Word Finder - grain

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

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We stored a thousand tons of grain for the winter.

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Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.

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A single seed of grass food crops.

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a grain of wheat

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The crops from which grain is harvested.

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The fields were planted with grain.

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A linear texture of a material or surface.

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Cut along the grain of the wood.

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A single particle of a substance.

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a grain of salt

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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 carat or 50 milligrams. The old French grain was 1/9216 livre or 53.11 milligrams, and in the mesures usuelles permitted from 1812 to 1839, with the livre redefined as 500 grams, it was 54.25 milligrams.

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A former unit of gold purity, also known as carat grain, equal to 1/4 "carat" (karat).

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(materials) A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.

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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.

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The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.

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(in the plural) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called draff.

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A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock.

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Temper; natural disposition; inclination.

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(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 enough photons.

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To feed grain to.

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To make granular; to form into grains.

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To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.

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To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.

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(tanning) To remove the hair or fat from a skin.

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(tanning) To soften leather.

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To yield fruit.

He always eats the grain I leave for him.

Then she used wild and long grain rice instead of stuffing.

He sowed grain and baked bread.

Sometimes when you look at a grain of sand in your hand, you forget that there couldn't be a beach without every one of them.

In 58 BC, Clodius Pulcher ran on a "free grain for the poor" platform as he tried to become tribune.

She scooped some grain up and fed them too.

Deposit, especially warehousing of grain, was charged for at one-sixtieth.

Beetroot, molasses and grain are the chief sources of spirit.

There is a large weekly market for grain, and annual horse and cattle fairs.

Comparatively little grain is now produced, whereas under the republic Sardinia was one of the chief granaries of Rome.

Tecuci has a large transit trade in grain, timber, cattle and horses, on their way from northern and eastern Moldavia to the Danubian ports.

Though much land previously devoted to grain culture has been planted with vines, the area under wheat, barley, beans and maize is still considerable.

During the period 1958 to 1961, an initiative called "The Great Leap Forward" was intended to increase the production of grain and other agricultural products.

The imports consist principally of coal, salt, grain and flour, groceries, textiles, wood, and mineral oils.

The chief grain crops are oats, rye and wheat, and the cultivation of potatoes is general.

The soil is not very productive, although agriculture flourishes in the valleys and on the level ground; grain has to be imported to meet the demand.

I am giving you everything, my friends, and I beg you to take everything, all our grain, so that you may not suffer want!

Reaching through the slot, she poured the cow some grain.

Schweidnitz is the chief grain market of the district.

Organizing it like this would be easy, because it would be working with the grain of the encyclopedia itself, and usually, for instance, the county that any British or Irish town is in is listed very early in the article.

The means of subsistence are mainly provided by the cultivation of grain and cattle-rearing.

A very considerable trade is carried on at Parma in grain, cattle and the dairy produce of the district.

The ant was carrying a grain of wheat as large as itself.

It is one of the principal grain and flour markets in the world.

There is always enough grain within the boundaries of India for the needs of the people; the only difficulty is to transport it to the tract where it is required at a particular moment.

The principal commerce is in fish and grain.

The Grain coast, that part of the Guinea coast extending for Soo m.

Carmen gave the horses some grain and went to feed and water the chickens.

In April and May the rivers have opened, the snow has disappeared, and the opportunity has been afforded the farmer of sowing his grain.

The territories of the Gran Chaco, however, are covered with a characteristic tropical vegetation, in which the palm predominates, but intermingled south of the Bermejo with heavy growths of algarrobo, quebracho-colorado, urunday (Astronium fraxinifolium), lapacho (Tecoma curialis) and palosanto (Guayacum officinalis), all esteemed for hardness and fineness of grain.

The male gametophyte is represented by one or few cells and, except in a few primitive forms where the male cell still retains the motile character as in the Pteridophyta, is carried passively to the macrospore in a development of the pollen grain, the pollen tube.

The ANGIOSFERMS, which are much the larger class, derive their name from the fact that the carpel or carpels form a closed chamber, the ovary, in which the ovules are developedassociated with this is the development of a receptive or stigmatic surface on which the pollen grain is deposited.

The soil, mainly alluvial, is naturally very fertile, and wherever cultivated yields abundant crops, durra being the principal grain grown.

The river is navigable for 770 m.; grain and a variety of goods conveyed from the upper Kama are floated down, while furs, fish and other products of the sea are shipped up the river to be transported to Cherdyn on the Kama.

But a long course of continuous cropping with these grain crops, without affording compensation to the soil in the form of manure or deep cultivation, has so ex.

The principal types to be found in the United Kingdom and on the continent of Europe are open wagons (the lading often protected from the weather by tarpaulin sheets), mineral wagons, covered or box wagons for cotton, grain, &c., sheep and cattle trucks, &c. The principal types of American freight cars are box cars, gondola cars, coal cars, stock cars, tank cars and refrigerator cars, with, as in other countries, various special cars for special purposes.

With regard to the nutritive value of oatmeal, as compared with that of wheat flour, it contains a higher percentage of albuminoids than any other grain, viz.

The place has an active trade, especially in grain and in the timber floated down from the Black Forest by the Rhine and the Ysel; the industries include tanning, weaving, and oil and paper manufactures.

Grain is shipped to and from Jersey City in large quantities, and in general the city is an important shipping port; being included, however, in the port of New York, no separate statistics are available.

Imports are coal, textiles, salt, grain and flour.

Next comes English grain tin.

After she fed the rabbits, she came back to find the horses had finished their grain.

Beetroot for sugar, grain and fruit are also grown.

The valleys afford rich pastures, and the plains produce every species of grain.

There is a trade in beer, cattle and grain, sold at eleven annual fairs, three of which last for ten days each.

Pardubitz has a tolerably active trade in grain and timber, and the horse-fairs attract numerous customers.

Many districts are fertile, but some, particularly those in the south-eastern part of the province, do not produce sufficient grain for the requirements of the sparse population.

Besides the use of the straw when cut up and mixed with other food for fodder, the oat grain constitutes an important food for both man and beast.

The oat grain (excepting the naked oat), like that of barley, is closely invested by the husk.

Oatmeal is made from the kiln-dried grain from which the husks have been removed; and the form of the food is the well-known "porridge."