English words for 'Multiple types of grain, usually in processed form.'
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noun
- grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished
- annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper
- (uncountable) Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.
- (countable) A specific variety of this plant.
- (uncountable, slang, ethnic slur, humorous) The types of automobile modifications characteristic of a rice burner.
- (uncountable) The seeds of this plant used as food.
- (computing, slang) An instance of customization of a user interface.
- (now chiefly, dialectal, Scotland, Ireland) A twig or stick.
verb
- sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice
- (rare) To throw rice at a person (usually at a wedding).
- (computing, transitive) To customize the user interface of a computer system, e.g. a desktop environment. (derived from rice out)
- (intransitive) To harvest wild rice (Zizania spp.)
- (transitive) To squeeze through a ricer; to mash or make into rice-sized pieces (especially potatoes).
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adj
noun
- grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat, rice, rye, oats, maize, buckwheat, millet
- a breakfast food prepared from grain
- foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
- (uncountable) Breakfast cereal.
- (countable) A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains.
- (uncountable) The grains of such a grass.
noun
- grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour
- annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains
- a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white
- (uncountable) A light brown color, like that of wheat.
- (countable) Any of the several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery.
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of wheat bread
adj
verb
noun
- fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain
- Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
- Powder of other material.
- (US standards of identity) The food made by grinding and bolting cleaned wheat (not durum or red durum) until it meets specified levels of fineness, dryness, and freedom from bran and germ, also containing any of certain enzymes, ascorbic acid, and certain bleaching agents.
noun
- Ergotized rye or other grain.
- (transport) A short branch road of a motorway, freeway or major road.
- A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale to strip off the blubber.
- (figurative) Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.
- (architecture) The short wooden buttress of a post.
- (carpentry) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
- An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.
- The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor.
- (rail transport) A very short branch line of a railway line.
- (electronics) A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal.
- (shipbuilding) A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed.
- (shipbuilding) A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
- Roots, tree roots.
- (architecture) A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage.
- A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse. Often worn by, and emblematic of, the cowboy or the knight.
- (mining) A branch of a vein.
- A jab given with the spurs.
- A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
- Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into a city.
- (geology) A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.
- (botany) A short thin side shoot from a branch, especially one that bears fruit or, in conifers, the shoots that bear the leaves.
- A tern.
- tubular extension at the base of the corolla in some flowers
- a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something
- a sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward
- a railway line connected to a trunk line
- any sharply pointed projection
verb
- (transitive) To prod (especially a horse) on the side or flank, with the intent to urge motion or haste, to gig.
- (transitive) To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object
- To form a spur (senses 17-18 of the noun)
- (transitive) To put spurs on.
- (intransitive) To press forward; to travel in great haste.
- give heart or courage to
- incite or stimulate
- goad with spurs
- equip with spurs
- strike with a spur
verb
- form into grains
- (transitive) To make granular; to form into grains.
- paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood
- thoroughly work in
- become granular
- (transitive) To feed grain to.
- To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
- (tanning) To soften leather.
- To yield fruit.
- (tanning) To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
- (intransitive) To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
noun
- the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance)
- the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric
- the smallest possible unit of anything
- a cereal grass
- foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
- a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat
- 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams
- the side of leather from which the hair has been removed
- dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
- a relatively small granular particle of a substance
- 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams
- Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
- The metric, carat, or pearl grain of ¹⁄₄ carat used for measuring precious stones and pearls, now exactly 50 mg.
- An iron fish spear or harpoon, with a number of points half-barbed inwardly.
- (uncountable) A linear texture of a material or surface.
- (countable, uncountable) The crops from which grain is harvested.
- (photography, videography) 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.
- One of the branches of a valley or river.
- (botany) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock.
- (in the plural) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum.
- (historical) The French grain of ¹⁄₉₂₁₆ livre, equivalent to 53.11 mg at metricization and equal to exactly 54.25 mg from 1812–1839 as part of the mesures usuelles.
- (countable) A single particle of a substance.
- (dialectal, anatomy) The fangs of a tooth.
- (materials) A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
- (countable) A single seed of grass food crops.
