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| Sounds | grey'n |
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| Rhymes | abstain, again, airplane, and 116 more rhymes in eyn at the HyperDic website... |
| Meaning | A small hard particle. |
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| Examples | "a grain of sand" |
| Narrower | granule |
| Broader | atom, molecule, particle, corpuscle, mote, speck |
| Verbs | grain; grain; grain |
| Meaning | Foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses. |
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| Synonyms | food grain, cereal |
| Narrower | corn, edible corn; grist; groats; millet; barley, barleycorn; buckwheat; wheat, wheat berry; oat; rice; wild rice, Indian rice; malt |
| Broader | foodstuff, food product |
| Meaning | Used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat. |
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| Synonyms | metric grain |
| Part of | decigram, dg |
| Parts | milligram, mg |
| Broader | metric weight unit, weight unit |
| Meaning | 1/60 dram. Equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams. |
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| Part of | scruple; pennyweight |
| Broader | troy unit; apothecaries' unit, apothecaries' weight |
| Meaning | 1/7000 pound. Equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams. |
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| Part of | dram |
| Broader | avoirdupois unit |
| Meaning | Dry seedlike fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn. |
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| Synonyms | caryopsis |
| Narrower | amaranth; barleycorn; wheat berry; kernel; rye |
| Broader | seed |
| Adjectives | cereal |
| Meaning | The direction or texture of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric. |
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| Examples | "saw the board across the grain" |
| Narrower | wood grain, woodgrain; graining, woodgraining |
| Broader | texture |
| Verbs | grain |
| Meaning | Thoroughly work in. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s something |
| Examples | "His hands were grained with dirt" |
| Synonyms | ingrain |
| Broader | penetrate, perforate |
| Meaning | Paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Broader | paint |
| Nouns | grain; grain; graining |
| Meaning | Form into grains. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Synonyms | granulate |
| Cause to | granulate, grain |
| Broader | shape, form |
| Nouns | grain |
| Meaning | Become granular. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s |
| Synonyms | granulate |
| Caused by | granulate, grain |
| Broader | change shape, change form, deform |
| Nouns | grain |