🇬🇧 en fr 🇫🇷

grain noun

  /ɡɹeɪn/
  • (uncountable) The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
  • (countable) A single seed of grass food crops.
  • (uncountable) A linear texture of a material or surface.
  • (countable) A single particle of a substance.
  • (countable) Any of various small units of mass originally notionally based on grain's weight, variously standardized at different places and times, including
 grain

grain verb

  /ɡɹeɪn/
  • (transitive) To make granular; to form into grains.
 grainer, grener
  • (tanning) To soften leather.
 tanner

grained adjective

  • Having a grain or grains.
 granuleux
against the grain
à contre-courant, à contre-cœur, à son corps défendant, à contre-fil
with a grain of salt
avec des pincettes
Grain Coast
Côte des Graines
Isle of Grain
Isle of Grain
end grain
bois de bout
ancient grain
grain ancien
puffed grain
céréale soufflée
grain boundary
joint de grain
fine grain print
marron

🇫🇷 fr en 🇬🇧

grain noun {m}

  /ɡʁɛ̃/
  • Fruit et semence des céréales contenu dans l’épi
 grain
  • (La Réunion) (Par analogie) Sous les tropiques, désigne les légumes secs (haricots rouges ou blancs, lentilles…)
 grain, granule
speck
grain de beauté
mole, beauty mark, beauty spot
grain de sable dans l’engrenage
snag
séparer le bon grain de l’ivraie
separate the wheat from the chaff
grain de sel
two cents, two pennies’ worth
Isle of Grain
Isle of Grain
grain de poivre
peppercorn
avoir un grain
have a screw loose
donner du grain à moudre
give grist to the mill, give something to chew over
veiller au grain
look out for squalls
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