Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word grain. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in grain.
Definitions and meaning of grain
grain
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ɡɹeɪn/
Rhymes: -eɪn
Etymology 1
From Middle Englishgreyn, grayn, grein, from Old Frenchgrain, grein, from Latingrānum(“seed”), from Proto-Indo-European*ǵr̥h₂nóm(“grain”). Doublet of corn, gram, andgranum.
Noun
grain (countable and uncountable, pluralgrains)
(uncountable) The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
(uncountable) Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
(countable) A single seed of grass food crops.
a grain of wheat
grains of oat
(countable, uncountable) The crops from which grain is harvested.
(uncountable) A linear texture of a material or surface.
(countable) A single particle of a substance.
a grain of sand
a grain of salt
(countable) Any of various small units of mass originally notionally based on grain's weight, variously standardized at different places and times, including
The English grain of 1⁄5760 troy pound or 1⁄7000 pound avoirdupois, now exactly 64.79891 mg.
Synonym:troy grain
The metric, carat, or pearl grain of 1⁄4 carat used for measuring precious stones and pearls, now exactly 50 mg.
(historical) The French grain of 1⁄9216 livre, equivalent to 53.11 mg at metricization and equal to exactly 54.25 mg from 1812–1839 as part of the mesures usuelles.
(countable, chiefly historical) Any of various small units of length originally notionally based on a grain's width, variously standardized at different places and times.
(countable, historical) The carat grain of 1⁄4 carat as a measure of gold purity, creating a 96-point scale between 0% and 100% purity.
(materials) A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
(astronautics) The solid piece of fuel in an individual solid-fuel rocket engine.
A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple.
a.1825, Quoted by Coleridge, preface to Aids to Reflection:
[…] doing as the dyers do, who, having first dipped their silks in colours of less value, then give them the last tincture of crimson in grain.
The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
(in the plural) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum.
Synonym:draff
(botany) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock.
Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
(photography, videography) Visual texture in processed photographic film due to the presence of small particles of a metallic silver, or dye clouds, developed from silver halide that have received enough photons.
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See also
cereal
Appendix:Grains – translation tables for various grains
Verb
grain (third-person singular simple presentgrains, present participlegraining, simple past and past participlegrained)
To feed grain to.
(transitive) To make granular; to form into grains.
(intransitive) To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
(tanning) To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
(tanning) To soften leather.
To yield fruit.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle Englishgrayn, from Old Norsegrein(“bough, branch”), from Proto-Germanic*grainiz(“branch, twig, ramification”), of unknown origin. Related to Englishgrove(“thicket”).
Alternative forms
grane(Scotland, Northern England)
Noun
grain (pluralgrains)
A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant; an offshoot.
A tine, prong, or fork.
One of the branches of a valley or river.
An iron fish spear or harpoon, with a number of points half-barbed inwardly.
4 May 1770, Stephen Forwood (gunner on H.M. Bark Endeavour), journal (quoted by Parkin (page 195)
Served 5 lb of fish per man which was caught by striking with grains
A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
An arm of a cross.
(founding) A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core.
(dialectal) A branch or arm of a stream, inlet, or sea.
(dialectal) A fork in a river valley or ravine.
(dialectal) The branch of a family; clan.
(dialectal, anatomy) The groin; crotch.
(dialectal, anatomy) The fangs of a tooth.
Further reading
“grain”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
“grain”, in The Century Dictionary[…], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Inherited from Middle French, from Old Frenchgrain, grein, from Latingrānum, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European*ǵr̥h₂nóm.
Noun
grainm (pluralgrains)
grain
(figurative) a small amount, a bit
Derived terms
grain de beauté
gros-grain
mettre son grain de sel
ramener son grain de sel
séparer le bon grain de l’ivraie
Related terms
grenier
Etymology 2
Perhaps from etymology 1, referring to hailstones. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
grainm (pluralgrains)
(nautical) squall, thunderstorm
Derived terms
Further reading
“grain”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
garni
Middle English
Verb
grain
Alternative form of greynen
Old French
Alternative forms
grein
Etymology
From Latingrānum.
Noun
grainoblique singular, m (oblique pluralgrainz, nominative singulargrainz, nominative pluralgrain)