grain
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- noun
- /ɡreɪn/
:
grano
- Not a grain is left, all crushed and scattered.
- grains of sand
- grains of dust
- a grain of salt
If you collect some of those grains of sand, you get Uber wealth.
- If you collect some of those grains of sand, you get Uber wealth.
- One last, one last aspect of this in a, in a, in a grain of sand, if you will.
- It feels really like it has little grains in it, like just a little bit.
Examples
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I ate my rice one by one, chewing and swallowing each grain before continuing.
Fiction book (1993) -
I can build a castle From a single grain of sand
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Last year, in Providence, you sold grain to the resistance.
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Meteorites come in all sizes, from no larger than grains of dust to many tons.
Academic text (1992) -
A few of them hoarded some wheat grains to keep the wheat safe and sacred.
Academic text (1990) -
Every inch of ground blossomed with flowers and grains, including produce never before conceivable in Israel.
Fiction book (1995) -
I can see a grain of sand in there.
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Not a grain is left, all crushed and scattered.
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We found this woman picking through the dirt for a few grains split from the sacks of cereal.
Synonyms
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A very small piece like a grain, for example of sugar or sand
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A very small speck of dust or dirt
A very small piece like a grain of dust
Idioms
- Informal
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To do something very different from what most people expect or usually do
Compounds
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A grain that still has all its natural parts, like the outer layer and soft inside
- Specialized
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Pure alcohol made by heating fermented grain, used in medicine, as a solvent or fuel additive
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The lines and patterns you see on the surface of wood that its long thin parts make
- Specialized
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A tall plant grown for small edible seeds used for food or animal feed
A small moth whose larvae eat stored grains like wheat or corn and damage them
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A unit of weight that equals 50 milligrams or 1/4 carat used for pearls and diamonds
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A machine that removes dirt and small stones from grain before storage or sale
A small plant from northwestern North America with green and purple bell-shaped flowers
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A hard red wheat grown in Russia and Germany used mostly to feed farm animals
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Etymology
Grain comes from the Latin granum, which means 'seed', and people used the word for any very small hard particle like a bit of sand or salt. So a grain of salt is remembered as a tiny 'seed' of the substance.