Grain

English

Noun

grain (pl. grains )

1. The harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley. (We stored a thousand tons of grain for the winter.)
2. A single seed of grain. (a grain of wheat)
3. The crops from which grain is harvested. (The fields were planted with grain.)
4. A linear texture of a material or surface. (Cut along the grain of the wood.)
5. A single particle of a substance. (a grain of sand, a grain of salt)
6. A very small unit of weight, equal to 1/480 of an ounce avoirdupois.

See: against the grain

Translations

• Breton: greun collective noun (1), greunenn f (2), suffix -enn for the collective nouns (5)
• Bulgarian: зърно n (1), зрънце n (2), частичка f (5), гран m (6)
• Czech: zrno n (1, 2), zrní n (1), zrnko n (2, 5), grán m (6)
• Dutch: graan n (1,3), korrel m (2,5)
• French: grain m (1)
• Interlingua: grano (1)
• Polish: ziarno n (1)
• Portuguese: grão m (1)
• Tamazight : aird m (1)