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. 

I'm a faux painter and wood graining is the EASIEST thing to do!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vigas] Reference

(iii) And, more importantly, it cant handle unstructured coarse-graining, which is the heart of our multi-scale scheme.    From Wordnik.com.  [iMechanica - Comments] Reference

"graining," it becomes unmitigated nonsense, -- yes, and worse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homes and How to Make Them] Reference

Glycerol contained waste waters from graining out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 9] Reference

This is a coarse graining over quantum gravity states.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arrow of Time FAQ] Reference

I could see the graining of the marble through the silk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rogue Of Gor]

Just a word on the coarse-graining Steve M. refers to above.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Second Look at USHCN Classification « Climate Audit] Reference

While it is soaking, you can prepare your “graining” tools.    From Wordnik.com.  [The million dollar question: what is a machacador? « Interactive Dig El Carrizal – Rescuing a Mesoamerican Site] Reference

Coarse graining loses information by reducing the number of variables.    From Wordnik.com.  [Assessing Causality] Reference

“Common” is the cheapest, since it is full of knots, curls, and graining.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Avoid Housework] Reference

There will be a little bit of graining there, and you're going to even this out.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 14, 2009] Reference

The amount of salt required for "graining out" varies with the raw material used.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Handbook of Soap Manufacture] Reference

It is claimed that graining thereby is more rapid and better than is now possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891] Reference

There seem to be failures of transitivity that cannot be resolved by fine-graining.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metaphysics of Causation] Reference

As a rule, strong contrasts between the ground and the graining color should be avoided.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American, Volume XXIV., No. 12, March 18, 1871 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference

What this does is to start the process of coarse graining the quantum states of gravity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arrow of Time FAQ] Reference

HOLMES: Well, firefighters are graining ground on a large wildfires in southern California.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 6, 2008] Reference

The course graining of these metric configurations leads to an energy uncertainty functional.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dark Matter: Still Dark.] Reference

They are low by cold process, middle by semi-hot and great by hot processing with graining out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 9] Reference

I too have had trouble finding the graining tool, so I put these on the backburner for a while.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martha Stewart's Almond-Hazelnut Cupcakes with Faux-Bois Toppers] Reference

And at this point in time the Taliban, they are gaining confidence and they are graining ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 7, 2009] Reference

She could smell the scent of his shampoo, his soap; she could see the male graining of his skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Cure For Love]

The coarse graining contains information about what basis you are using to characterize the entropy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arrow of Time FAQ] Reference

Entropy is a entirely a product of coarse graining, and there is not just one possible coarse graining.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arrow of Time FAQ] Reference

The superintendent found an interesting piece of graining on his desk, top and followed it with his finger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frost at Christmas]

How we do the coarse-graining to define which microstates are macroscopically equivalent is a classic question.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arrow of Time FAQ] Reference

The right point of time to take it away from the fire may be ascertained by cooling and graining a small quantity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

We were cross-graining them to stay parallel to the river, but not so close to the water that we left sign in the mud.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bravo-Two-Zero]

It seemed to be made of curves, with no straight lines at all, and the wood was polished to bring out strange graining.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Hunt]

At the end of this operation practice, the graining out consisting in adding salted water or humid salt, must be carry out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 4] Reference

The tallow is thoroughly saponified first, and the graining is performed by the aid of caustic soda lye in preference to salt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Handbook of Soap Manufacture] Reference

The United States has failed to protect its auto industry graining free, unfettered access by foreign automakers to our market.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 25, 2006] Reference

If the sugar is to be made into cakes it requires to be boiled longer than if intended for graining in tubs, as is the more common form.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886] Reference

Besides cleaning the stables and "graining-up" for the horses, the day of the stable police was spent in miscellaneous jobs, which Sergeant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces] Reference