Gavel vs. Grain — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Gavel and Grain
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Gavel
A gavel is a small ceremonial mallet commonly made of hardwood, typically fashioned with a handle. It can be used to call for attention or to punctuate rulings and proclamations and is a symbol of the authority and right to act officially in the capacity of a presiding officer.
Grain
A grain is a small, hard, dry seed - with or without an attached hull or fruit layer - harvested for human or animal consumption. A grain crop is a grain-producing plant.
Gavel
A small hammer with which an auctioneer, a judge, or the chair of a meeting hits a surface to call for attention or order.
Grain
Wheat or any other cultivated cereal used as food.
Gavel
Bring (a hearing or person) to order by use of a gavel
He gavelled the convention to order
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Grain
A single fruit or seed of a cereal
A few grains of corn
Gavel
One that a judge or presiding officer raps to signal for order.
Grain
The smallest unit of weight in the troy and avoirdupois systems, equal to 1/5760 of a pound troy and 1/7000 of a pound avoirdupois (approximately 0.0648 gram).
Gavel
One that an auctioneer raps to mark the end of a transaction.
Grain
The longitudinal arrangement or pattern of fibres in wood, paper, etc.
He scored along the grain of the table with the knife
Gavel
A maul used by masons in fitting stones.
Grain
A person's character or natural tendency.
Gavel
Tribute or rent in ancient and medieval England.
Grain
Kermes or cochineal, or dye made from either of these.
Gavel
To bring about or compel by using a gavel
"The chairman ... tries to gavel the demonstration to an end" (New Yorker).
Grain
Give a rough surface or texture to
Her fingers were grained with chalk dust
Gavel
(historical) Rent.
Grain
Paint (especially furniture or interior surfaces) in imitation of the grain of wood or marble.
Gavel
(obsolete) Usury; interest on money.
Grain
Remove hair from (a hide).
Gavel
(historical) An old Saxon and Welsh form of tenure by which an estate passed, on the holder's death, to all the sons equally; also called gavelkind.
Grain
Feed (a horse) on grain.
Gavel
A wooden mallet, used by a courtroom judge, or by a committee chairman, struck against a sounding block to quieten those present, or by an auctioneer to accept the highest bid at auction.
Grain
A small, dry, one-seeded fruit of a cereal grass, having the fruit and the seed walls united
A single grain of wheat.
Gleaned the grains from the ground one at a time. Also called caryopsis.
Gavel
The legal system as a whole.
Grain
The fruits of cereal grasses especially after having been harvested, considered as a group
The grain was stored in a silo.
Gavel
A mason's setting maul.
Grain
A cereal grass
Wheat is a grain grown in Kansas.
Gavel
A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle.
Grain
Cereal grasses considered as a group
Grain is grown along the river.
Gavel
(transitive) To divide or distribute according to the gavel system.
Grain
A relatively small discrete particulate or crystalline mass
A grain of sand.
Gavel
To use a gavel.
The judge gavelled for order in the courtroom after the defendant burst out with a confession.
Grain
A small amount or the smallest amount possible
Hasn't a grain of sense.
Gavel
A gable.
Grain
(Aerospace) A mass of solid propellant.
Gavel
A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle.
Grain
Abbr. gr. A unit of weight in the US Customary System, an avoirdupois unit equal to 0.002285 ounce (0.065 gram).
Gavel
The mallet of the presiding officer in a legislative body, public assembly, court, masonic body, etc.
Grain
The markings, pattern, or texture of the fibrous tissue in wood
Cherry wood has a fine grain.
Gavel
A mason's setting maul.
Grain
The direction of such markings
Cut a board with the grain.
Gavel
Tribute; toll; custom. [Obs.] See Gabel.
Grain
The side of a hide or piece of leather from which the hair or fur has been removed.
Gavel
A small mallet used by a presiding officer or a judge
Grain
The pattern or markings on this side of leather.
Grain
The pattern produced, as in stone, by the arrangement of particulate constituents.
Grain
The relative size of the particles composing a substance or pattern
A coarse grain.
Grain
A painted, stamped, or printed design that imitates the pattern found in wood, leather, or stone.
Grain
The direction or texture of fibers in a woven fabric.
Grain
A state of fine crystallization.
Grain
Basic temperament or nature; disposition
It goes against my grain to ask for help.
Grain
An essential quality or characteristic
"Toughness as a virtue ... is, needless to say, fully embedded in the American grain" (Benjamin DeMott).
Grain
(Archaic) Color; tint.
Grain
To cause to form into grains; granulate.
