grain
//ɡɹeɪn//
Forms
- Plural
- grains
- present (v1)
- grain
- past (v2)
- grained
- past participle (v3)
- grained
- present participle
- graining
- 3rd person singular
- grains
Definitions
1.The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
- We stored a thousand tons of grain for the winter.
2.Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
3.A single seed of grass food crops.
4.The crops from which grain is harvested.
- The fields were planted with grain.
1.To feed grain to.
- He said that no man loved his horses, unless his own hands grained them. Every Christmas he gave them brimming measures.
2.To make granular; to form into grains.
3.To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
4.To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3574
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From Middle English greyn, grayn, grein, from Old French grain, grein, from Latin grānum (“seed”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain”).
Doublet of corn, gram, granum, and grao.