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Definition: Grain |
GrainNoun1. A small hard particle; "a grain of sand". 2. Cereal grain suitable as food for human beings. 3. Used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat. 4. 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams. 5. 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams. 6. Dry seedlike fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn. 7. The direction or texture of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric: "saw the board across the grain". Verb1. Thoroughly work in; "His hands were grained with dirt". 2. Paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood. 3. Form into grains. 4. Become granular. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "grain" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Computing | GRAIN A pictorial query language. ["Pictorial Information Systems", S.K. Chang et al eds, Springer 1980]. (1995-01-23) grain granularity. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Aerospace | 1. An elongated molding or extrusion of solid propellant for a rocket, regardless of size. 2. In photography, a small particle of metallic silver remaining in a photographic emulsion after development and fixing. In the agglomerate, these grains form the dark area of a photographic image.3. An individual crystal in a polycrystalline metal or alloy. (references) |
Bible | Grain used, in Amos 9:9, of a small stone or kernel; in Matt. 13:31, of an individual seed of mustard; in John 12:24, 1 Cor. 15:37, of wheat. The Hebrews sowed only wheat, barley, and spelt; rye and oats are not mentioned in Scripture. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Chemical Industry | A single piece of powder charge, regardless of size or shape, in a rocket. Source: European Union. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | Grain is a most fortunate dream, betokening wealth and happiness. For a young woman, it is a dream of fortune. She will meet wealthy and adoring companions. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Electrical Engineering | The particle size of the phosphor coating on the interior surface of the CRT. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | A term used essentially to describe the general direction of the longitudinal, i. e. axial, wood elements in the tree relative to the growth axis, e. g. spiral grain; in the work-piece, relative to any surface exposed by working, e. g. side grain. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A descriptive term applied to the alignment of cells and tissue. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Geography | In the plane perpendicular to the rift along which the rock splits, but with more difficulty than along the rift. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Grain A knave in grain. A knave, though a rich man, or magnate. Grain means scarlet (Latin, granum, the coccus, or scarlet dye). "A military vest of purple flowed Livelier than Melibean [Thessalian], or the Grain Of Sarra [Tyre] worn by kings and heroes old In time of truce." Paradise Lost, xi. 241-244. Rogue in grain. A punning application of the above phrase to millers. To go against the grain. Against one's inclination. The allusion is to wood, which cannot be easily planed the wrong way of the grain. With a grain of salt. Latin, "Cum grano salis, " with great reservation. The French phrase has another meaning - thus, "It le mangcrait avec un grain de sel " means, he could double up such a little whipper-snapper as easily as one could swallow a grain of salt. In the Latin phrase cum does not mean "with" on "together with," but it adverbialises the noun, as cum fide, faithfully, cum silentio, silently, cum lætitia, joyfully, cum grano, minutely ("cum grano salis, " in the minute manner that one takes salt). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Metallurgy | Uneven relief-type pattern on a coated surface. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A mineral or rock particle having a diameter of less than a few millimeters and generally lacking well-developed crystal faces; e.g., a sand grain. Also, a general term for sedimentary particles of all sizes (from clay to boulders), as used in the expressions grain size, fine-grained, and coarse-grained b. A quarrymen's term for a plane of parting in slate that is perpendicular to the flow cleavage; or for a direction of parting in massive rock, e.g., granite, that is less pronounced than the rift and usually at right angles to it. CF:rift c. The second direction of easy splitting of a rock, less pronounced than the rift, but more so than the hardway. d. A unit of hardness of water, expressed in terms of equivalent CaCO (sub 3) . A hardness of 1 grain per U.S. gal (17.1 mg/L) equals 17.1 ppm byweight as CaCO3 . See also:anthracite fines e.g., a sand grain. Also, a general term for sedimentary particles of all sizes (from clay to boulders), as used in the expressions grain size, fine-grained, and coarse-grained. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Cereal crops are mostly grasses cultivated for their edible seeds (actually a fruit called a grain). Cereal grains are grown in greater quantities worldwide than any other type of crop and provide more calories to the human race. In some developing nations, cereal grains constitute practically the entire diet of common folk. In developed nations, cereal consumption is more moderate but still substantial. The word cereal has its origin in the goddess of grain, Ceres. Staple food grains are often called corn.
Cereal crops
True cereals
The cereal crops are (in approximate order of greatest annual production):
- wheat, the primary cereal of temperate regions
- rice, the primary cereal of tropical regions
- maize, a staple food of peoples in North America, South America, and Africa and of livestock worldwide
- the millets, a group of similar but distinct cereals that form an important staple food in Asia and Africa.
- sorghum, important staple food in Asia and Africa and popular worldwide for livestock
- rye and triticale, important in cold climates
- oats, formerly the staple food of Scotland and popular worldwide for livestock
- barley, grown for malting and livestock on land too poor for wheat
- teff, popular in Ethiopia but scarcely known elsewhere
- wild rice, grown in small amounts in the USA
- spelt, a close relative of wheat
Pseudocereals
In addition, several non-grasses are grown for their seeds. These pseudocereals include (in no particular order):
- buckwheat
- amaranth
- quinoa
Cultivation
While each individual species has its own peculiarities, the cultivation of all cereals crops is similar. All are annual plants; consequently one planting yields one harvest. Wheat, rye, triticale, oats, barley, and spelt are the cool-season cereals. These are hardy plants that grow well in moderate weather and cease to grow in hot weather (approximately 30° but this varies by species and variety). The other warm-season cereals are tender and prefer hot weather.
Cool-season cereals are well-adapted to temperate climates. Most varieties of a particular species are either winter or spring types. Winter varities are sown in the autumn, germinate and grow vegetatively, then become dormant during winter. They resume growing in the springtime and mature in late spring or early summer. This cultivation system makes optimal use of water and frees the land for another crop early in the growing season. Winter varieties do not flower until springtime because they require vernalization. Where winters are too warm for vernalization or exceed the hardiness of the crop (which varies by species and variety), farmers grow spring varieties. Spring cereals are planted in early springtime and mature later that same summer, without vernalization. Spring cereals typically require more irrigation and yield less than winter cereals.
