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1.nounA photograph or video shared on this service.
2.nounThe harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley."We stored a thousand tons of grain for the winter."
3.nounSimilar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
4.nounA single seed of grass food crops."a grain of wheat"
5.nounThe crops from which grain is harvested."The fields were planted with grain."
6.nounA linear texture of a material or surface."Cut along the grain of the wood."
7.nounA single particle of a substance."a grain of salt"
8.nounA very small unit of weight, in England equal to 1/480 of an ounce troy, 0.0648 grams or, to be more exact, 64.79891 milligrams (0.002285714 avoirdupois ounce). A carat grain or pearl grain is 1/4 carat or 50 milligrams. The old French grain was 1/9216 livre or 53.11 milligrams, and in the mesures usuelles permitted from 1812 to 1839, with the livre redefined as 500 grams, it was 54.25 milligrams.
9.nounA former unit of gold purity, also known as carat grain, equal to 1/4 "carat" (karat).
10.noun(materials) A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
11.nounA reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple.
12.nounThe hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
13.noun(in the plural) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called draff.
14.nounA rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock.
15.nounTemper; natural disposition; inclination.
16.noun(videography) Visual texture in processed photographic film due to the presence of small particles of a metallic silver, or dye clouds, developed from silver halide that have received enough photons.
17.nounA branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant.
18.nounA tine, prong, or fork.
19.noun(founding) A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core.
20.nounA unit of mass equal to one-thousandth of a kilogram. Symbol: g
21.nounA leguminous plant grown for its seeds, especially the chickpea.
22.nounThe seeds of these plants.
23.nounGrandmother