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Results for: "grain"

Translating from English to Finnish

Translations:

grain — harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops
→ vilja
→ jyvät pl
→ jyvä
grain — single seed of grain
→ jyvä
→ graani

More translations:

grain
→ jyvä
grain
→ vilja
grain
→ jyvänen
grain
→ syy
grain
→ hitunen

English definitions WordNet

NOUN 11

  1. a relatively small granular particle of a substance

    • “a grain of sand”
    • “a grain of sugar”
  2. foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses

    Synonymsfood graincereal
  3. the side of leather from which the hair has been removed

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  1. a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat

    Synonymsmetric grain
  2. 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams

  3. 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams

  4. dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn

    Synonymscaryopsis
  5. a cereal grass

    • “wheat is a grain that is grown in Kansas”
  6. the smallest possible unit of anything

    • “there was a grain of truth in what he said”
    • “he does not have a grain of sense”
  7. 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”
  8. 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”
    Synonymstexture

VERB 4

  1. thoroughly work in

    • “His hands were grained with dirt”
    Synonymsingrain
  2. paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood

  3. form into grains

    Synonymsgranulate
  4. become granular

    Synonymsgranulate