Rye is the hardiest cereal, able to overwinter in the subarctic and Siberia. Wheat is the most popular. All cool-season cereals are grown in the tropics, but only in the cool highlands, where it may be possible to grow multiple crops in a year.
The warm-season cereals are grown in tropical lowlands year-round and in temperate climates during the frost-free season.
Food value
Cereal grains supply most of their calories as starch. They are also a significant source of protein, though the amino acid balance is not optimal. Whole grains (see below) are good sources of dietary fiber, essential fatty acids, and other important nutrients.
Rice is eaten as cooked entire grains, although rice flour is also produced. Oats are rolled, ground, or cut into bits (steel-cut oats) and cooked into porridge. Most other cereals are ground into flour or meal, that is milled. The outer layers of bran and germ are removed (see grain (fruit) and seed). This lessens the nutritional value but makes the grain more appealing to many palates. Health-conscious people tend to prefer whole grains, which are not milled. Overconsumption of milled cereals is sometimes blamed for obesity. Milled grains do keep better because the outer layers of the grains are rich in rancidity-prone fats. The waste from milling is sometimes mixed into a prepared animal feed.
Once (optionally) milled and ground, the resulting flour is made into bread, pasta, desserts, dumplings, and many other products. Besides cereals, flour is sometimes made from potatoes and chestnuts.
In American English, cold breakfast cereals and porridge are called simply cereal.
See also: Zadok scale
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The word grain has a great many meanings, most being descriptive of a small piece or particle. For examples:In BOTANY, a grain is a type of simple dry fruit, one that is moncarpelate (formed from a single carpel) and indehiscent (not opening at maturity) and resembles an achene, except that in a grain the pericarp is fused with the thin seed coat. Examples of grains are wheat, rice, and corn — the fruit of these and other grasses (Family Poaceae) are grains. The "hulls" to be separated from many grains before processing are flower bracts.
- a grain of sand or salt; see grain size for granule
- in materials science (especially metallurgy), it is a single crystal inside solid-state matter, also refered to as crystallite
- a very small unit of weight called a grain
- the fineness of resolution for photographic film (i.e., graininess of a picture)
- wood-grain, and as a description of personality or style from wood-working (i.e. going against the grain)
- also granule, from the diminutive of Latin granum, meaning "grain".
The term grain is also used in a more general sense as synonymous with cereal or cereal grains. Considering that the fruit wall and the seed are intimately fused into a single unit, and the grain is a dry fruit, it is not surprising that in general usage little concern is given to technically separating the terms "fruit" and "seed" in these fruits.
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A grain is a unit of mass equal to 0.06479891 gram, in both the avoirdupois and troy weight systems. An avoirdupois pound is 7000 grains, whereas a troy pound is 5760 grains.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Grain (measure)."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
True grasses (image here) Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Liliopsida Order: Poales Family: Poaceae Genera
- Poa- Bluegrass
- List of Poaceae genera
The true grasses are monocot (Liliopsida) plants of the family Poaceae (formerly Gramineae). The family includes lawn and forage grasses, bamboo, wheat, rice, rye, corn, sugarcane, and numerous other species of considerable ecological and economic importance. Agricultural grasses grown for food production are called cereals.
Grasses are generally characterized by the following:
Cereals are the major source of calories for humans, including rice in India and the Far East, maize in Mexico, and wheat and barley in Europe and North America. Staple food grains are often called corn.
- Hollow stems (called culms), plugged at intervals by nodes.
- Leaves, arising at nodes, are alternate, distichous (in one plane) or rarely spiral.
- Leaves are differentiated into a sheath hugging the stem for a short distance and a blade with margin usually entire; a ligule (a membranous appendage or ring of hairs) lies on top at the junction between sheath and blade.
- Flowers are small, without petals, borne clustered in an inflorescence, often a spike or tassel, and wind-pollinated.
See also: Sugarcane, Marram grass, Bluegrass
External Link
- Grass family
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
GRAIN | English | Genetic Resources Action International | Public Administration, Food & Agriculture |
| gr | English | Grain | Computing |
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Synonyms: GrainSynonyms: caryopsis (n), cereal (n), food grain (n), metric grain (n), granulate (v), ingrain (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Affections | Noun: affections, affect; character, qualities, disposition, nature, spirit, tone; temper, temperament; diathesis, idiosyncrasy; cast of mind, cast of soul, habit of mind, habit of soul, frame of mind, frame of soul; predilection, turn, natural turn of mind; bent, bias, predisposition, proneness, proclivity, propensity, propenseness, propension, propendency; vein, humor, mood, grain, mettle; sympathy; (love). |
Gravity | Weighing, ponderation, trutination; weights; avoirdupois weight, troy weight, apothecaries' weight; grain, scruple, drachma, ounce, pound, lb, arroba, load, stone, hundredweight, cwt, ton, long ton, metric ton, quintal, carat, pennyweight, tod. |
Intrinsicality | Habit; temper, temperament; spirit, humor, grain; disposition. |
Ornament | Smarten, furbish, polish, gild, varnish, whitewash, enamel, japan, lacquer, paint, grain. |
Pulverulence | Powder, dust, sand, shingle; sawdust; grit; meal, bran, flour, farina, rice, paddy, spore, sporule; crumb, seed, grain; particle. (smallness); limature, filings, debris, detritus, tailings, talus slope, scobs, magistery, fine powder; flocculi. |
