grain

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley. uncountable
    — We stored a thousand tons of grain for the winter.
  2. A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant; an offshoot.
  3. Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa. uncountable
  4. A tine, prong, or fork.; One of the branches of a valley or river.
  5. A single seed of grass food crops. countable
    — a grain of wheat
  6. A tine, prong, or fork.; An iron fish spear or harpoon, with a number of points half-barbed inwardly.
    — Served 5 lb of fish per man which was caught by striking with grains
  7. The crops from which grain is harvested. countable,uncountable
    — The fields were planted with grain.
  8. A tine, prong, or fork.; A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
  9. A tine, prong, or fork.; An arm of a cross.
  10. A linear texture of a material or surface. uncountable
    — Cut along the grain of the wood.
  11. A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core.
  12. A single particle of a substance. countable
    — a grain of sand
  13. A branch or arm of a stream, inlet, or sea. dialectal
  14. Any of various small units of mass originally notionally based on grain's weight, variously standardized at different places and times, including; The English grain of ¹⁄₅₇₆₀ troy pound or ¹⁄₇₀₀₀ pound avoirdupois, now exactly 64.79891 mg. countable,uncountable
  15. A fork in a river valley or ravine. dialectal
  16. Any of various small units of mass originally notionally based on grain's weight, variously standardized at different places and times, including; The metric, carat, or pearl grain of ¹⁄₄ carat used for measuring precious stones and pearls, now exactly 50 mg. countable,uncountable
  17. Any of various small units of mass originally notionally based on grain's weight, variously standardized at different places and times, including; The French grain of ¹⁄₉₂₁₆ livre, equivalent to 53.11 mg at metricization and equal to exactly 54.25 mg from 1812–1839 as part of the mesures usuelles. countable,historical,uncountable
  18. The branch of a family; clan. dialectal
  19. Any of various small units of length originally notionally based on a grain's width, variously standardized at different places and times. countable,historical
  20. The groin; crotch. dialectal
  21. The fangs of a tooth. dialectal
  22. The carat grain of ¹⁄₄ carat as a measure of gold purity, creating a 96-point scale between 0% and 100% purity. countable,historical
  23. A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction. countable,uncountable
  24. The solid piece of fuel in an individual solid-fuel rocket engine. countable,uncountable
  25. 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. countable,uncountable
    — all in a robe of darkest grain
  26. The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side. countable,uncountable
    — The grain of the leather is also sometimes damaged by the filling , by the taking off the hair , and by the river work.
  27. The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. countable,in-plural,uncountable
  28. A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock. countable,uncountable
  29. Temper; natural disposition; inclination. countable,uncountable
    — brothers […] not united in grain
  30. 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. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To feed grain to. transitive
    — He said that no man loved his horses, unless his own hands grained them. Every Christmas he gave them brimming measures.
  2. To make granular; to form into grains. transitive
  3. To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate. intransitive
  4. To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
  5. To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
  6. To soften leather.
  7. To yield fruit.

词形变化

grains plural grains present,singular,third-person graining participle,present grained participle,past grained past grains plural grane alternative

词汇关系

近义词
grain
上位词
food
下位词
wheat rye rice maize barley millet oat sorghum
衍生词
against the grain ancient grain argyrophilic grain disease brewers' spent grains distillers' grains end grain feedgrain feed grain felt grain 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 long-grain micrograin multigrain nanograin nongrain overgrain pollen grain pseudograin puffed grain seed grain short-grain silver grain silver-grain snow grains soft-grain subgrain supergrain there's a grain of truth in every joke troy grain whole grain whole-grain wholegrain winnow grain from chaff with a grain of salt woodgrain grain up
相关词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English greyn, grayn, grein, from Old French grain, grein, from Latin grānum (“seed”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain”). Doublet of corn, gram, granum, and grao.
词源 2
From Middle English grayn, from Old Norse grein (“bough, branch”), from Proto-Germanic *grainiz (“branch, twig, ramification”), of unknown origin. Related to English grove (“thicket”).
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