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ENGRAIN

Definitions: ENGRAIN

ENGRAIN

Transitive verb

1. To color in imitation of the grain of wood; to grain. See Grain, v. t., 1.

2. To incorporate with the grain or texture of anything; to infuse deeply. See Ingrain.

3. To dye in grain, or of a fast color. See Ingrain.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Engrain \En*grain"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Engrained; present participle verb or noun Engraining.]. (Websters 1913)



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Crosswords: ENGRAIN

English words defined with "ENGRAIN": Engrained, Engraining. (references)

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Modern Translations: ENGRAIN

Language Translations for "ENGRAIN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

përforcoj (add, aggrandize, confirm, establish, exalt, extend, follow up, fortify, gain a foothold, grow strong, grow stronger, increase, redouble, re-enforce, reinforce, strengthen, strut, truss, underpin), ngjyros (color, colour, dye, embroider, tinge), fut (accept, cram into, drive, drive in, embed, enter, establish, foot, hide, insert, intercalate, interpolate, introduce, launch, let in, mix in, move in, number, plunge, poke, pour into, put, put in the picture, put smb. wise to smth., set, speak, stick into, stock up, stuff, submerge, take on, thrust, tuck, usher in), fus (accept for, Bury, cram into, drive, embroil, enclose, enter, get in, inclose, interpolate, introduce, launch, mix in, pack, plunge, poke, pour into, press in, put, put in the picture, set, shove, speak, stick into, stock up, stuff, work in). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

насаждам дълбоко, боядисвам (color, colour, decorate, dip, paint, wash). (various references)

   

Czech

  

žilkovat. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

bevés (engrave, etch, incise, ingrain, inscribe, to engrain, to engrave, to etch, to grave, to incise, to ingrain). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

meresapkan. (various references)

   

Italian

  

includere (comprehend, comprise, embody, enclose, inclose, include, incorporate), imprimere (be impressed, engrave, give, impart, impress, imprint, incuse, print, stamp). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

engrainay

   

Portuguese

  

tingir (bepaint, dye, imitate, stain, tint), inculcar (inculcate), gravar (carve, character, chase, chip, chisel, cut, enchase, engrave, grave, impress, imprint, incision, infix, ingraft, inscribe, print, record, score, scrimshaw, stamp), dentear (Dent, indent, jagg). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

impregna (imbue, permeate, process), colora intens, întipãri (enface, engraft, grave, stamp). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

красить кошенилью, красить в пряже, внедрять (embed, enroot, imbed, implant, impregnate, inculcate, intrude, plant, root). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

radicarse. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

içine işletmek (ingrain), ham iken boyamak (ingrain), boyamak (color, color-wash, colour, decorate, dye, imbrue, paint, polish, stain, wash). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

впроваджувати (root). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: ENGRAIN

LanguagePeriodTranslations
French1500-Modern

graine. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: ENGRAIN

Derivations

Words beginning with "ENGRAIN": engrained, engraining, engrains. (additional references)


Misspellings

"ENGRAIN" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Elgaren, endgrain, Engadin, Engai, engoran, Engrais, Engria, Fengtai, negreni, negroni, Penygraig. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: ENGRAIN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: aginner, earning, grannie, nearing.

Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-n-n-r"

-1 letter: earing, gainer, ginner, inaner, narine, reagin, regain, regina.

-2 letters: anger, garni, grain, inane, inner, range, regna, reign, renig, renin.

-3 letters: ager, agin, airn, earn, gaen, gain, gane, gear, gien, girn, gnar, gran, grin, near, nine, rage, ragi, rain, rang, rani, rein, ring.

-4 letters: age, ain, air, ane, ani, are, ear, eng, era, erg, ern, gae, gan, gar, gen, gie, gin, inn, ire, nae, nag, nan, rag, ran, reg, rei, ria, rig, rin.

-5 letters: ae, ag, ai, an, ar, en, er, in, na, ne, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-n-n-r"
 

+1 letter: aginners, anearing, angering, arginine, earnings, engrains, enraging, grannies, learning, ravening, recaning, renaming, yearning.

 

+2 letters: angriness, answering, argentine, arginines, bannering, bantering, brazening, cankering, cantering, careening, caverning, cravening, dandering, dangering, darkening, deranging, enamoring, endearing, enframing, engrained, engraving, enlarging, ensnaring, gandering, gannister, gardening, garnering, grenadine, hankering, hardening, harkening, ignorance, ingrained, integrand, intergang, learnings, nattering, omnirange, organzine, pandering, parenting, ranginess, rattening, ravenings, reasoning, recanting, reearning, regaining, rehanging, reloaning, remaining, remanding, remanning, renailing, retaining, tangerine, unbearing, wandering, yearnings.

