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grains grains

Spelling: [greynz]

IPA: /greɪnz/

Grains is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 141 anagrams from letters in grains (aginrs).

Definitions for grains

noun

1. an iron instrument with barbed prongs, for spearing or harpooning fish.
2. a small, hard seed, especially the seed of a food plant such as wheat, corn, rye, oats, rice, or millet.
3. the gathered seed of food plants, especially of cereal plants.
4. such plants collectively.
5. any small, hard particle, as of sand, gold, pepper, or gunpowder.
6. 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).
7. the smallest possible amount of anything:
8. the arrangement or direction of fibers in wood, or the pattern resulting from this.
9. the direction in which the fibers of a piece of dressed wood, as a board, rise to the surface:
10. the side of leather from which the hair has been removed.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. the lamination or cleavage of stone, coal, etc.
14. Metallurgy. any of the individual crystalline particles forming a metal.
15. Jewelry. a unit of weight equal to 50 milligrams or ¼ carat, used for pearls and sometimes for diamonds.
16. the size of constituent particles of any substance; texture:
17. a granular texture or appearance:
18. a state of crystallization:
19. temper or natural character:
20. Rocketry. a unit of solid propellant.
21. 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).

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 grains

1895-1900; earlier grainse Old Norse grein branch, division; compare Swedish gren

Examples for grains

Do not use a spoon, as that will not loosen the grains sufficiently.

The malting of grains, it will be remembered, is explained in Cereals.

And most American exports consist of goods like grains, or cherries, or electric turbines, or airplanes.

All grains produce lectins, which selectively bind to unique proteins on the surfaces of bacteria, fungi, and insects.

No grains are crushed or damaged by the feet or shovels of workmen.

From there, you can reintroduce some of the “grey area” foods like dairy and grains to see how you tolerate them.

With grains that feed the Cannon's breath, And boom his sentences of death!

Brewers' grains are the residue of barley malt and corn grits.

Baijiu is a general Chinese term for spirits made from grains.

All things considered, lower levels of U.S. economic activity tend to lead to lower demand for grains, steel, and oil.