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1. Meaning 1 · noun

   A photograph or video shared on this service.

2. Meaning 2 · noun

   The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.

   “We stored a thousand tons of grain for the winter.”

3. Meaning 3 · noun

   Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.

4. Meaning 4 · noun

   A single seed of grass food crops.

   “a grain of wheat”

5. Meaning 5 · noun

   The crops from which grain is harvested.

   “The fields were planted with grain.”

6. Meaning 6 · noun

   A linear texture of a material or surface.

   “Cut along the grain of the wood.”

7. Meaning 7 · noun

   A single particle of a substance.

   “a grain of salt”

8. Meaning 8 · noun

   A 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. Meaning 9 · noun

   A former unit of gold purity, also known as carat grain, equal to 1/4 "carat" (karat).

10. Meaning 10 · noun

    (materials) A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.

11. Meaning 11 · noun

    A 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. Meaning 12 · noun

    The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.

13. Meaning 13 · noun

    (in the plural) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called draff.

14. Meaning 14 · noun

    A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock.

15. Meaning 15 · noun

    Temper; natural disposition; inclination.

16. Meaning 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. Meaning 17 · noun

    A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant.

18. Meaning 18 · noun

    A tine, prong, or fork.

19. Meaning 19 · noun

    (founding) A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core.

20. Meaning 20 · noun

    A unit of mass equal to one-thousandth of a kilogram. Symbol: g

21. Meaning 21 · noun

    A leguminous plant grown for its seeds, especially the chickpea.

22. Meaning 22 · noun

    The seeds of these plants.

23. Meaning 23 · noun

    Grandmother

How this word is used

• Everyday “We stored a thousand tons of grain for the winter.”
• General “a grain of wheat”
• General “The fields were planted with grain.”
• General “Cut along the grain of the wood.”
• General “a grain of salt”

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