Roughness | Noun: roughness; Adjective: tooth, grain, texture, ripple; asperity, rugosity, salebrosity, corrugation, nodosity; arborescence; pilosity. |
Smallness | Small quan modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive; snip, snippet; snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair. |
Tendency | Noun: tendency; aptness, proneness, proclivity, bent, turn, tone, bias, set, leaning to, predisposition, inclination, propensity, susceptibility; conatus, nisus; liability; quality, nature, temperament; idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy; cast, vein, grain; humor, mood; drift; (direction); conduciveness, conducement; applicability; (utility); subservience; (instrumentality). |
Texture | Texture, surface texture; intertexture, contexture; tissue, grain, web, surface; warp and woof, warp and weft; tooth, nap. (roughness); flatness (smoothness); fineness of grain; coarseness of grain, dry goods. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | This is grain, which any fool can eat, but for which the Lord intended a more divine means of consumption (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves; writing credit: Pen Densham and John Watson.) A single grain of rice can tip the scale; one man may be the differance between victory and defeat (Mulan; writing credit: Robert D. San Souci; Rita Hsiao) Every time you pick up a grain of sand you hold a universe in the palm of your hand (Seven Faces of Dr. Lao; writing credit: Charles G. Finney; Charles Beaumont) Honestly, Boon, you're twenty-one years old. In six months you're going to graduate, and tomorrow night you're going to wrap yourself in a bed sheet and pour grain alcohol all over your head (Animal House; writing credit: Harold Ramis; Douglas Kenney) It's converted to use a special forty-five caliber, hundred and ten grain metal cartridge, with a five-hundred forty grain paper patch bullet (Quigley Down Under; writing credit: John Hill) | |
Lyrics | Morning fields of amber grain (Vincent; performing artist: Don McLean) It's funny how one insect can damage so much grain (Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny); performing artist: Elton John) It's a hood thing, wood grain, off the chain (Hey Papi; performing artist: Jay-Z) You can touch it in a grain of sand (God Gave My Everything; performing artist: Mick Jagger) Go against the grain and we convert to the worst (Can't Nobody; performing artist: Nate Dogg) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Le Grain de sel (1963) Cash Advances for Prairie Grain (1961) A Handful of Grain (1959) Grain Handling in Canada (1955) | |
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 | From an overhead angle, a blue bowl of cereal and a sandwich on a plate, sitting on a yellow tablecloth, are shown in opposite corners of the frame. A broken muffin lies between them in the center. The red lettering in the upper left reads: "Eat 3-5 generous servings of whole grain breads and cereals every day". Shot on 4x5 format. This was used in the 1989 calendar "Eat for Good Health" May 1989. See artwork: PV-19. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |  | A typed manuscript lies open on a purple tablecloth. Various types of grain, either loose or in a bowl and a ladle, are on top. There is also a basket with a round loaf of brown bread cut in half. See also AV-3906. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | Treating grain with treater apparatus. 1944. Credit: USDA. |  | Cleaning grain. 1908. Credit: USDA. |
 | Damaged grain bins and sand-covered cropland caused by a Missouri River flood. Credit: Charlie Rahm. |  | Herb Webb (left), NRCS Resource Conservationist, Flathead Indian Reservation Tribal Complex, Pablo, MT, and Joel Clairmont, tribal member, local extension agent, grain, hay, and cattle producer, discuss the quality of alfalfa he is about to bale. Clairmon. Credit: Bob Nichols. |
 | Grain dryer.grain dryergrain dryer. Credit: USDA. |  | Loading grain barges on Mississippi River. Credit: USDA. |
 | Agricultural engineer Kenneth Sudduth examines a sample of grain collected from this combine's grain flow sensor. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Bruce Fritz.. |  | Field technician Emilio Chavez drives a tractor-drawn stalk puller that uproots plants after harvest. This prevents regrowth, water loss, and overwintering of pests in cotton and grain sorghum fields. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Jack Dykinga.. |
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| "Weathered wood grain" by Justin Wilder Commentary: "Crosscut of a tree stump." | "Grain Silo" by Luke Partridge Commentary: "18mm wide angle lens." |
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 | Sanding; scratch; smooth; grain; grainy; finish; rub; . |
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Henri Frederic Amiel | Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more. |
Hitopadesa | A store of grain, Oh king is the best of treasures. A gem put in your mouth will not support life. |
Hosea Ballou | Energy, like the Biblical grain of mustard seed will remove mountains. |
John Milton | Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train. |
Robert Green Ingersoll | The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not. |
W. R. Alger | We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain. |
William Blake | To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour. |
William Stoughton | God hath sifted a nation that he might send coice grain into this wilderness. |
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Three Voices | Carroll, Lewis | While, like broad waves of golden grain, Or sunlit hues on cloistered pane, His colour came and went again |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He had recipes for clearing a field of rust, of vetches, of moles, of doggrass, and all the parasitic herbs which live upon the grain. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | There were melon patches and grain fields |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I did not know whether they had come to sow a crop of winter rye, or some other kind of grain recently introduced from Iceland |
