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📖 Определения и значения для слова grain

📒 the small hard seeds of food plants such as wheat, rice, etc.; a single seed of such a plant

  • Russia sold 12 million tons of grain abroad last year.
  • America’s grain exports
  • The journal reports that eating whole grains protects against diabetes.

📒 a small hard piece of particular substances

  • a grain of salt/sand/sugar
  • I got a grain of sand in my eye.

📒 a very small amount

  • There isn't a grain of truth in those rumours.
  • If he had a grain of sensitivity he wouldn't have asked her about her divorce.

📒 a small unit of weight, equal to 0.00143 of a pound or 0.0648 of a gram, used for example for weighing medicines

  • The analysis showed a few grains of arsenic in the solution.

📒 the natural direction of lines in wood, cloth, etc. or of layers of rock; the pattern of lines that you can see

  • along/across the grain to cut a piece of wood along/across the grain
  • This wood has a beautiful natural grain.

📒 how rough or smooth a surface feels

  • wood of coarse/fine grain

📒 to be or do something different from what is normal or natural

  • It really goes against the grain to have to work on a Sunday.

📒 used to warn somebody not to believe something completely

  • If I were you, I'd take everything he says with a grain of salt.
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