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a small hard particle; "a grain of sand" foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat ingrain: thoroughly work in; "His hands were grained with dirt" 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood dry seedlike fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn granulate: form into grains granulate: become granular 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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| grain alcohol |
ethyl alcohol: the intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors; used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions and rocket fuel; proposed as a renewable clean-burning additive to gasoline
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Cereal crops are mostly grasses cultivated for their edible seeds (actually a fruit called a grain, technically a caryopsis). Cereal grains are grown in greater quantities worldwide than any other type of crop and provides more food energy to the human race than any other crop. In some developing nations, cereal grains constitute practically the entire diet of common folk. In developed nations, cereal consumption is more moderate but still substantial. ...
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The direction in which the fibers in a sheet of paper have been made on a paper machine.
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In photography, the grain is the granular particles in photographic emulsion of an original print or negative. The printing process causes the grain to become more apparent than in the original.
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