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Health | Whole grain breads and cereals, beans, fruits, and vegetables are good sources of fiber. (references) | |
The old joke about a patient being awakened by a nurse so he could take a sleeping pill contains a grain of truth. (references) | ||
Foods with a high fiber content include whole grain cereals and breads, fruits, vegetables, and legumes (dried peas and beans). (references) | ||
Business | Additionally, a lot of grain is also lost to the common practice of sun drying. (references) | |
China used this equipment to handle and move coal, grain, fertilizers, and hazardous chemicals. (references) | ||
Food processors and grain companies experience rising pressure to segregate GM from non-GM products. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Cameroon | Tor had complained to the Sub-Prefect that most of a government emergency shipment of grain sent to the north in April had been stolen by local and traditional authorities. (references) |
Economic History | Jordan | It is a medium grain rice market. (references) |
Jordan | Jordan produces only 10% of its overall grain needs. (references) | |
Human Rights | Guinea | According to the OGDH, the N'Zerekore prison is a converted grain warehouse built in 1932 for 70 prisoners, but it houses 120. There is no electricity or running water. (references) |
Political Economy | NIGERIA | Immediately after lifting its longtime ban on corn imports, the Government of Nigeria placed a 70 percent duty on this grain. (references) |
Afghanistan | The country's grain production fell by about 50 percent in the past 2 years and met less than half of the country's requirements. (references) | |
Trade | Lithuania | Lithuania licenses imports of sugar, grain, alcohol and arms. (references) |
Philippines | Private grain dealers may import premium or fancy rice only with an Import Clearance issued by the NFA. (references) | |
Poland | Several common weed seeds have quarantine status which hampers U.S. grain and oilseed exports to Poland. (references) | |
Travel | Chad | Previous projects have improved the road links to the grain producing Salamat region and the central Guera region. (references) |
Worker Rights | Niger | The majority of rural children regularly worked with their families from a very early age--helping in the fields, pounding grain, tending animals, getting firewood and water, and other similar tasks. (references) |
Yemen | In May employees at the General Corporation for Foreign Trade and Grain in Sana'a held a 1-day strike to protest the plan to transfer the building in which they worked to the Ministry of Higher Education; the Government agreed to seek another building for the Ministry. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TRIAL, n. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors. In order to effect this purpose it is necessary to supply a contrast in the person of one who is called the defendant, the prisoner, or the accused. If the contrast is made sufficiently clear this person is made to undergo such an affliction as will give the virtuous gentlemen a comfortable sense of their immunity, added to that of their worth. In our day the accused is usually a human being, or a socialist, but in mediaeval times, animals, fishes, reptiles and insects were brought to trial. A beast that had taken human life, or practiced sorcery, was duly arrested, tried and, if condemned, put to death by the public executioner. Insects ravaging grain fields, orchards or vineyards were cited to appeal by counsel before a civil tribunal, and after testimony, argument and condemnation, if they continued in contumaciam the matter was taken to a high ecclesiastical court, where they were solemnly excommunicated and anathematized. In a street of Toledo, some pigs that had wickedly run between the viceroy's legs, upsetting him, were arrested on a warrant, tried and punished. In Naples and ass was condemned to be burned at the stake, but the sentence appears not to have been executed. D'Addosio relates from the court records many trials of pigs, bulls, horses, cocks, dogs, goats, etc., greatly, it is believed, to the betterment of their conduct and morals. In 1451 a suit was brought against the leeches infesting some ponds about Berne, and the Bishop of Lausanne, instructed by the faculty of Heidelberg University, directed that some of "the aquatic worms" be brought before the local magistracy. This was done and the leeches, both present and absent, were ordered to leave the places that they had infested within three days on pain of incurring "the malediction of God." In the voluminous records of this cause celebre nothing is found to show whether the offenders braved the punishment, or departed forthwith out of that inhospitable jurisdiction. |
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Andrew Weil | You eat lots of fruits and vegetables, you include some of the good carbohydrates, which are things like beans and some sweet potatoes or winter squashes in moderation, even some whole grains like wild rice or barley in whole grain form. |
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Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Grain prices were at their lowest levels in years and steadily falling. |
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| "Grain" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.72% of the time. "Grain" is used about 1,805 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.72% | 1,800 | 4,700 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.28% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,805 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "grain" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Grain | Last name | 100 | 72,447 |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "grain". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| So | N/A | Biblical | A measure for grain |
| Telabib | N/A | Biblical | A heap of new grain |
| Gráinne | Female | Irish | A grain |
| Grania | Female | Irish | A grain |
