Adjective : fine-grained sand; large-grained rice. ,wood and other grained materials. ,grained kid. ,tough-grained journalism. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : a grain of truth. ,You should work with or across the grain, but never against. ,sugar of fine grain. ,a stone of coarse grain. ,boiled to the grain. ,two brothers of similar grain. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : metal doors grained to resemble oak. From Dictionary.com.
Wood heavy, rather soft, tough and coarse-grained. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
Wood soft and close-grained, neither strong nor durable. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
Select ten good sized, straight rowed, deep-grained ears. From Wordnik.com. [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference
Wood is light, soft, close-grained, and takes a fine polish. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
Heartwood brown color, sapwood lighter shade, coarse-grained. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
Wood light, soft, not strong, and close-grained (see Fig. 14). From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
= Wood is cross-grained when its fibres are spiral or twisted. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
Wood light, soft, close-grained, and susceptible of high polish. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
This fellow was not only cross-grained, but absolutely malignant. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Wood light, soft, not strong, often quite tough and close-grained. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
Wood close-grained, compact structure, annual rings clearly marked. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
Wood heavy, strong, close-grained, durable in contact with the soil. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
The plate is grained as in the transfer process, and is then etched. From Wordnik.com. [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference
= Wood is coarse-grained when the annual rings are wide or far apart. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
Shale is a fine-grained, sedimentary rock formed from compacted clay. From Wordnik.com. [Buzzword: Shale Gas] Reference
She said this in no cross-grained way, but because she was so amazed. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret] Reference
= Wood is fine-grained when the annual rings are close together or narrow. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
A cork tree does not produce fine-grained cork till it is fifty years old. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
The wood is soft and light, coarse-grained, not unlike the "Swiss pine" of. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
Heartwood reddish; sapwood lighter color, straight-grained, compact structure. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
Wood of good quality, but light, fairly hard and strong, tough, close-grained. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
Heartwood reddish brown, sapwood ivory white, fine-grained, compact structure. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
The wood is close-grained, heavy, fairly hard and strong, of compact structure. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
And then he began to tremble too, though it was a finer-grained tremor than mine. From Wordnik.com. [No Great Magic] Reference
Wood very variable, usually coarse-grained and heavy, with very pronounced summer-wood. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
But the results were spectacular: detailed, fine-grained images with true, vivid colors. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Philip Neches: Elegy for Kodachrome] Reference
But government, as a general rule, does a very poor job at fine-grained, detailed decisions. From Wordnik.com. [...And Can We Make It Better?] Reference
"He is unpliant, self-sequestered, coarse-grained; beyond all conception easy and phlegmatic.". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
Heartwood white to brownish; sapwood lighter color; coarse-grained, compact structure, satiny. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
These same peculiarities enable oak to take a better finish than basswood or coarse-grained pine. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
Wood white, tinged with orange; heavy, hard, tough, and close-grained, works well and stands well. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
Its fruit is used as food, and its beautifully grained wood is highly valued for cabinet purposes. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
Rather close-grained, conspicuous medullary rays, and when quarter-sawn and well smoothed is very beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
Heartwood light reddish brown, sapwood nearly white, close-grained, compact structure, with a satiny luster. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
Wood heavy, tough, exceedingly close-grained, very strong and hard, durable in contact with the soil, and will take. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
Wood light, soft, satiny, close-grained, durable in contact with the soil, resembling and sometimes confounded with tulip tree. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
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