Grain
To paint, stamp, or print with a design imitating the grain of wood, leather, or stone.
Grain
To give a granular or rough texture to.
Grain
To remove the hair or fur from (hides) in preparation for tanning.
Grain
To form grains
The corn began to grain.
Grain
(uncountable) The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
We stored a thousand tons of grain for the winter.
Grain
(uncountable) Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
Grain
(countable) A single seed of grass food crops.
A grain of wheat
Grains of oat
Grain
The crops from which grain is harvested.
The fields were planted with grain.
Grain
(uncountable) A linear texture of a material or surface.
Cut along the grain of the wood.
He doesn't like to shave against the grain.
Grain
(countable) A single particle of a substance.
A grain of sand
A grain of salt
Grain
(countable) Any of various small units of mass originally notionally based on grain's weight, variously standardized at different places and times, including
Grain
The English grain of 5760 troy pound or 7000 pound avoirdupois, now exactly 64.79891 mg.
Grain
The metric, carat, or pearl grain of 4 carat used for measuring precious stones and pearls, now exactly 50 mg.
Grain
(historical) The French grain of 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.
Grain
Any of various small units of length originally notionally based on a grain's width, variously standardized at different places and times.
Grain
The carat grain of 4 carat as a measure of gold purity, creating a 96-point scale between 0% and 100% purity.
Grain
(materials) A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
Grain
(rocketry) The solid piece of fuel in an individual solid-fuel rocket engine.
Grain
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.
Grain
The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
Grain
(in the plural) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called draff.
Grain
(botany) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock.
Grain
Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
Grain
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.
Grain
A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant.
Grain
A tine, prong, or fork.
Grain
One of the branches of a valley or river.
Grain
An iron fish spear or harpoon, with a number of points half-barbed inwardly.
Grain
A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
Grain
(founding) A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core.
Grain
To feed grain to.
Grain
(transitive) To make granular; to form into grains.
Grain
(intransitive) To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
Grain
To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
Grain
(tanning) To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
Grain
(tanning) To soften leather.
Grain
To yield fruit.
Grain
See Groan.
Grain
To paint in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc.
Grain
To form (powder, sugar, etc.) into grains.
Grain
To take the hair off (skins); to soften and raise the grain of (leather, etc.).
Grain
To yield fruit.
Grain
To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
Grain
A single small hard seed; a kernel, especially of those plants, like wheat, whose seeds are used for food.
Grain
The fruit of certain grasses which furnish the chief food of man, as corn, wheat, rye, oats, etc., or the plants themselves; - used collectively.
Storehouses crammed with grain.
Grain
Any small, hard particle, as of sand, sugar, salt, etc.; hence, any minute portion or particle; as, a grain of gunpowder, of pollen, of starch, of sense, of wit, etc.
I . . . with a grain of manhood well resolved.
Grain
The unit of the English system of weights; - so called because considered equal to the average of grains taken from the middle of the ears of wheat. 7,000 grains constitute the pound avoirdupois, and 5,760 grains the pound troy. A grain is equal to .0648 gram. See Gram.
Grain
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.
All in a robe of darkest grain.
Doing as the dyers do, who, having first dipped their silks in colors of less value, then give' them the last tincture of crimson in grain.
Grain
The composite particles of any substance; that arrangement of the particles of any body which determines its comparative roughness or hardness; texture; as, marble, sugar, sandstone, etc., of fine grain.
Hard box, and linden of a softer grain.
Grain
The direction, arrangement, or appearance of the fibers in wood, or of the strata in stone, slate, etc.
Knots, by the conflux of meeting sap,Infect the sound pine and divert his grainTortive and errant from his course of growth.
Grain
The fiber which forms the substance of wood or of any fibrous material.
Grain
The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
Grain
The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called draff.
Grain
Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
Brothers . . . not united in grain.
Grain
A sort of spice, the grain of paradise.
He cheweth grain and licorice,To smellen sweet.
The red roses flush up in her cheeks . . . Likce crimson dyed in grain.
Grain
A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant.
Grain
A tine, prong, or fork.
Grain
A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
Grain
A thin piece of metal, used in a mold to steady a core.
Grain
A small hard particle;
A grain of sand
Grain
Foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
Grain
Used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat
Grain
1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams
Grain
1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams
Grain
Dry seedlike fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
Grain
The direction or texture of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric;
Saw the board across the grain
Grain
Thoroughly work in;
His hands were grained with dirt
Grain
Paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood
Grain
Form into grains
Grain
Become granular
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