to grain
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8.5
- verb
- /ɡreɪn/
- Specialized
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- He carefully grained the wooden table to give it a textured finish.
- grained like clapboards
Examples
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The artist grained the canvas to create a wood-like appearance for her painting.
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The surface appears to be, uh, very, very fine grained as you get close to it.
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Her skin glowed from within, almost too strongly, as if a flashlight burned behind its pale, fine-grained surface.
Fiction book (1995) -
The LEM footpads are only depressed in the surface about one or two inches, although the surface appears to be very, very fine-grained as you get close to it.
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Grimm rightly recognized the beauty of the marble, which is of the finest whiteness and a superb, sparkling, grained texture.
Academic text (1994) -
Over the wide valley, a dim thin rain, the bluffs along the river grained like clapboards, and the prevailing wind blew a cloudlike mist along the tracks.
Academic text (1994) -
To achieve a rustic look, he grained the doors by applying a special paint technique.
Idioms
- Informal
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7.4
To do something very different from what most people expect or usually do
Compounds
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2.7
A grain that still has all its natural parts, like the outer layer and soft inside
- Specialized
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4.6
Pure alcohol made by heating fermented grain, used in medicine, as a solvent or fuel additive
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3.0
The lines and patterns you see on the surface of wood that its long thin parts make
- Specialized
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6.1
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
- Specialized
A unit of weight that equals 50 milligrams or 1/4 carat used for pearls and diamonds
- Specialized
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
- Specialized
A hard red wheat grown in Russia and Germany used mostly to feed farm animals
How Patterned
Surface Forms
Etymology
Grain as a verb (often 'grained') means to give a surface a woodlike pattern and comes from the noun grain for those lines in wood. So to grain a door is to make it look as if it has the 'grain' of a fine wood.