grain
Noun
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is a type of: atom, corpuscle, molecule, mote, particle, speck - (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anythingsubtypes: granule - a tiny grain
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is a type of: food product, foodstuff - a substance that can be used or prepared for use as foodsubtypes:
- corn, edible corn - ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food
- grist - grain intended to be or that has been ground
- groats - the hulled and crushed grain of various cereals
- millet - small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica
- barley, barleycorn - a grain of barley
- buckwheat - grain ground into flour
- wheat, wheat berry - grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour
- oat - seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as `oats')
- rice - grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished
- indian rice, wild rice - grains of aquatic grass of North America
- malt - a cereal grain (usually barley) that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially in brewing and distilling
same as: cereal, food grain -
is a type of: leather - an animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning
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is a type of: metric weight unit, weight unit - a decimal unit of weight based on the gramsame as: metric grain
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is a type of:
- troy unit - any of the unit of the troy system of weights
- apothecaries' unit, apothecaries' weight - any weight unit used in pharmacy; an ounce is equal to 480 grains and a pound is equal to 12 ounces
is a part of:- scruple - a unit of apothecary weight equal to 20 grains
- pennyweight - a unit of apothecary weight equal to 24 grains
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is a type of: avoirdupois unit - any of the units of the avoirdupois system of weightsis a part of: dram - 1/16 ounce or 1.771 grams
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is a type of: seed - a small hard fruitsubtypes:
- amaranth - seed of amaranth plants used as a native cereal in Central and South America
- barleycorn - a grain of barley
- wheat berry - a grain of wheat
- kernel - a single whole grain of a cereal
- rye - the seed of the cereal grass
same as: caryopsis -
is a type of: cereal, cereal grass - grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet
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is a type of: littleness, smallness - the property of having a relatively small size
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is a type of: texture - the characteristic appearance of a surface having a tactile qualitysubtypes:
- wood grain, woodgrain, woodiness - texture produced by the fibers in wood
- graining, woodgraining - a texture like that of wood
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is a type of: composition, constitution, make-up, makeup, physical composition - the way in which someone or something is composedsame as: texture
Verb
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same as: ingrain
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is a type of: paint - apply paint to; coat with paint
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is a type of: form - assume a form or shapesame as: granulate
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same as: granulate
Found on Word Lists
- Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
- Nouns denoting foods and drinks
- Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
- Nouns denoting plants
- Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
- Nouns denoting substances
- Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
- Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
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