| Gráinne | Female | Irish Mythology | A grain |
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Canada | United Grain Growers Limited | Sri Lanka | Ceylon Grain Elevators Limited |
| USA | Midwest Grain Products, Inc. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "grain": A grain of allowance ♦ across the grain ♦ ad against the grain ♦ Against the grain ♦ along the grain ♦ alternating spiral grain ♦ angoumois grain moth ♦ ASTM comparative method of designating grain size ♦ clipped grain ♦ coarse grain ♦ coarseness of grain ♦ compression perpendicular to the grain ♦ critical grain growth ♦ crotch grain ♦ cultivation of grain ♦ curly grain ♦ drawn grain ♦ dyed in grain ♦ feed grain ♦ Felt grain ♦ fine grain ♦ fine grain radar ♦ fodder grain ♦ food grain ♦ fuzzy grain ♦ gain grain ♦ germ of the wheat grain ♦ go against the grain ♦ grain alcohol ♦ Grain binder ♦ Grain colors ♦ grain crop ♦ grain elevator ♦ grain field ♦ grain forel ♦ grain forril ♦ grain itch ♦ Grain leather ♦ grain merchant ♦ grain moth ♦ grain of dust ♦ grain of gold ♦ grain of paradise ♦ grain of salt ♦ grain of sand ♦ grain of the wood ♦ grain of wood ♦ grain oil ♦ grain production ♦ grain reserves ♦ Grain side ♦ grain size ♦ grain sorghum ♦ grain sorghum(including dari or doura ♦ grain tin ♦ grain to sow ♦ Grain Valley ♦ Grain weevil ♦ Grain worm ♦ growing grain ♦ hard grain goat ♦ horse grain ♦ hulled grain ♦ in grain ♦ in the grain ♦ in the grain direction ♦ interlocked grain ♦ interlocking grain ♦ interwoven grain ♦ it goes against the grain for me ♦ it goes against the grain with me ♦ large grain powder ♦ loosened grain ♦ metric grain ♦ of fine grain ♦ oily grain ♦ pollen grain ♦ propellant grain ♦ raised grain ♦ ribbon grain ♦ roe grain ♦ seed grain ♦ shrunken grain ♦ silver grain ♦ small grain ♦ Spanish grain ♦ take it with a grain of salt ♦ the grain of the leather ♦ there's not a grain of truth in it ♦ To dye in grain ♦ To dye in the grain ♦ To go against the grain of ♦ torn grain ♦ transversely to the grain ♦ wavy grain ♦ with a grain of salt ♦ without a grain of malice ♦ woolly grain. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "grain": grain-bearing, grain-belt, grain-binder, grain-boundaries, grain-boundary, grain-carrying, grain-cleaner, grain-clipper, grain-collecting, grain-dealer, grain-deficit, grain-drier, grain-dryer, grain-features, grain-free, grain-golden, grain-grower, grain-growers, grain-growing, grain-harvest, grain-importing, grain-like, grain-milling, grain-oriented, grain-producer, grain-producing, grain-short, grain-side, grain-size, grain-storage, grain-supported, grain-surplus, grain-tank, grain-to-grain. | |
Ending with "grain": cross-grain, long-grain. | |
Containing "grain": grass-grain-grass, rice-grain fritillary, two-grain spelt. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
grain | 2,638 | company grain list | 33 |
grain mill | 1,428 | grain trailer | 32 |
grain future | 230 | grain silo | 30 |
grain storage | 156 | grain drill | 30 |
grain valley mo | 103 | grain cart | 28 |
grain elevator | 98 | against the grain | 28 |
wood grain | 80 | golden grain | 28 |
whole grain | 78 | wood grain kit | 27 |
grain bin | 73 | whole grain food | 27 |
agriculture grain | 67 | wheat grain | 26 |
wood grain dash | 52 | grain auger | 26 |
grain market | 50 | grain surgery | 25 |
grain alcohol | 46 | whole grain bread | 24 |
diet grain no | 44 | grain valley | 22 |
grain of paradise | 41 | grain exchange | 21 |
grain marketing | 38 | grain importer | 21 |
goddess grain roman | 38 | canadian grain commission | 20 |
grain truck | 37 | cash grain bid | 20 |
grain price | 36 | grain cleaning | 19 |
wood grain dash kit | 35 | bread grain recipe whole | 19 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "grain"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | grimcë (corpuscle, crumb, granule, mote, particle, tiny bit), ujëra (water, watermark), strukturë (conformation, construction, contexture, fabric, frame, framework, make up, pattern, set, set up, skeleton, state, structure), njësi mase (pennyweight), korrizë, kokërr (bean, Berry, bulb, corn, lump), karakter (character, ethos, fiber, fibre, format, kind, make, mettle, Mold, mould, nature, persona, size, sort, temper), drithëra (corn), drithë (cereal, corn). (various references) | |
Arabic | مزاج (cast of mind, complexion, constitution, disposition, feather, figure, frame, frame of mind, framing, humor, humour, kidney, mettle, mind, mood, nature, spirits, state of mind, temper, temperament, tone, vein), نوع (brood, change, class, description, form, gender, genus, kidney, kind, manner, order, quality, ripeness, run, sex, sort, species, stripe, style, type, variegate, variety, vary), حبيبة (babe, granule, lass, pellet, sweetheart), حبوب (cereal), حبة (berry, boil), حبب (endear, granulate, pearl), سطح محبب, طبع (etching, habit, impression, inscribe, instill, instillation, lithograph, mood, nature, normalize, print, printing, publishing, redaction, run, stamp, temper, temperament), ضرب (batter, battery, beat, beat off, belabour, biff, buffet, chastise, connect, curry, description, drub, drubbing, fib, flap, flapping, form, galvanize, genre, go getter, hit, hitting, impact, jabbing, kidney, kind, lace, lace into smb., lam, larrup, let out, lock out, manner, multiplication, multiply, order, overtake, paddle, paste, pasting, patter, poke, pommel, pound, pummel, slash, slosh, sock, sort, stamp, strike, stripe, tan, tanning, thrash, thrashing, thresh, variety, wallop, whip), جزع (anxiety, craze, despondency, despondent, impatient, solicitous, vein), القمح, التجزع, إنتزع الشعر عن الجلد, شامة (beauty spot, mole, pit), بذرة (germ, kernel, pip, seed, seedling, sowing, sperm, spore). (various references) | |
Basque | ale. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | зърнени храни, придавам зърнена повърхност на, природа (composition, country, fiber, fibre, kind, make up, nature, scenery, temper), боя (coat, dip, dye, paint, primer, stain, tint), боядисвам с трайна боя, лицева страна на кожа, житен (cereal, corny, graminaceous, gramineous, wheat, wheaten), житно растение (cereal, grass), посоката на влакната, зрънце (granule, speck), строеж (conformation, construction, design, formation, make up, making, mechanism, pattern, set up, structure, texture, turn), зърно (bean, corn, kernel, mammilla, nipple, seed), образувам зърна, очиствам кожа от козината, влакнест строеж (fibrillation), гран, гранулирам (granulate), устройство (appliance, composition, conformation, design, fabric, frame, hang, mechanism, organization, pattern, rig, set, set up, structure), ставам на зърна, жито (wheat). (various references) | |
