Grain (v. & n.) See Groan. |
Grain (n.) A single small hard seed |
Grain (n.) The fruit of certain grasses which furnish the chief food of man, as corn, wheat, rye, oats, etc., or the plants themselves |
Grain (n.) Any small, hard particle, as of sand, sugar, salt, etc. |
Grain (n.) The unit of the English system of weights |
Grain (n.) A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes |
Grain (n.) The composite particles of any substance |
Grain (n.) The direction, arrangement, or appearance of the fibers in wood, or of the strata in stone, slate, etc. |
Grain (n.) The fiber which forms the substance of wood or of any fibrous material. |
Grain (n.) The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side. |
Grain (n.) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation |
Grain (n.) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock. See Grained, a., 4. |
Grain (a.) Temper |
Grain (a.) A sort of spice, the grain of paradise. |
Grain (v. t.) To paint in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc. |
Grain (v. t.) To form (powder, sugar, etc.) into grains. |
Grain (v. t.) To take the hair off (skins) |
Grain (n.) To yield fruit. |
Grain (n.) To form grains, or to assume a granular ferm, as the result of crystallization |
Grain (n.) A branch of a tree |
Grain (n.) A tine, prong, or fork. |
Grain (n.) One the branches of a valley or of a river. |
Grain (n.) An iron first speak or harpoon, having four or more barbed points. |
Grain (n.) A blade of a sword, knife, etc. |
Grain (n.) A thin piece of metal, used in a mold to steady a core. |
Grains (n. pl.) See 5th Grain, n., 2 (b). |
Grains (n.) Pigeon's dung used in tanning. See Grainer. n., 1. |
Single (a.) One only, as distinguished from more than one |
Single (a.) Alone |
Single (a.) Hence, unmarried |
Single (a.) Not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others |
Single (a.) Performed by one person, or one on each side |
Single (a.) Uncompounded |
Single (a.) Not deceitful or artful |
Single (a.) Simple |
Single (v. t.) To select, as an individual person or thing, from among a number |
Single (v. t.) To sequester |
Single (v. t.) To take alone, or one by one. |
Single (v. i.) To take the irrregular gait called single-foot |
Single (n.) A unit |
Single (n.) The reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness. |
Single (n.) A handful of gleaned grain. |
Single (n.) A game with but one player on each side |
Single (n.) A hit by a batter which enables him to reach first base only. |
Single-acting (a.) Having simplicity of action |
Single-breasted (a.) Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only |
Single-foot (n.) An irregular gait of a horse |
Single-handed (a.) Having but one hand, or one workman |
Single-hearted (a.) Having an honest heart |
Single-minded (a.) Having a single purpose |
line-drive single line single | a single resulting from a line drive |
single bingle | a base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base |
rack single-foot | a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately |
single entry single-entry bookkeeping | a simple bookkeeping system, transactions are entered in only one account |
single combat | a fight between two people, in all armies there were officers who needed to prove their bravery by single combat |
grain moth | moth whose larvae feed on grain |
angoumois moth angoumois grain moth Sitotroga cerealella | small moth whose larvae feed on kernels of stored grains |
detached house single dwelling | a house that stands alone |
racing skiff single shell | a shell for a single oarsman |
single bed | a bed for one occupant |
single-breasted jacket | a jacket having fronts that overlap only enough for a single row of buttons |
single-breasted suit | a suit having a single-breasted jacket |
single crochet single stitch | a crochet stitch |
single prop single-propeller plane | a propeller plane with a single propeller |
single-mindedness | characterized by one unified purpose |
texture grain | the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance), breadfruit has the same texture as bread, sand of a fine grain, fish with a delicate flavor and texture, a stone of coarse grain |
grain | the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric, saw the board across the grain |
wood grain woodgrain woodiness | texture produced by the fibers in wood |
grain | the smallest possible unit of anything, there was a grain of truth in what he said, he does not have a grain of sense |
uninominal system uninominal voting system single-member system scrutin uninomial system scrutin uninominal voting system | based on the principle of having only one member (as of a legislature) selected from each electoral district |
single-spacing | typing that does not leave lines blank |
single quote | a single quotation mark |
feed grain | grain grown for cattle feed |
grain food grain cereal | foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses |
light cream coffee cream single cream | cream that has at least % butterfat, in England they call light cream `single cream' |
file single file Indian file | a line of persons or things ranged one behind the other |
grainfield grain field | a field where grain is grown |
grain | a relatively small granular particle of a substance, a grain of sand, a grain of sugar |
grain merchant | a merchant who deals in food grains |
single nucleotide polymorphism SNP | (genetics) genetic variation in a DNA sequence that occurs when a single nucleotide in a genome is altered, SNPs are usually considered to be point mutations that have been evolutionarily successful enough to recur in a significant proportion of the population of a species |
single-leaf single-leaf pine single-leaf pinyon Pinus monophylla | pinon of southwestern United States having solitary needles and often many stems, important as a nut pine |
California single-leaf pinyon Pinus californiarum | very small tree similar to Rocky mountain pinon but having a single needle per fascicle, similar to Parry's pinyon in range |
grain sorghum | any of several sorghums cultivated primarily for grain |
grain | a cereal grass, wheat is a grain that is grown in Kansas |
emmer starch wheat two-grain spelt Triticum dicoccum | hard red wheat grown especially in Russia and Germany, in United States as stock feed |
grain caryopsis | dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn |
grains of paradise Guinea grains Guinea pepper melagueta pepper Aframomum melegueta | West African plant bearing pungent peppery seeds |
mission bells rice-grain fritillary Fritillaria affinis Fritillaria lanceolata Fritillaria mutica | herb of northwestern America having green-and-purple bell-shaped flowers |
horse gram horse grain poor man's pulse Macrotyloma uniflorum Dolichos biflorus | twining herb of Old World tropics cultivated in India for food and fodder, sometimes placed in genus Dolichos |
single tax | a system of taxation in which a tax is levied on a single commodity (usually land) |
single supplement | a surcharge added to the cost per person when traveling alone |
seed corn seed grain | good quality seeds (as kernels of corn) that are reserved for planting |
grain | pound, equals a troy grain or . milligrams |
grain | dram, equals an avoirdupois grain or . milligrams |
grain metric grain | a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds:mg or carat |
one I ace single unity | the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number, he has the one but will need a two and three to go with it, they had lunch at one |
function mathematical function single-valued function map mapping | (mathematics) a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set (the domain of the function) is associated with an element of another set (the range of the function) |
ethyl alcohol ethanol fermentation alcohol grain 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 |
grain | the side of leather from which the hair has been removed |
granulate grain | become granular |