- (dialectal, anatomy) The groin; crotch.
- A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant; an offshoot.
- (countable, chiefly historical) Any of various small units of length originally notionally based on a grain's width, variously standardized at different places and times.
- (uncountable) The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
- The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
- (dialectal) A fork in a river valley or ravine.
- A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
- (founding) A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core.
- (uncountable) Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
- (countable, historical) The carat grain of ¹⁄₄ carat as a measure of gold purity, creating a 96-point scale between 0% and 100% purity.
- An arm of a cross.
- 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.
- (dialectal) The branch of a family; clan.
- (astronautics) The solid piece of fuel in an individual solid-fuel rocket engine.
- The English grain of ¹⁄₅₇₆₀ troy pound or ¹⁄₇₀₀₀ pound avoirdupois, now exactly 64.79891 mg.
- (dialectal) A branch or arm of a stream, inlet, or sea.
noun
- The ground-up edible part of various grains, used as a basis of food or feed; either flour or a coarser blend than flour (usage varies).
- Any of various similarly granular materials prepared from other sources, such as bones or wood.
- (countable) Food served or eaten as a repast.
- (UK dialectal) A speck or spot.
- A part; a fragment; a portion.
- Any of various other granular or powdery materials, either ground by humans or occurring in nature, named figuratively after a resemblance to grain meal.
- (uncountable, informal) A break taken by a police officer in order to eat.
- (countable) Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity.
- any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times
- the food served and eaten at one time
- coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse
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noun
- A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.
- (botany) A powdery, pale yellow, crystalline secretion consisting of flavonoids in Primula and other species.
- A particular grade of wheat meal, commonly used as hot breakfast cereal in North America.
- Hot breakfast cereal made from prepared farina in milk.
- fine meal made from cereal grain especially wheat; often used as a cooked cereal or in puddings
noun
- the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal
- tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times
- ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food
- a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes
- whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn
- something sentimental or trite
- (Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region — wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland)
- A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands.
- (Commonwealth, but not Australia or New Zealand, uncountable) Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region.
- A small, hard particle.
- (Jamaica, MLE, slang, firearms, uncountable) Bullets, ammunition, charge and discharge of firearms.
- (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, uncountable) Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.
- (US, Canada) Something (e.g., acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion.
- (Internet, euphemistic) pornography; porn
- (Jamaica, slang, uncountable) Money.
- A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop.
- (veterinary medicine) Skin hyperplasia with underlying fibroma between both digits of cattle.
- (veterinary medicine) An inflammatory disease of a horse's hoof, at the caudal part of the sole.
- (uncountable) A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and refreezing, often in mountain spring conditions.
verb
- preserve with large-grained rock salt
- feed (cattle) with corn
- (US, Canada) To preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef.
- (US, Canada) To provide (an animal) with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed.
- (US, Canada) To granulate; to form (a substance) into grains.
- (Jamaica, MLE, slang) To shoot up with bullets as by a shotgun (corn).
noun
- a cereal grain (usually barley) that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially in brewing and distilling
- Malted grain (sprouted grain) (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise.
- a milkshake made with malt powder
- a lager of high alcohol content; by law it is considered too alcoholic to be sold as lager or beer
- Malt liquor, especially malt whisky.
- Maltose-rich sugar derived from malted grain.
- (US, informal) A milkshake with malted milk powder added for flavor.
verb
- convert grain into malt
- treat with malt or malt extract
- convert into malt
- turn into malt, become malt
- (intransitive) To become malt.
- (transitive) To convert a cereal grain into malt by causing it to sprout (by soaking in water) and then halting germination (by drying with hot air) in order to develop enzymes that can break down starches and proteins in the grain.
noun
- Such grinding, cutting, or shredding applied to grain to produce meal or flour.
- The surface or other physical result produced by such a process.
- A circular or random motion of a herd or a crowd.
- (machining) A type of machining in which a rotary cutter is moved through a toolpath to cut away material.
- Such cutting to produce millwork (finely finished lumber).
- The series of notches around the edge of a coin during minting so that it can be told if some of the metal from the edge is removed.