Chinese | 粟 (millet), 穀類 (cereal), 穀 (corn), 禾 (cereal), 五谷 (grains), 料 (feed, material, stuff, to anticipate, to expect, to guess). (various references) | |
Cornish | grünen. (various references) | |
Czech | grán, zrno (bean, corn, granule, kernel, seed), zrnko (atom, element, granule), zrnitost (texture), zrní (seed), vlákno (fiber, fibre, filament, staple, strand, string, thread), obilí (cereals, corn, seed corn), líc (face, obverse). (various references) | |
Danish | grain, traefiber (grain of the wood, grain of wood), træfiber (cambium, grain of the wood, grain of wood, vascular cambium), sølvkorn, partikel (particle), narv, korn (cereals, grain of seed, granules, seed), froekorn, frøkorn (grain of seed, seed), fiberretning, fiberforloeb, drivmiddelblok (propellant grain), boersten. (various references) | |
Dutch | zaadkorrel (granule, pip), korrel (granule, pip), pit (core, fuse, granule, kernel, nucleus, pip, pit, wick). (various references) | |
Esperanto | greno, grajno (granule, pip), vejni (vein). (various references) | |
Faeroese | korn (granule, pip), byggkorn (granule, pip). (various references) | |
Farsi | طبقه (Bed, Caste, Category, Class, Estate, Genus, Ilk, Order, Race, Sort, Stage, Story, Stratum), دان , دانه (Bait, Bean, Birdseed, Granule, Kernel, Pill, Rash, Seed, Semen), دانه زدن , شاخه (Arm, Bough, Limb, Sprout, Tributary, Wing), رگه (Rake, Strain, Streak, Thread, Vein), رنگ (Colony, Complexion, Dye, Hue, Indigo, Paint, Shade, Speckle, Tint, Tune), جو (Atmosphere, Barley), جوانه زدن (Branch, Bud, Burgeon, Erupt, Germinate, Leaf, Nip, Peep, Ratoon, Shoot, Sprit, Sprout, Spurt, Tiller), خرده (Bit, Bittock, Crumb, Debris, Fragment, Glimmer, Jot, Nip, Particle, Shred, Small, Vestige, Weeny, Whit), بازو (Arm), ذره (Ace, Bit, Corpuscle, Dust, Iota, Jot, Nip, Particle, Scruple, Shred, Speck, Vestige, Whit), تراشیدن (Carve, Erase, Excoriate, Expunge, Face, Grave, Pare, Rase, Raze, Scrape, Shave, Trim, Whittle), تفاله حبوبات , حبوبات (Cereal), حبه (Bean), حالت (Attitude, Case, Condition, Estate, If, Mood, Pose, Posture, Predicament, Self, Situation, Speed, Stance, State, Status, Temper, Temperament, Trim, Vein), گرم (Ardent, Ebullient, Gram, Hot, Muggy, Peppery, Perfervid, Thermal, Warm), چنگال (Claw, Clef, Clutch, Fork, Nail, Paw, Pitchfork, Prong, Rake, Talon), مشرب (Habit, Mood), پشم کندن , خوی (Blood, Nature, Navigate, Sweat). (various references) | |
Finnish | jyvä (granule, pip), vilja (corn, crop), rae (granule, hailstone). (various references) | |
French | grain (granule), graine (granule). (various references) | |
Frisian | nôt (cereal). (various references) | |
German | korn (bead, corn, corn schnapps, front sight, granule, kernel, pip, seed, speck, stone), getreide (cereal, corn, crop, rick), Samenkorn (seed, seed corn), narben (scars), maserung (texture). (various references) | |
Greek | κόκκος (coccus, crumb, gr, grain of seed, graininess, granule, seed, shot). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מעה (kernel), לחם (bread, loaf, provision, wheat), תבואה (crop, harvest, income, produce, profit, yield), שמץ (iota, jot, mite, modicum, morsel, odor, odour, particle, pinch, shade, shred, soupcon, sprinkling, suspicion, syllable, tincture, trace, whit), קמצוץ (pinch, tittle), קורט (particle, sprinkle), דגן (cereal, corn), גושיש (particle), גרעין (granule, kernel, nutlet, pip, seed, stone), גרגיר, גרגר (granule), סיקוס (knag, knar, knot, node). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szemcse (button, corn, globule, granule, particle, pellet, speck), gabona (cereal, corn, crops cut up by the hail, frumenty, grain crop). (various references) | |
Indonesian | gandum (buckwheat, cereal, oat, wheat, wheat flour), butir padi, butir (granule, item, pellet, small object), bukur, barik-barik (vein). (various references) | |
Italian | venatura (grain of the wood, grain of wood, mapping, streaking, veining mapping), grano (bead, corn, wheat), granello (barleycorn, granule, speck), grana (grit, money). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 肌 (body, disposition, skin, texture). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きめこまか (meticulous, texture), きめ (agreement, rule, texture), つぶ, こくりゅう (kernel), こくもつ (cereal, corn), りゅうし (particle), もくり, もくめ, じはだ (texture), はだ (body, disposition, one's bent, skin, surface texture, temperament, texture). (various references) | |
Korean | 곡물 (Cereal, grains). (various references) | |
Manx | grine (bread corn, cereal, foresight, grapeshot, oat grist, pellet), grinaghey, freih, cur daah snaieagh er, arroo (corn). (various references) | |
Maori | kaakano (berry). (various references) | |
Mohawk | enhnekeri. (various references) | |
Norwegian | tekstur, korne seg, korn. (various references) | |
Occitan | gran (seed). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aingray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | semente (corn, granule, kernel, pip, seed), grão (bean, berry, corn, granule, grit, pip, seed, speck), fibra (fiber, ply, thread). (various references) | |
