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(verb) paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood |
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Related Words: paint |
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(noun) the direction or texture of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric: "saw the board across the grain" |
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Related Words: graining, texture, woodgrain, woodgraining |
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(noun) cereal grain suitable as food for human beings |
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Synonyms: cereal, food grain |
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Related Words: Indian rice, barley, barleycorn, buckwheat, corn, edible corn, food product, foodstuff, grist, groats, malt, millet, oat, rice, wheat, wheat berry, wild rice |
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(noun) a small hard particle; "a grain of sand" |
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Related Words: atom, granule, molecule, mote, particle, speck |
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(noun) dry seedlike fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn |
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Synonyms: caryopsis |
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Related Words: amaranth, barleycorn, kernel, rye, seed, wheat berry |
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(noun) 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams |
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Related Words: avoirdupois unit |
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(noun) 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams |
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Related Words: apothecaries' unit, apothecaries' weight, troy unit |
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(noun) used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat |
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Synonyms: metric grain |
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Related Words: metric weight unit, weight unit |
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(verb) become granular |
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Synonyms: granulate |
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Related Words: change form, change shape, deform |
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(verb) form into grains |
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Synonyms: granulate |
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Related Words: form, shape |
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(verb) thoroughly work in; "His hands were grained with dirt" |
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Synonyms: ingrain |
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Related Words: penetrate |
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