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| grain | |
| 1. sost. cereale | |
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| grain | |
| 1. subst. The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley. |  |
| We stored a thousand tons of grain for the winter. | |
| 2. subst. Similar seeds from any food crop, eg buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa. | |
| 3. subst. A single seed of grass food crops. | |
| a grain of wheat | |
| grains of oat | |
| 4. subst. The crops from which grain is harvested. | |
| The fields were planted with grain. | |
| 5. subst. A linear texture of a material or surface. | |
| Cut along the grain of the wood. | |
| He doesn't like to shave against the grain. | |
| 6. subst. A single particle of a substance. | |
| a grain of sand | |
| a grain of salt | |
| 7. subst. 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 car | |
| 8. subst. A former unit of gold purity, also known as carat grain, equal to (frac, 4) "carat" (karat). | |
| 9. subst. (materials) A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction. | |
| 10. subst. 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. | |
| 11. subst. The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side. | |
| 12. subst. (in the plural) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called draff. | |
| 13. subst. (botany) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock. | |
| 14. subst. Temper; natural disposition; inclination. | |
| 15. subst. (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 eno | |
| 16. v. To feed grain to. | |
| 17. v. To make granular; to form into grains. | |
| 18. v. (intransitive) To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate. | |
| 19. v. To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood. | |
| 20. v. (tanning) To remove the hair or fat from a skin. | |
| 21. v. (tanning) To soften leather. | |
| 22. v. To yield fruit. | |
| 23. subst. A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant. | |
| 24. subst. A tine, prong, or fork. | |
| 25. subst. One of the branches of a valley or river. | |
| 26. subst. An iron fish spear or harpoon, with a number of points half-barbed inwardly. | |
| 27. subst. A blade of a sword, knife, etc. | |
| 28. subst. (founding) A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core. | |
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| chicco | |
| 1. subst. grain (of cereal) | |
| 2. subst. coffee bean | |
| 3. subst. bead (of the Rosary) | |
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