Romanian | greutate de, grâne (cereals, corn), grâu (cereals, corn, wheat), grãunte (corn, grains, granule, kernel, seed), granulã (granule, particle, Pearl, pellet), granula (corn, granulate, Pearl), bucate (corn, diet, dishes, food, victuals), cantitate minimã, caracter (aspect, character, characteristic, color, colour, complexion, composition, constitution, disposition, feature, kidney, kind, letter, loathsomeness, mettle, nature, patchiness, sort, spirit, stamp, state, temper), fire (character, disposition, feather, fiber, fibre, mettle, nature, sort, spirit, temper), borhot (draff, Marc), da un aspect granulat, bob (bean, bob sleigh, bobsled, bobsleigh, corn, kernel, Pearl, seed, speck), şagrina, aspect granulos, cerealã (cereal), cereale (cereal, cereals, corn), culoare stacojie, fãrâmiţã, înclinaţie (addiction, aptness, disposition, hade, inclination, incline, individuality, lean, leaning, mind, notion, partiality, penchant, ply, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, relish, set, squint, taste, tendency, turn, twist, vein, vocation), fir (bit, clue, hair, lint, particle, purl, stitch, thread, tittle, wire), vopsi trainic, imita fibra lemnoasã, mãcina (Bray, bruise, crush, eat, fester, flour, grind, mill), marmora (cloud, mottle), piazã (foretoken), reziduu (residual, residue, residuum, sediment), strop (atom, bead, bit, drop, nip, ounce, Pearl, peg, spatter, speck, spot), vopsea rezistentã, fibrã (fiber, fibre, lint, staple, string, thread). (various references) | |
Russian | зерно (corn, granule, kernel, seed). (various references) | |
Scottish | spilgean (seedling). (various references) | |
Sepedi | mabele. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | gren, zrno (bullet, kernel, seed), trunka (bit, crumb, dollop, scintilla, shred, sprinkling, whit), žito (cereal, wheat), žitarica (cereal). (various references) | |
Spanish | grano (Berry, carbuncle, corn, kernel, particle, pimple, speck, spot), flor (bloom, blossom, flower, head, pip, posy, self), fibra (fiber, fibre, filament, string, thread, vein). (various references) | |
Swazi | lú-hlavu. (various references) | |
Swedish | korn (barley, barleycorn, corn, fleck, flick, granule, kernel, pip, speck), spannmål (cereals, corn, dry goods), säd (corn, seed, semen), gryn (groats), frö (embryo, germ, seed), fiber (fiber, fibre, filament, string, thread). (various references) | |
Turkish | granül (granular, granule, granulous), zerre (atom, corpuscle, corpuscule, crumb, granule, iota, jot, mite, molecule, monad, mote, particle, rap, Ray, scintilla, shadow, sparklet, speck, tittle, touch, vestige, whit), tanelemek (granulate), tanecik (flake, fleck, granule, particle), tane (bead, bean, kernel, legume, piece, seed), tahıl (cereal, cereals, corn, corny), damarlı yapmak, damarlı yüzey, damar (blood vessel, nerve, phlebo-, streak, string, vascular, vein, vessel), ağacı damarlı boyamak, öğütmek (crush, flour, granulate, grind, mill, triturate), çizgi (bar, drawing, furrow, groove, line, ruling, score, scratch, stria, stripe, wheal). (various references) | |
Turkmen | galla (bread), digir, dдne (pit, seed). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | кристалізувати (crystallize), крихта (modicum, ounce, scruple, tithe, whit), гран, зерно (bread-stuffs, corn, kernel), подрібнювати (atomize, beetle, granulate, grind up, mill, parcel). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | da sần (grain-leather). (various references) | |
Welsh | gronyn (atom, grape, roe), graen (fear, gloss, grief, grievous, lustre, sad, ugly). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | ezinu, ki, e. (various references) |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | kokkos. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | doli, far, far farris, farris, frumenta, frumenti, frumento, frumentum, grana, grano, granum, mica, micha, michae, micham, michas, micis. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | corn. (various references) |
| Italian | 900-Modern | grano. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 16, Verse 7 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Epeita eterw eipen su de poson ofeileiV o de eipen ekaton korouV sitou kai legei autw dexai sou to gramma kai grayon ogdohkonta |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Deinde alio dixit tu vero quantum debes qui ait centum choros tritici ait illi accipe litteras tuas et scribe octoginta |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | þa sæde he oðrum hu mycel scealt þu: þa cwæð he hund mittena hwætes; þa cwæð he. nim þine stafas and writ hundeahtatig; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Aftirward he seide to another, And hou myche owist thou? Which answerde, An hundrid coris of whete. And he seide to hym, Take thi lettris, and write foure scoore. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Then sayd he to another: what owest thou? And he sayde: an hondred quarters of wheate. He sayd to him: Take thy bill and write foure scoore. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, A hundred measures of wheat. And he said to him, Take thy bill, and write eighty. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Then he said to another, What is the amount of your debt? And he said, A hundred measures of grain. And he said to him, Take your account and put down eighty. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Luke Chapter 16, Verse 7 |
| Cebuano | Unya miingon siya sa lain, `Ug ikaw, pila bay imong utang?` Kini mitubag, `Usa ka gatus ka bakid nga trigo.` Ug siya miingon kaniya, `Ania, dawata ang kasabutan, `ug isulat ang kawaloan ka bakid.` |
| Croatian | Zatim reèe drugomu: 'A ti, koliko ti duguješ?' On odgovori: 'Sto kora pšenice.' Kaže mu: 'Uzmi svoju zadužnicu i napiši osamdeset.'" |
| Danish | Derefter sagde han til en anden: Men du, hvor meget er du skyldig? Men han sagde: Hundrede Mål Hvede. Han siger til ham: Tag dit Skyldbrev og skriv firsindstyve! |
| Dutch | Daarna zeide hij tot een anderen: En gij, hoeveel zijt gij schuldig? En hij zeide: Honderd mudden tarwe. En hij zeide tot hem: Neem uw handschrift, en schrijf tachtig. |
| Finnish | Sitten hän sanoi toiselle: `Entä sinä, paljonko sinä olet velkaa?` Tämä sanoi: `Sata tynnyriä nisuja`. Hän sanoi hänelle: `Tässä on velkakirjasi, kirjoita kahdeksankymmentä`. |
| French | Il dit ensuite à un autre: Et toi, combien dois-tu? Cent mesures de blé, répondit-il. Et il lui dit: Prends ton billet, et écris quatre-vingts. |
| German | Darnach sprach er zu dem andern: Du aber, wie viel bist du schuldig? Er sprach: Hundert Malter Weizen. Und er sprach zu ihm: Nimm deinen Brief und schreib achtzig. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kemudian ia berkata kepada orang yang kedua, 'Dan Saudara, berapa utang Saudara?' Orang itu menjawab, 'Seribu karung gandum.' Pegawai keuangan itu berkata kepadanya, 'Ini surat utangmu. Tulislah: delapan ratus.' |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Setelah itu berkatalah ia kepada yang lain: Engkau ini, berapa banyak utangmu? Maka katanya: Gandum seratus pikul. Maka katanya kepadanya: Terimalah surat utangmu ini, tuliskan delapan puluh. |