- corrugated edge of a coin
verb
noun
- grain ground into flour
- a member of the genus Fagopyrum; annual Asian plant with clusters of small pinkish white flowers and small edible triangular seeds which are used whole or ground into flour
- (derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur, US) Curly hair of a black person.
- (Western US) Any of the wild buckwheats in the genus Eriogonum.
- (slang) Pubic hair.
- (cooking) The fruit of this plant used as a pseudocereal.
- (slang) A slow and painful murder by the Mafia as a warning to others.
- An Asian plant, of the species Fagopyrum esculentum. [from 16th c.]
noun
- coarsely ground grain in the form of pellets (as for pet food)
- Something that has been kibbled, especially grain for use as animal feed.
- an iron bucket used for hoisting in wells or mining
- Any artificial animal feed in pellet form.
- An iron bucket used in mines for hoisting anything to the surface.
- (fandom slang) In the Transformers fandom, pieces of a toy or figure necessary for one mode, but appearing out of place or unnecessary in the other.
- (historical) A mallet used in the game of trap ball.
verb
noun
- A by-product of the grain milling process, which may include bran, husks, etc.
- A dead body; carrion.
- The internal organs of an animal (entrails or innards), used as food.
- That which is thrown away as worthless or unfit for use; refuse; rubbish.
- viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans
noun
- Any of the ingredients for making bread, especially as commodities in trade and especially the principal ones, namely, flour and meal or the grain with which to mill it (such as wheat, oats, rye, or any other cereal grain).
- flour or meal or grain used in baking bread
- Bread or breadlike baked goods of any sort.
- food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked
noun
- The formation of granules, or of cereal grains.
- (astronomy) A bright, transient granular marking on the Sun's photosphere.
- The attachment of granules of precious metal to underlying metal of jewellery.
- (medicine) Granulated tissue on the surface of a healing wound; granulation tissue.
- The forming of metals into granules by pouring them through a sieve into water while hot.
- (uncountable) The condition of being granulated.
- the act of forming something into granules or grains
- new connective tissue and tiny blood vessels that form on the surfaces of a wound during the healing process
noun
- food prepared from the husks of cereal grains
- broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting
- (ornithology) The European carrion crow.
- The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.
verb
verb
- store grain
- acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions
- assemble or get together
- (often figurative) To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact
- (rare) To gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.
- To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.
- To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.
noun
noun
- coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop
- soldiers who are regarded as expendable in the face of artillery fire
- (slang, drafting, design) Tracing paper.
- (crosswording) The text to be operated on (anagrammed, etc.) within a clue.
- (historical) A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities, generally around 1000 kg.
- (figurative) Stuff; material; something that serves as inspiration or encouragement, especially for satire or humour.
- People considered to have negligible value and easily available or expendable.
- Food for animals; that which is fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, such as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.
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noun
adj
adv
noun
- The grass Secale cereale from which the grain is obtained.
- A disease of hawks.
- A grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder.
- (US, Canada, uncountable, countable) Ellipsis of rye whiskey, whiskey made mainly or wholly from rye grain.
- (uncountable, countable) Ellipsis of rye bread.
- (loosely, sometimes proscribed) Ryegrass, any of the species of Lolium.
- (loosely, sometimes proscribed) Caraway (from the mistaken assumption that the whole seeds, often used to season rye bread, are the rye itself)
- (US, Canada, countable) A drink (serving) of rye whiskey.
- hardy annual cereal grass widely cultivated in northern Europe where its grain is the chief ingredient of black bread and in North America for forage and soil improvement
- whiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt
- the seed of the cereal grass
noun
- grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished
- annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper
- (uncountable) Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.
- (countable) A specific variety of this plant.
- (uncountable, slang, ethnic slur, humorous) The types of automobile modifications characteristic of a rice burner.
- (uncountable) The seeds of this plant used as food.
- (computing, slang) An instance of customization of a user interface.
- (now chiefly, dialectal, Scotland, Ireland) A twig or stick.
verb
- sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice
- (rare) To throw rice at a person (usually at a wedding).
