Meaning

(uncountable) The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
2. (uncountable) Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
3. (countable) A single seed of grass food crops.
4. (countable, uncountable) The crops from which grain is harvested.
5. (uncountable) A linear texture of a material or surface.
6. (countable) A single particle of a substance.
7. (countable) Any of various small units of mass originally notionally based on grain's weight, variously standardized at different places and times, including
8. (countable, chiefly historical) Any of various small units of length originally notionally based on a grain's width, variously standardized at different places and times.

Example Sentences

We stored a thousand tons of grain for the winter.

a grain of wheat

grains of oat

The fields were planted with grain.

A grain, which in England is generally given to horſes, but which in Scotland ſupports the people.

Cut along the grain of the wood.

He doesn't like to shave against the grain.

a grain of sand

Word Forms

• grains
• graining
• grained
• grane

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Use grain when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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