What is the meaning of Grain?

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

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

A single seed of grass food crops.

The crops from which grain is harvested.

A linear texture of a material or surface.

A single particle of a substance.

Any of various small units of mass originally notionally based on grain's weight, variously standardized at different places and times, including

  1. The English grain of 5760 troy pound or 7000 pound avoirdupois, now exactly 64.79891 mg.

    The English grain of 5760 troy pound or 7000 pound avoirdupois, now exactly 64.79891 mg.

    The metric, carat, or pearl grain of 4 carat used for measuring precious stones and pearls, now exactly 50 mg.

    The French grain of 9216 livre, equivalent to 53.11 mg at metricization and equal to exactly 54.25 mg from 18121839 as part of the mesures usuelles.

    Any of various small units of length originally notionally based on a grain's width, variously standardized at different places and times.

    The carat grain of 4 carat as a measure of gold purity, creating a 96-point scale between 0% and 100% purity.

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

    The solid piece of fuel in an individual solid-fuel rocket engine.

    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.

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

    The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum.

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

    Temper; natural disposition; inclination.

    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.

    To feed grain to.

    To make granular; to form into grains.

    To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.

    To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.

    To remove the hair or fat from a skin.

    To soften leather.

    To yield fruit.

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

    A tine, prong, or fork.

    1. One of the branches of a valley or river.
    2. An iron fish spear or harpoon, with a number of points half-barbed inwardly.
    3. A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
    4. An arm of a cross.

    One of the branches of a valley or river.

    An iron fish spear or harpoon, with a number of points half-barbed inwardly.

    A blade of a sword, knife, etc.

    An arm of a cross.

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

    A branch or arm of a stream, inlet, or sea.

    A fork in a river valley or ravine.

    The branch of a family; clan.

    The groin; crotch.

    The fangs of a tooth.

    grain

    a small amount, a bit

    squall, thunderstorm

    Alternative form of greynen

    grain (edible part of a cereal plant)

    A branch or bough.

    A stalk.

    A prong.

    An offshoot, branch, or member of anything

    An arm.

    A branch.

    A branch of a stream; the arm of a loch.

    Source: wiktionary.org