Dictionary entry

-grained

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Definition

grain / greÇn / n ၁။ (က) [U] ဂ်ံဳ၊ စပါး စသည္။ America's grain exports. See also WHOLE- GRAIN (ခ) [C] ဂ်ံဳ၊ စပါး စသည့္ ႏွံစားပင္တို႔၏ အေစ့အဆန္။ a few grains of rice. ❍ CEREAL ၂။ [C] (ဆား၊ သၾကား၊ သဲ) အပြင့္။ a grain of salt/ sand/ sugar. ၃။ [C] တစိုးတစိ။ There isn't a grain of (ie any) truth in it. ၄။ [C] ဂရိန္။ The analysis showed a few grains of arsenic in the solution. ၅။ [U] (က) သစ္သားအေၾကာ။ သစ္ေၾကာ။ cut a piece of wood along/ across the grain. (ခ) သစ္သား၊ ေက်ာက္ခဲ စသည္ ညက္ျခင္း၊ ၾကမ္းျခင္း။ wood of fine/ medium/ coarse grain. ❏ (be/ go) against the grain [ IDM ] စိတ္မေတြ႕။ ဘဝင္မက်။ It really goes against the grain to have to go into the office at weekends (ie I do not like it). ❏ -grained (forming compound adjs) (ၾကမ္းေသာ၊ ညက္ေသာ) အသား။ coarse-grained ❍ fine-grained. ❏ grainy adj (esp of photographs) အစက္ အေျပာက္ မ်ားျဖင့္ မႈန္ဝါးဝါး ျဖစ္ေသာ။ a grainy old black-and-white film.

Examples

  1. Bags of mixed grain
  2. Golden fields of grain
  3. A grain of rice
  4. [a grain of truth] : There was more than a grain of truth in what he’d said.
  5. There were deep cracks along the grain of the wood.