Synonyms of the word

grain

• n. (uncountable) The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
• n. (uncountable) Similar seeds from any food crop, eg buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
• n. (countable) A single seed of grass food crops.
• n. (countable, uncountable) The crops from which grain is harvested.
• n. (uncountable) A linear texture of a material or surface.
• n. (countable) A single particle of a substance.
• n. (countable) A very small unit of weight, in England equal to 1/480 of an ounce troy, 0.0648 grams or,…
• n. (countable) A former unit of gold purity, also known as carat grain, equal to ¹⁄₄ "carat" (karat).
• n. (materials) A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
• n. A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson,…
• n. The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
• n. (in the plural) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called…
• n. (botany) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock.
• n. Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
• v. To feed grain to.
• v. (transitive) To make granular; to form into grains.
• v. (intransitive) To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
• v. To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
• v. (tanning) To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
• v. (tanning) To soften leather.
• v. To yield fruit.
• n. A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant.
• n. A tine, prong, or fork.
• n. (founding) A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core.

atom

• n. (chemistry, physics) The smallest possible amount of matter which still retains its identity as a chemical…
• n. (history of science) A hypothetical particle posited by Greek philosophers as an ultimate and indivisible…
• n. (now generally regarded figuratively) The smallest, indivisible constituent part or unit of something.
• n. (now historical) The smallest medieval unit of time, equal to fifteen ninety-fourths of a second.
• n. A mote of dust in a sunbeam.
• n. A very small amount; a whit.
• n. (computing, programming, Lisp) An individual number or symbol, as opposed to a list; a scalar value.
• n. (mathematics, algebra) A non-zero member of a Boolean algebra that is not a union of any other elements.
• n. (mathematics, set theory) An element of a set that is not itself a set; an urelement.

caryopsis

• n. A type of fruit in which the fruit skin is stuck to the seed coat; especially the grain of a cereal.

cereal

• n. (countable) A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains.
• n. (uncountable) The grains of such a grass.
• n. (uncountable) Breakfast cereal.
• n. (countable) A particular type of breakfast cereal.

corpuscle

• n. A minute particle; an atom; a molecule.
• n. A protoplasmic animal cell; especially, such as float free, like blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles; or…

deform

• v. (transitive) To change the form of, negatively.
• v. (transitive) To change the looks of, negatively; to disfigure.
• v. (transitive) To mar the character of.
• v. (transitive) To alter the shape of by stress.
• v. (intransitive) To become misshapen or changed in shape.
• adj. (obsolete) Deformed, misshapen.

foodstuff

• n. A material that may be used as food.

form

• n. (heading, physical) To do with shape.
• n. (social) To do with structure or procedure.
• n. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
• n. Level of performance.
• n. (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape…
• n. The den or home of a hare.
• n. (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
• n. (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
• n. (printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured…
• n. (geometry) A quantic.
• n. (sports, fitness) A specific way of performing a movement.
• v. (transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
• v. (transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
• v. (intransitive) To take shape.
• v. To put together or bring into being; assemble.
• v. (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
• v. (transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
• v. To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
• v. To provide (a hare) with a form.
• v. (electrical, historical, transitive) To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage…

granulate

• v. (transitive) To segment into tiny grains or particles.
• v. (intransitive) To collect or be formed into grains.
• adj. Consisting of, or resembling, grains; crystallized in grains; granular.
• adj. Having numerous small elevations, like shagreen.

ingrain

• v. To make something deeply part of something else, either literally or figuratively.
• adj. Dyed with grain, or kermes.
• adj. Dyed before manufacture; said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought;…
• n. An ingrain fabric, such as a carpet.

molecule

• n. (chemistry) The smallest particle of a specific element or compound that retains the chemical properties…
• n. A tiny amount.

mote

• n. A small particle; a speck.
• n. A tiny computer for remote sensing. Also known as smartdust.
• v. (now archaic) May or might.
• v. (obsolete) Must.
• v. (now archaic) Forming subjunctive expressions of wish: may.
• n. (obsolete) A meeting for discussion.
• n. (obsolete) A body of persons who meet for discussion, especially about the management of affairs.
• n. (obsolete) A place of meeting for discussion.

paint

• n. A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds…
• n. (in the plural) A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting…
• n. (basketball, slang) The free-throw lane, construed with the.
• n. (uncountable, paintball, slang) Paintballs.
• n. (poker, slang) A face card (king, queen, or jack).
• n. (computing, attributive) Graphics drawn using an input device, not scanned or generated.
• n. Makeup.
• v. (transitive) To apply paint to.
• v. (transitive) To apply in the manner that paint is applied.
• v. (transitive) To cover (something) with spots of colour, like paint.
• v. (transitive) To create (an image) with paints.
• v. (intransitive) To practise the art of painting pictures.
• v. (transitive, computing) To draw an element in a graphical user interface.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To depict or portray.
• v. (intransitive) To color one's face by way of beautifying it.
• v. (transitive, military, slang) To direct a radar beam toward.

particle

• n. A very small piece of matter, a fragment; especially, the smallest possible part of something.
• n. (linguistics, sensu lato) A part of speech which cannot be inflected: an adverb, preposition, conjunction…
• n. (linguistics, sensu stricto) A word that has a particular grammatical function but does not obviously…
• n. (physics) Any of various physical objects making up the constituent parts of an atom; an elementary particle…

penetrate

• v. To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.
• v. (figuratively) To achieve understanding of, despite some obstacle; to comprehend; to understand.
• v. To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to move deeply.
• v. To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.
• v. To insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina or anus.

perforate

• v. to pierce; to penetrate.
• v. to make a line of holes in a thin material to allow separation at the line.
• adj. (philately, biology) perforated.

seed

• n. (countable) A fertilized grain, initially encased in a fruit, which may grow into a mature plant.
• n. (countable, botany) A fertilized ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
• n. (uncountable) An amount of fertilized grain that cannot be readily counted.
• n. (uncountable) Semen.
• n. (countable) A precursor.
• n. (countable) The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the…
• n. (now rare) Offspring, descendants, progeny.
• n. Race; generation; birth.
• v. (transitive) To plant or sow an area with seeds.
• v. To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
• v. (transitive) To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.
• v. (sports, gaming) To allocate a seeding to a competitor.
• v. (Internet, transitive) To leave (files) available for others to download through BitTorrent.
• v. To be able to compete (especially in a quarter-final/semi-final/final).
• v. To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.
• v. (dialectal) simple past tense and past participle of see.

speck

• n. (countable) A tiny spot, especially of dirt etc.
• n. A very small thing; a particle; a whit.
• n. A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma (Doration) stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States.
• v. (transitive) To mark with specks; to speckle.
• n. Fat; lard; fat meat.
• n. (uncountable) A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol.
• n. The blubber of whales or other marine mammals.
• n. The fat of the hippopotamus.

texture

• n. The feel or shape of a surface or substance; the smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. of something.
• n. (art) The quality given to a work of art by the composition and interaction of its parts.
• n. (computer graphics) An image applied to a polygon to create the appearance of a surface.
• n. (obsolete) The act or art of weaving.
• n. (obsolete) Something woven; a woven fabric; a web.
• n. (biology, obsolete) A tissue.
• v. to create or apply a texture.