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General dictionaries General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. grain: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  2. grain: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
  3. grain: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  4. GRAIN, Grain, grain: Wordnik [home, info]
  5. grain, the grain: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  6. Grain: Wiktionary [home, info]
  7. grain: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  8. grain: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  9. grain: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  10. Grain, grain: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  11. grain: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  12. Grain, grain: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  13. grain: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  14. grain: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
  15. GRAIN, Grain (agriculture), Grain (cipher), Grain (disambiguation), Grain (fruit), Grain (knitting), Grain (measure), Grain (unit), Grain (weights and measures), Grain (wood): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  16. Grain: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  17. grain: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  18. grain: Rhymezone [home, info]
  19. grain, grain (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  20. grain: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  21. GRAIN: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848) [home, info]
  22. Grain: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]
  23. Grain: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
  24. grain: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  25. grain: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words [home, info]
  26. grain: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  27. grain: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  28. grain: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  29. grain: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  30. grain: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. GRAIN: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary) [home, info]
  2. Grain: Art Glossary: Terminology for artists [home, info]
  3. Grain: Natural Magick [home, info]
  4. grain: ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Grain: Construction Term Glossary [home, info]
  2. Grain: Monetary History [home, info]
  3. GRAIN: Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition [home, info]
  4. GRain, Grain (cargo capacity): Abbreviations in shipping [home, info]
  5. grain: Legal dictionary [home, info]
  6. grain: Financial dictionary [home, info]
  7. grain: BusinessDictionary.com [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. GRAIN, grain: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info]
  2. Grain (agriculture), Grain (fruit), grain: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. grain: Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary [home, info]
  2. GRAIN, grain: online medical dictionary [home, info]
  3. Grain (agriculture), Grain (fruit), grain: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Grain: Brilliant Dream Dictionary [home, info]
  2. GRAIN: Acronym Finder [home, info]
  3. GRAIN: AbbreviationZ [home, info]
  4. grain: Idioms [home, info]

Religion dictionaries Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Grain: Easton Bible [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. grain: Archaeology Wordsmith [home, info]
  2. Grain: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics [home, info]
  3. grain: Botanical Terms [home, info]
  4. grain: Flora of New South Wales [home, info]
  5. grain: Natural History Terms [home, info]
  6. grain (gr) [1], grain (gr) [2], grain (gr) [3]: How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement [home, info]

Sports dictionaries Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. grain: Hickok Sports Glossaries [home, info]
  2. grain: Golfer's Dictionary [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. grain: Book Binding [home, info]
  2. GRAIN: Metal Terminology [home, info]
  3. Grain: Dairy Glossary [home, info]
  4. Grain: Gems and Precious Stones [home, info]
  5. Grain: Explosives [home, info]
  6. Grain: Nikonians Photo Glossary [home, info]
  7. Grain: Woodworking Glossary [home, info]
  8. GRAIN: Lake and Water Word Glossary [home, info]
  9. Grain: Construction Glossary [home, info]
  10. Grain: Paper Making [home, info]
  11. Grain -: Glossary of Woodworking Terms [home, info]
  12. Grain: PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography [home, info]
  13. Grain: Glossary of Woodworking Terms [home, info]
  14. Grain: Sweetwater Music [home, info]
  15. Grain: Urban Conservation Glossary [home, info]
  16. grain: Television: Critical Methods and Applications [home, info]
  17. GRAIN: Power Engineering [home, info]

Quick definitions (grain)

noun:  the direction or texture of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric ("Saw the board across the grain")
noun:  foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
noun:  a small hard particle ("A grain of sand")
noun:  dry seedlike fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
noun:  1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams
noun:  1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams
noun:  used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat
verb:  paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood
verb:  become granular
verb:  form into grains
verb:  thoroughly work in ("His hands were grained with dirt")
name:  A surname (very rare: popularity rank in the U.S.: #72447)

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Words similar to grain:   caryopsis, cereal, grained, graining, granulate, ingrain, food grain, kernel, metric grain, millet, oat, more...


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