Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Rough; roughened.
- Dyed in grain; ingrained.
- Painted as having a grain.
- Formed or divided into grains or small particles.
- In botany, having grain-like tubercles or prominences, as the sepals in some species of Rumex.
- Characterized by a fibrous texture or grain.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a grain; divided into small particles or grains; showing the grain; hence, rough.
- adjective Dyed in grain; ingrained.
- adjective Painted or stained in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc.
- adjective (Bot.) Having tubercles or grainlike processes, as the petals or sepals of some flowers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
grain . - adjective Having a
grain or grains - adjective
Stained with an imitation wood grain - adjective in combination Having a specified type of grain e.g. close-grained
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Examples
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Many of the food blogs I read were extolling the delights of Risotto and then the final straw - I was in the supermarket in the grains aisle, my handbag had slipped off my shoulder, I bent down to pick it up and when I stood up I was at eye-level with a row of Arborio rice, one of the main short-grained rice used to make Risotto.
Stabroek News 2009
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In the worsted rosettes of the bell-ropes, in the plaster picture-frames, in the painted tea-tray and on the cups, in the pediment of the sideboard, in the ornament that crowns the barometer, in the finials of sofa and arm-chair, in the finger-plates of the "grained" door, is to be seen the ineffectual portrait or to be traced the stale inspiration of the flower.
Essays Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell 1884
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From the original (not reproduction) wheel knock off hubs to the NOS grease gun - the correct and original "grained" Cobra emblems to the original restored 16 "steering wheel - from the" ultra-rare "accessory wood shift knob to the correct rivets in the owner's manual in the glove box, minute details abound.
Antique News News! 2010
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Moreover, one important consequence of voter ignorance is that voters are unlikely to make fine-grained distinctions between “libertarian” paternalistic policies and more heavy-handed ones.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Double Standard of Libertarian Paternalism 2010
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That is very much in sync with what other similarly fine-grained polls have found.
Support for repeal is vastly overstated, part 973 Greg Sargent 2011
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Fine-grained polling reveals that people who say they want repeal may be expressing generalized frustration about the bill, or dislike of certain parts, such as the individual mandate, rather than a desire to see it blown to smithereens.
Is support for repeal vastly overstated? Greg Sargent 2011
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When pollsters drill down with fine-grained questions, support for full repeal plummets.
Is support for repeal vastly overstated? Greg Sargent 2011
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China's "Great Firewall" is another example of fine-grained state information control, wielded with precision to block specific websites and content networks.
Jim Cowie: The Resilience of Egypt Jim Cowie 2011
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It also means that Twitter users will have finer grained control over which applications have ongoing access to their accounts — and will be able to disable applications without changing their password.
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NERC's forecasts are the gold standard for the U.S. power system because they are built from the bottom up, starting with finely grained data from individual plants.
If the Lights Go Out 2011
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