 

+3 letters: androgenic, argentines, astringent, bartending, begroaning, blarneying, brigandine, brigantine, broadening, carcinogen, chagrinned, coarsening, daringness, daundering, denaturing, deraigning, detraining, enamouring, enervating, engrafting, engrailing, engraining, engravings, ensnarling, entraining, entrancing, entrapping, entreating, enwrapping, estranging, fingernail, frangipane, gangrening, gannisters, garmenting, generating, generation, gingersnap, graininess, grandniece, greatening, grenadines, gynandries, hardenings, harnessing, harshening, hearkening, heartening, herniating, hoarsening, ignorances, impregnant, increasing, inearthing, integrands, interabang, interorgan, interregna, intragenic, intreating, laundering, margenting, maundering, meandering, nonbearing, nonearning, nonreading, numerating, omniranges, organzines, outearning, parentings, partnering, patterning, pertaining, prewarning, preweaning, readorning, realigning, reannexing, reasonings, rechanging, recleaning, reenacting, reengaging, refraining, regnancies, regranting, rehandling, reinvading, relearning, renaturing, renegading, renovating, repainting, repaneling, replanning, replanting, resinating, resonating, retraining, rewakening, sanderling, sauntering, serenading, sharpening, slandering, smartening, tangerines, transgenic, trepanning, uncreating, unearthing, ungainlier, unlearning, unraveling, unswearing, untreading, unwavering, venerating, wanderings, yearningly.

 

+4 letters: adventuring, alternating, anagnorises, ancestoring, androgynies, angrinesses, anteverting, antiforeign, arraignment, astringency, astringents, banteringly, baserunning, bedarkening, brigandines, brigantines, calendaring, calendering, carcinogens, carrageenin, centimorgan, chaperoning, coenamoring, darlingness, denervating, denigrating, denigration, embrangling, encouraging, encroaching, endangering, endearingly, endeavoring, enrapturing, enravishing, enthralling, enumerating, enwreathing, exonerating, fingernails, firefanging, forewarning, fragmenting, frangipanes, freelancing, garnishment, generations, germanizing, germinating, germination, gingersnaps, glaringness, grandnieces, gratineeing, handwringer, hibernating, impregnants, inbreathing, inebriating, infrangible, ingathering, ingrainedly, innervating, integrating, integration, interabangs, interacting, interagency, interchange, interfacing, interlacing, interlaying, interrobang, itinerating, lavendering, legionnaire, linearising, linearizing, malingering, maneuvering, manoeuvring, merchanting, mislearning, nitrogenase, nonallergic, nonearnings, nonintegral, orientating, ornamenting, outlearning, overhanding, overhanging, overmanning, patternings, penetrating, perennating, personating, precleaning, preenacting, prefranking, pregnancies, preplanning, preplanting, pretraining, promenading, ranginesses, reaccenting, realignment, reanalyzing, reanimating, reanointing, rearranging, reascending, reassigning, reattaining, reawakening, rebalancing, rebranching, redemanding, reengraving, reexamining, refastening, refinancing, rehardening, reimagining, reinflating, reinstating, relaunching, reobtaining, reordaining, repanelling, reseasoning, resignation, restraining, ropedancing, sanderlings, squandering, straitening, strangering, terminating, threatening, tragedienne, transecting, trapnesting, underacting, undereating, underlaying, underpaying, underrating, undertaking, undertaxing, unendearing, unfaltering, ungarnished, unignorable, unorganized, unravelling, unreasoning, unrewarding, unthreading, unwreathing, vernalizing.

 

+5 letters: androgenesis, androgenetic, anorexigenic, antiestrogen, antireligion, appertaining, apprehending, apprenticing, arraignments, ascertaining, astringently, baserunnings, benchmarking, boomeranging, breadwinning, buccaneering, carcinogenic, carpentering, carrageenins, centimorgans, centralising, centralizing, cocarcinogen, cogeneration, congregating, congregation, consecrating, contravening, copartnering, daringnesses, degenerating, degeneration, denigrations, deracinating, emargination, endeavouring, energization, engarlanding, entertaining, entreatingly, eternalizing, exenterating, fraternizing, freestanding, garnisheeing, garnishments, generalising, generalizing, generational, germinations, graininesses, graspingness, grecianizing, greenmailing, guaranteeing, handwringers, harbingering, heartburning, hearteningly, heartrending, ignorantness, impregnating, impregnation, incinerating, increasingly, ingatherings, integrations, intenerating, interchanged, interchanger, interchanges, interfacings, intergrading, interlapping, interlarding, interleaving, interplaying, interrobangs, interspacing, interweaving, intransigent, keratinizing, kindergarten, legionnaires, menstruating, mineralising, mineralizing, neutralising, neutralizing, newspapering, nitrogenases, nonagenarian, nonbreathing, nonirrigated, nonoperating, nonstrategic, octogenarian, overcleaning, overhandling, overlearning, overmanaging, overplanning, overplanting, oversanguine, overtraining, paperhanging, philandering, prearranging, preassigning, precanceling, prefinancing, premalignant, preordaining, realignments, reappointing, reassignment, recanalizing, rechanneling, recognizance, recontacting, refashioning, regenerating, regeneration, rehumanizing, reimplanting, reinhabiting, reinitiating, reinstalling, rejuvenating, remaindering, remunerating, renominating, reorganizing, repatterning, reprimanding, repugnancies, resignations, ropedancings, sandpapering, sexagenarian, sloganeering, streamlining, tabernacling, tragediennes, transcending, transfecting, transferring, undercoating, underlapping, underplaying, understating, undertakings, undervaluing, unflattering, ungerminated, unharnessing, unintegrated, unwaveringly, urinogenital, warmongering.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ENGRAIN


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 4E 47 52 41 49 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01001110 01000111 01010010 01000001 01001001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#78 &#71 &#82 &#65 &#73 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 004E 0047 0052 0041 0049 004E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

39484152354348

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Translations: Ancient
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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