- (computing, transitive) To customize the user interface of a computer system, e.g. a desktop environment. (derived from rice out)
- (intransitive) To harvest wild rice (Zizania spp.)
- (transitive) To squeeze through a ricer; to mash or make into rice-sized pieces (especially potatoes).
noun
- grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour
- annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains
- a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white
- (uncountable) A light brown color, like that of wheat.
- (countable) Any of the several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery.
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of wheat bread
adj
noun
- Ergotized rye or other grain.
- (transport) A short branch road of a motorway, freeway or major road.
- A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale to strip off the blubber.
- (figurative) Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.
- (architecture) The short wooden buttress of a post.
- (carpentry) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
- An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.
- The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor.
- (rail transport) A very short branch line of a railway line.
- (electronics) A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal.
- (shipbuilding) A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed.
- (shipbuilding) A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
- Roots, tree roots.
- (architecture) A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage.
- A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse. Often worn by, and emblematic of, the cowboy or the knight.
- (mining) A branch of a vein.
- A jab given with the spurs.
- A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
- Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into a city.
- (geology) A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.
- (botany) A short thin side shoot from a branch, especially one that bears fruit or, in conifers, the shoots that bear the leaves.
- A tern.
- tubular extension at the base of the corolla in some flowers
- a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something
- a sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward
- a railway line connected to a trunk line
- any sharply pointed projection
verb
- (transitive) To prod (especially a horse) on the side or flank, with the intent to urge motion or haste, to gig.
- (transitive) To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object
- To form a spur (senses 17-18 of the noun)
- (transitive) To put spurs on.
- (intransitive) To press forward; to travel in great haste.
- give heart or courage to
- incite or stimulate
- goad with spurs
- equip with spurs
- strike with a spur
noun
- The ground-up edible part of various grains, used as a basis of food or feed; either flour or a coarser blend than flour (usage varies).
- Any of various similarly granular materials prepared from other sources, such as bones or wood.
- (countable) Food served or eaten as a repast.
- (UK dialectal) A speck or spot.
- A part; a fragment; a portion.
- Any of various other granular or powdery materials, either ground by humans or occurring in nature, named figuratively after a resemblance to grain meal.
- (uncountable, informal) A break taken by a police officer in order to eat.
- (countable) Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity.
- any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times
- the food served and eaten at one time
- coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse
verb
adj
noun
- grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat, rice, rye, oats, maize, buckwheat, millet
- a breakfast food prepared from grain
- foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
- (uncountable) Breakfast cereal.
- (countable) A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains.
- (uncountable) The grains of such a grass.
noun
- A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.
- (botany) A powdery, pale yellow, crystalline secretion consisting of flavonoids in Primula and other species.
- A particular grade of wheat meal, commonly used as hot breakfast cereal in North America.
- Hot breakfast cereal made from prepared farina in milk.
- fine meal made from cereal grain especially wheat; often used as a cooked cereal or in puddings
noun
- the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal
- tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times
- ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food
- a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes
- whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn
- something sentimental or trite
- (Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region — wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland)
- A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands.
- (Commonwealth, but not Australia or New Zealand, uncountable) Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region.
- A small, hard particle.
- (Jamaica, MLE, slang, firearms, uncountable) Bullets, ammunition, charge and discharge of firearms.
- (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, uncountable) Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.
- (US, Canada) Something (e.g., acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion.
- (Internet, euphemistic) pornography; porn
- (Jamaica, slang, uncountable) Money.
- A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop.
- (veterinary medicine) Skin hyperplasia with underlying fibroma between both digits of cattle.
- (veterinary medicine) An inflammatory disease of a horse's hoof, at the caudal part of the sole.
- (uncountable) A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and refreezing, often in mountain spring conditions.
verb
- preserve with large-grained rock salt
- feed (cattle) with corn
- (US, Canada) To preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef.
- (US, Canada) To provide (an animal) with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed.
- (US, Canada) To granulate; to form (a substance) into grains.
- (Jamaica, MLE, slang) To shoot up with bullets as by a shotgun (corn).
noun
- a cereal grain (usually barley) that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially in brewing and distilling
- Malted grain (sprouted grain) (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise.
