caught by striking with GRAINS _
5. A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
6. An arm of a cross .
3. [en] A thin piece of metal , used in a mould to steady a core .
4. [en] A branch or arm of a stream, inlet, or sea.
5. [en] A fork in a river valley or ravine.
6. [en] The branch of a family ; clan .
7. [en] The groin ; crotch .
8. [en] The fang s of a tooth .
*** Further reading
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Century 1911]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** French
*** Pronunciation
- [fr-IPA]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
*** Etymology 1
[fr], from [fr], [fro], from [fr], ultimately from [fr].
**** Noun
[m]
1. [en]
2. [fr] a small amount, a bit
***** Derived terms
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
***** Related terms
- [fr]
*** Etymology 2
Perhaps from etymology 1, referring to hailstones. [fr]
**** Noun
[m]
1. [fr] [fr] squall , thunderstorm
***** Derived terms
{{col3|fr |avoir un grain |veiller au grain }}
*** Further reading
- [R:fr:TLFi]
*** Anagrams
- [fr]
** Middle English
*** Verb
[enm]
1. [enm]
** Old French
*** Alternative forms
- [fro]
*** Etymology
From [fro].
*** Noun
[m]
1. [en] [edible part of a cereal plant]
2. * [fro]
**** Related terms
- [fro] / [fro]
**** Descendants
- [frm]
- [fr]
- [ga]
- [enm]
** Scots
*** Alternative forms
- [sco]
*** Etymology
From [sco], [enm], [enm], from [sco], from [sco].
*** Noun
[sco-noun]
1. [sco] A branch or bough .
2. [sco] A stalk .
3. [sco] A prong .
4. An offshoot , branch, or member of anything
5. [sco] An arm .
6. [sco] A branch.
7. A branch of a stream ; the arm of a loch .