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Spelling: [greynd]

IPA: /greɪnd/

Grained is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 292 anagrams from letters in grained (adeginr).

Definitions for grained

noun

1. a small, hard seed, especially the seed of a food plant such as wheat, corn, rye, oats, rice, or millet.
2. the gathered seed of food plants, especially of cereal plants.
3. such plants collectively.
4. any small, hard particle, as of sand, gold, pepper, or gunpowder.
5. the smallest unit of weight in most systems, originally determined by the weight of a plump grain of wheat. In the U.S. and British systems, as in avoirdupois, troy, and apothecaries' weights, the grain is identical. In an avoirdupois ounce there are 437.5 grains; in the troy and apothecaries' ounces there are 480 grains (one grain equals 0.0648 gram).
6. the smallest possible amount of anything:
7. the arrangement or direction of fibers in wood, or the pattern resulting from this.
8. the direction in which the fibers of a piece of dressed wood, as a board, rise to the surface:
9. the side of leather from which the hair has been removed.
10. a stamped pattern that imitates the natural grain of leather: used either on leather to simulate a different type of natural leather, or on coated cloth.
11. Textiles. the fibers or yarn in a piece of fabric as differentiated from the fabric itself. the direction of threads in a woven fabric in relation to the selvage.
12. the lamination or cleavage of stone, coal, etc.
13. Metallurgy. any of the individual crystalline particles forming a metal.
14. Jewelry. a unit of weight equal to 50 milligrams or ¼ carat, used for pearls and sometimes for diamonds.
15. the size of constituent particles of any substance; texture:
16. a granular texture or appearance:
17. a state of crystallization:
18. temper or natural character:
19. Rocketry. a unit of solid propellant.
20. Obsolete. color or hue.

Idioms

1. against the / one's grain, in opposition to one's temper, inclination, or character:
2. with a grain of salt. salt1 (def 24).

adjective

1. having, reduced to, consisting of, or bearing grain or grains (usually used in combination):
2. having a granular form, structure, or surface:
3. having an artificially produced granular texture or pattern:
4. marked by a particular quality (usually used in combination):

verb (used with object)

1. to form into grains; granulate.
2. to give a granular appearance to.
3. to paint in imitation of the grain of wood, stone, etc.:
4. to feed grain to (an animal).
5. Tanning. to remove the hair from (skins). to soften and raise the grain of (leather).

Origin of grained

First recorded in 1520-30; grain + -ed³

Examples for grained

Some seven years ago I varnished a table-top which had been grained.

The Percheron had been grained too heavily and had not been given sufficient exercise.

The fat is saponified, grained and boiled on strength, as previously described.

The plate is grained as in the transfer process, and is then etched.

When thoroughly dry, it is grained again in two or three ways.

They are staked after drying further, and often grained three ways.

grained letter-paper—gilt-edged—with a favorite perfume in it.

It can be grained in oil or in distemper in both of its forms and in combinations of the two.

The watch had an 18-size 3/4-plate movement with grained nickel finish.

It's sort o' grained in that man to hev folks disciple after him.