🌾 An edible seed 🔬 A tiny particle 🪵 Material texture 🧂 A tiny amount ⚖️ A weight unit 🧪 To form particles 🎨 To add texture 🖐️ To work in deeply

to grain

9.5

To work a color or mark deeply into a surface

verb
/ɡreɪn/

Specialized

: arraigarse

He plans to grain the tabletop, ensuring that the finish becomes an integral part of its design.

Examples

To enhance the texture of the wall, they chose to grain it with a complementary color.
The artist decided to grain the furniture to make it look more rustic and authentic.
However, we feel the process used in this research was more fine-grained as it empirically identified common business models and those that were novel.

Academic text (2016)
I also began a more fine-grained analysis of the language I had documented across the classrooms.

Academic text (2015)
Intervention scholars have advocated for finer-grained analysis of intervention effects.

Academic text (2015)
Therefore, we were unable to provide a more fine-grained analysis of racial/ethnic disproportionate representations within exclusionary discipline actions by type of disability.

Academic text (2012)

Synonyms

to ingrain

vsto grain

4 7.2

To press something firmly into a surface so it is hard to remove

emphasizes becoming an integral part rather than mere removal difficulty

Idioms

against the grain

Informal

10 6.6

In a way that is different from what most people expect

to go against the grain

Informal

8 7.4

To do something very different from what most people expect or usually do

Compounds

whole grain

23 2.7

A grain that still has all its natural parts, like the outer layer and soft inside

grain of truth

Informal

5 3.9

A small real part of a story that is mostly false

grain alcohol

Specialized

2 4.6

Pure alcohol made by heating fermented grain, used in medicine, as a solvent or fuel additive

wood grain

2 3.0

The lines and patterns you see on the surface of wood that its long thin parts make

feed grain

Specialized

1 3.3

Seeds of crops like corn or barley that farmers grow to feed animals

food grain

1 2.3

A small dry seed from plants like wheat or rice that people eat

grain field

1 1.9

A field where crops like wheat and barley grow

grain sorghum

Specialized

1 6.1

A tall plant grown for small edible seeds used for food or animal feed

seed grain

Specialized

1 3.4

Kernels of crops like corn that farmers keep to plant next season

spent grain

Specialized

1 7.3

Leftover grain from making beer that farmers use as animal feed

brewer's grain

Specialized

6.3

Leftover grain from making beer that farmers feed to animals

Angoumois grain moth

9.9

A small moth whose larvae eat stored grains like wheat or corn and damage them

metric grain

Specialized

7.9

A unit of weight that equals 50 milligrams or 1/4 carat used for pearls and diamonds

grain blower

Specialized

6.1

A machine that uses air to move grain

grain cleaner

Specialized

4.8

A machine that removes dirt and small stones from grain before storage or sale

grain merchant

3.0

A person or business that buys and sells grains like wheat

grain moth

7.3

A small insect whose caterpillars eat stored grain and damage food

horse grain

Indian

9.9

A climbing plant with leaves and beans grown for animal feed and food

rice-grain fritillary

9.9

A small plant from northwestern North America with green and purple bell-shaped flowers

two-grain spelt

Specialized

9.9

A hard red wheat grown in Russia and Germany used mostly to feed farm animals

How Deep

to saturate

55 5.2

to grain

Specialized

9.5

coat

92 2.5

Surface Forms

grain infinitive

grained past

grained past participle

graining present participle

grains third person singular

Etymology

Grain used as a verb can also mean to work something into a surface so it becomes part of it, coming from the idea of many small 'grains' settling in. So when a colour or mark is grained into a surface, it is fixed in and stays there.