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English

Etymology
From OF.

Pronunciation
IPA|/gɹeɪn/
audio|en-us-grain.ogg|Audio (US)
rhymes|eɪn

Noun
en-noun|s|-

1. uncountable The harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.

#:We stored a thousand tons of grain for the winter.

1. countable A single seed of grain.

#:a grain of wheat

1. context|countable|uncountable The crops from which grain is harvested.

#:The fields were planted with grain.

1. uncountable A linear texture of a material or surface.

#:Cut along the grain of the wood.

1. countable A single particle of a substance.

#:a grain of sand
#:a grain of salt

1. uncountable 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. 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.
2. (materials) a region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction

Derived terms
against the grain
grosgrain

Translations
trans-top|The harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
Chinese:
:Mandarin: zh-ts|糧�|粮� (liángshí)
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Albanian: drithë f
Basque: ale
Breton: greun collective noun (1), greunenn f (2), suffix -enn for the collective nouns (5)
Bulgarian: з��но n (1), з��н�е n (2), �а��и�ка f (5), г�ан m (6)
Catalan: gra m
Croatian: zrno n
Czech: zrno n (1, 2), zrní n (1), zrnko n (2, 5), grán m (6)
Dutch: graan n (1,3), korrel m (2,5)
Esperanto: greno
Finnish: jyvä, vilja
French: grain m (1)
German: Korn (1, 2, 3, 5); Getreide (1, 3); Maserung (4), Strich (4); Gran (6)
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Hungarian: gabona
Interlingua: grano (1)
Italian: grano m
Latin: granum n
Old English: corn#Old English|corn (1,2,5)
Polish: ziarno n (1)
Portuguese: grão m (1)
Romanian: grâu f and m
Scottish Gaelic: gràinne f
Slovak: zrno n
Slovenian: zrno n
Spanish: grano m
Tamazight: aird m (1)
Telugu: �ి�� (giMja)
Turkish: tara

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