- a milkshake made with malt powder
- a lager of high alcohol content; by law it is considered too alcoholic to be sold as lager or beer
- Malt liquor, especially malt whisky.
- Maltose-rich sugar derived from malted grain.
- (US, informal) A milkshake with malted milk powder added for flavor.
verb
- convert grain into malt
- treat with malt or malt extract
- convert into malt
- turn into malt, become malt
- (intransitive) To become malt.
- (transitive) To convert a cereal grain into malt by causing it to sprout (by soaking in water) and then halting germination (by drying with hot air) in order to develop enzymes that can break down starches and proteins in the grain.
noun
- Such grinding, cutting, or shredding applied to grain to produce meal or flour.
- The surface or other physical result produced by such a process.
- A circular or random motion of a herd or a crowd.
- (machining) A type of machining in which a rotary cutter is moved through a toolpath to cut away material.
- Such cutting to produce millwork (finely finished lumber).
- The series of notches around the edge of a coin during minting so that it can be told if some of the metal from the edge is removed.
- corrugated edge of a coin
verb
noun
- grain ground into flour
- a member of the genus Fagopyrum; annual Asian plant with clusters of small pinkish white flowers and small edible triangular seeds which are used whole or ground into flour
- (derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur, US) Curly hair of a black person.
- (Western US) Any of the wild buckwheats in the genus Eriogonum.
- (slang) Pubic hair.
- (cooking) The fruit of this plant used as a pseudocereal.
- (slang) A slow and painful murder by the Mafia as a warning to others.
- An Asian plant, of the species Fagopyrum esculentum. [from 16th c.]
noun
- coarsely ground grain in the form of pellets (as for pet food)
- Something that has been kibbled, especially grain for use as animal feed.
- an iron bucket used for hoisting in wells or mining
- Any artificial animal feed in pellet form.
- An iron bucket used in mines for hoisting anything to the surface.
- (fandom slang) In the Transformers fandom, pieces of a toy or figure necessary for one mode, but appearing out of place or unnecessary in the other.
- (historical) A mallet used in the game of trap ball.
verb
verb
noun
- fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain
- Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
- Powder of other material.
- (US standards of identity) The food made by grinding and bolting cleaned wheat (not durum or red durum) until it meets specified levels of fineness, dryness, and freedom from bran and germ, also containing any of certain enzymes, ascorbic acid, and certain bleaching agents.
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- A by-product of the grain milling process, which may include bran, husks, etc.
- A dead body; carrion.
- The internal organs of an animal (entrails or innards), used as food.
- That which is thrown away as worthless or unfit for use; refuse; rubbish.
- viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans
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- Any of the ingredients for making bread, especially as commodities in trade and especially the principal ones, namely, flour and meal or the grain with which to mill it (such as wheat, oats, rye, or any other cereal grain).
- flour or meal or grain used in baking bread
- Bread or breadlike baked goods of any sort.
- food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked
noun
- The formation of granules, or of cereal grains.
- (astronomy) A bright, transient granular marking on the Sun's photosphere.
- The attachment of granules of precious metal to underlying metal of jewellery.
- (medicine) Granulated tissue on the surface of a healing wound; granulation tissue.
- The forming of metals into granules by pouring them through a sieve into water while hot.
- (uncountable) The condition of being granulated.
- the act of forming something into granules or grains
- new connective tissue and tiny blood vessels that form on the surfaces of a wound during the healing process
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- food prepared from the husks of cereal grains
- broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting
- (ornithology) The European carrion crow.
- The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.
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- coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop
- soldiers who are regarded as expendable in the face of artillery fire
- (slang, drafting, design) Tracing paper.
- (crosswording) The text to be operated on (anagrammed, etc.) within a clue.
- (historical) A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities, generally around 1000 kg.
- (figurative) Stuff; material; something that serves as inspiration or encouragement, especially for satire or humour.
- People considered to have negligible value and easily available or expendable.
- Food for animals; that which is fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, such as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.
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- The grass Secale cereale from which the grain is obtained.
- A disease of hawks.
- A grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder.
- (US, Canada, uncountable, countable) Ellipsis of rye whiskey, whiskey made mainly or wholly from rye grain.