| Italian | Poi disse a un altro: Tu quanto devi? Rispose: Cento misure di grano. Gli disse: Prendi la tua ricevuta e scrivi ottanta. |
| Maori | Katahi ia ka mea ki tetahi, E hia hoki i a koe? Ka mea ia, Kotahi rau mehua witi. na ka mea ia ki a ia, Tangohia tau pukapuka, tuhituhia e waru tekau. |
| Norwegian | Derefter sa han til en annen: Og du, hvor meget er du skyldig? Han sa: Hundre tønner hvete. Han sier til ham: Her har du ditt gjeldsbrev; skriv åtti! |
| Portuguese | Perguntou depois a outro: E tu, quanto deves? Respondeu ele: Cem coros de trigo. E disse-lhe: Toma a tua conta e escreve oitenta. |
| Rumanian | Apoi a zis altuia: ,Dar tu, ckt ewti dator?` ,O sutq de mqsuri de grku`, a rqspuns el. Wi i -a zis: ,Ia-yi zapisul, wi scrie optzeci.` |
| Shuar | `Nuyá Chíkich tumashmaku Támatai "¿Amesha Urutmá tumashiitiam?" timiai.' `Tutai nii chichaak "Shana sian taru tumashiitjai" timiai.' `Tutai "Pai. Papinium tumashrum ana nu Júiti. Chíkich papinium aya uchentak aarta" timiai.' |
| Spanish | Después dijo a otro: 'Y tú, ¿cuánto debes?' Y él le dijo: 'Cien medidas de trigo.' Él le dijo: 'Toma tu recibo y escribe: ochenta.' |
| Swahili | Kisha akamwuliza mdeni mwingine: `Wewe unadaiwa kiasi gani?` Yeye akamjibu: `Magunia mia ya ngano.` Yule karani akamwambia: `Chukua hati yako ya deni, andika themanini.` |
| Swedish | Sedan frågade han en annan: 'och du, huru mycket är du skyldig?' Denne svarade: 'hundra tunnor* vete.' Då sade han till honom: 'Tag här ditt skuldebrev och skriv åttio.' |
| Uma | "Oti toe, pai' na'uli' -ki karodua-na: `Hiaa' iko, hangkuja-kowo inta-nu?' "Natompoi' -hawo: `Hancobu karu' pae.' "Na'uli' topobago toei: `Ohe'i sura inta-nu, uki' -mi walu atu karu' -wadi.' |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "grain": grained, grainer, grainers, grainfield, grainfields, grainier, grainiest, graininess, graininesses, graining, grains, grainy. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "grain": engrain, grosgrain, ingrain, multigrain. (additional references) | |
Words containing "grain": engrained, engraining, engrains, grosgrains, ingrained, ingrainedly, ingraining, ingrains, migraine, migraines, migrainous, multigrains. (additional references) | |
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"Grain" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: agrain, arain, frain, gaian, Gainmh, garan, Garavini, Gargi, garin, garini, garlin, garmain, garni, Garon, Garrani, Garsin, gartain, gerwin, ghain, Ghajn, giran, glain, gorain, Gorani, graa, Graan, Grafia, Grafix, graid, graie, graig, graine, graing, grainne, graint, grait, gran, grania, Granick, Granizo, granu, graon, Graun, Graunt, Gravina, Grayon, greiv, grian, gribin, griin, grink, groik, Grudin, Gruen, Grusin, gurian, gwaun, gyaan, krain, orain. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "grain" (pronounced grā"n) |
| 4 | g r ā" n | ingrain. |
| 3 | -r ā" n | brain, constrain, crane, drain, overtrain, rain, refrain, reign, rein, restrain, retrain, sprain, strain, train. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: garni. | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-n-r" | |
-1 letter: agin, airn, gain, girn, gnar, gran, grin, ragi, rain, rang, rani, ring. | |
-2 letters: ain, air, ani, gan, gar, gin, nag, rag, ran, ria, rig, rin. | |
-3 letters: ag, ai, an, ar, in, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-n-r" | |
+1 letter: airing, arcing, arming, baring, caring, daring, earing, faring, gainer, gradin, grains, grainy, gratin, haring, margin, oaring, onagri, origan, paring, racing, raging, raking, raping, raring, rasing, rating, raving, raxing, raying, razing, reagin, regain, regina, taring, waring. | |
+2 letters: adoring, aginner, airings, airting, aligner, anergia, anergic, angaria, angrier, angrily, arching, arcking, argling, arguing, arising, armings, arraign, barbing, barding, barfing, bargain, barging, barking, barring, bearing, blaring, bracing, braking, braving, braying, brazing, brigand, carding, carking, carling, carping, carting, carving, chagrin, charing, craning, craping, crating, craving, crazing, darings, darking, darling, darning, darting, deraign, draping, drawing, draying, earings, earning, earring, engrail, engrain, erasing, fairing, farcing, farding, farming, fearing, flaring, framing, fraying, gainers, garbing, garnish, garring, gastrin, gearing, germina, glaring, gracing, gradine, grading, gradins, grained, grainer, granita, granite, grannie, graplin, gratine, grating, gratins, graving, graying, grazing, gripman, guarani, harking, harming, harping, hearing, ingraft, ingrain, ingrate, jarring, karting, lairing, larding, larking, mangier, margins, marking, marling, marring, marting, migrant, naggier, nargile, narking, nearing, orating, organic, origans, pairing, parging, parings, parking, parling, parring, parsing, parting, pignora, prating, praying, racings, racking, radding, rafting, ragging, raiding, railing, raining, raising, ramming, ramping, rangier, ranging, ranking, ranting, rapping, rasping, ratings, ratting, ravings, razzing, reading, reagins, realign, reaming, reaping, rearing, reaving, regains, reginae, reginal, reginas, ringtaw, roaming, roaring, sabring, sacring, sangria, scaring, searing, seringa, sharing, signora, snaring, soaring, sparing, staring, syringa, tangier, tarring, tarting, tearing, tracing, trading, varying, vinegar, wairing, warding, warking, warming, warning, warping, warring, wearing, yarding, yarning, zingara, zingare, zingari, zingaro. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Quotations: Speeches 15. Usage Frequency 16. Names: Frequency | 17. Names: Derived from 18. Names: Company Usage 19. Expressions 20. Expressions: Internet | 21. Translations: Modern 22. Translations: Ancient 23. Bible Trace 24. Abbreviations | 25. Acronyms 26. Derivations 27. Rhymes 28. Anagrams | 29. Bibliography |
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