- (uncountable, countable) Ellipsis of rye bread.
- (loosely, sometimes proscribed) Ryegrass, any of the species of Lolium.
- (loosely, sometimes proscribed) Caraway (from the mistaken assumption that the whole seeds, often used to season rye bread, are the rye itself)
- (US, Canada, countable) A drink (serving) of rye whiskey.
- hardy annual cereal grass widely cultivated in northern Europe where its grain is the chief ingredient of black bread and in North America for forage and soil improvement
- whiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt
- the seed of the cereal grass
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- fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain
- Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
- Powder of other material.
- (US standards of identity) The food made by grinding and bolting cleaned wheat (not durum or red durum) until it meets specified levels of fineness, dryness, and freedom from bran and germ, also containing any of certain enzymes, ascorbic acid, and certain bleaching agents.
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- form into grains
- (transitive) To make granular; to form into grains.
- paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood
- thoroughly work in
- become granular
- (transitive) To feed grain to.
- To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
- (tanning) To soften leather.
- To yield fruit.
- (tanning) To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
- (intransitive) To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
noun
- the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance)
- the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric
- the smallest possible unit of anything
- a cereal grass
- foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
- a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat
- 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams
- the side of leather from which the hair has been removed
- dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
- a relatively small granular particle of a substance
- 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams
- Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
- The metric, carat, or pearl grain of ¹⁄₄ carat used for measuring precious stones and pearls, now exactly 50 mg.
- An iron fish spear or harpoon, with a number of points half-barbed inwardly.
- (uncountable) A linear texture of a material or surface.
- (countable, uncountable) The crops from which grain is harvested.
- (photography, videography) 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.
- One of the branches of a valley or river.
- (botany) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock.
- (in the plural) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum.
- (historical) The French grain of ¹⁄₉₂₁₆ livre, equivalent to 53.11 mg at metricization and equal to exactly 54.25 mg from 1812–1839 as part of the mesures usuelles.
- (countable) A single particle of a substance.
- (dialectal, anatomy) The fangs of a tooth.
- (materials) A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
- (countable) A single seed of grass food crops.
- (dialectal, anatomy) The groin; crotch.
- A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant; an offshoot.
- (countable, chiefly historical) Any of various small units of length originally notionally based on a grain's width, variously standardized at different places and times.
- (uncountable) The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
- The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
- (dialectal) A fork in a river valley or ravine.
- A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
- (founding) A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core.
- (uncountable) Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
- (countable, historical) The carat grain of ¹⁄₄ carat as a measure of gold purity, creating a 96-point scale between 0% and 100% purity.
- An arm of a cross.
- 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.
- (dialectal) The branch of a family; clan.
- (astronautics) The solid piece of fuel in an individual solid-fuel rocket engine.
- The English grain of ¹⁄₅₇₆₀ troy pound or ¹⁄₇₀₀₀ pound avoirdupois, now exactly 64.79891 mg.
- (dialectal) A branch or arm of a stream, inlet, or sea.
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- store grain
- acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions
- assemble or get together
- (often figurative) To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact
- (rare) To gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.
- To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.
- To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.
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- a cereal grain (usually barley) that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially in brewing and distilling
- Malted grain (sprouted grain) (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise.
- a milkshake made with malt powder
- a lager of high alcohol content; by law it is considered too alcoholic to be sold as lager or beer
- Malt liquor, especially malt whisky.
- Maltose-rich sugar derived from malted grain.
- (US, informal) A milkshake with malted milk powder added for flavor.
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- convert grain into malt
- treat with malt or malt extract
- convert into malt
- turn into malt, become malt
- (intransitive) To become malt.
- (transitive) To convert a cereal grain into malt by causing it to sprout (by soaking in water) and then halting germination (by drying with hot air) in order to develop enzymes that can break down starches and proteins in the grain.
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- grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat, rice, rye, oats, maize, buckwheat, millet
- a breakfast food prepared from grain
- foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
- (uncountable) Breakfast cereal.
- (countable) A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains.
- (uncountable) The grains of such a grass.