Grain vs. Grass — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Grain and Grass
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Definitions
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.
Grass➦
A member of the grass family.
Grain➦
Wheat or any other cultivated cereal used as food.
Grass➦
The members of the grass family considered as a group.
Grain➦
A single fruit or seed of a cereal
A few grains of corn
Grass➦
Any of various plants having slender leaves similar to those of a grass.
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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).
Grass➦
Ground, as on a lawn, that is covered with grass or similar plants.
Grain➦
The longitudinal arrangement or pattern of fibres in wood, paper, etc.
He scored along the grain of the table with the knife
Grass➦
Grazing land; pasture.
Grain➦
A person's character or natural tendency.
Grass➦
(Slang) Marijuana.
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Grain➦
Kermes or cochineal, or dye made from either of these.
Grass➦
(Electronics) Small variations in amplitude of an oscilloscope display caused by electrical noise.
Grain➦
Give a rough surface or texture to
Her fingers were grained with chalk dust
Grass➦
Chiefly British Slang An informer.
Grain➦
Paint (especially furniture or interior surfaces) in imitation of the grain of wood or marble.
Grass➦
To cover with grass.
Grain➦
Remove hair from (a hide).
Grass➦
To grow grass on.
Grain➦
Feed (a horse) on grain.
Grass➦
To feed (livestock) with grass.
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.
Grass➦
To become covered with grass.
Grain➦
The fruits of cereal grasses especially after having been harvested, considered as a group
The grain was stored in a silo.
Grass➦
To graze.
Grain➦
A cereal grass
Wheat is a grain grown in Kansas.
Grass➦
Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
Grain➦
Cereal grasses considered as a group
Grain is grown along the river.
Grass➦
(countable) Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
Grain➦
A relatively small discrete particulate or crystalline mass
A grain of sand.
Grass➦
(uncountable) A lawn.
Grain➦
A small amount or the smallest amount possible
Hasn't a grain of sense.
Grass➦
Marijuana.
Grain➦
(Aerospace) A mass of solid propellant.
Grass➦
An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
What just happened must remain secret. Don't be a grass.
Grain➦
Abbr. gr. A unit of weight in the US Customary System, an avoirdupois unit equal to 0.002285 ounce (0.065 gram).
Grass➦
Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
Grain➦
The markings, pattern, or texture of the fibrous tissue in wood
Cherry wood has a fine grain.
Grass➦
Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
Grain➦
The direction of such markings
Cut a board with the grain.
Grass➦
The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.
Grain➦
The side of a hide or piece of leather from which the hair or fur has been removed.
Grass➦
That which is transitory.
Grain➦
The pattern or markings on this side of leather.
Grass➦
Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".
Grain➦
The pattern produced, as in stone, by the arrangement of particulate constituents.
Grass➦
(mining) The surface of a mine.
Grain➦
The relative size of the particles composing a substance or pattern
A coarse grain.
Grass➦
(transitive) To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
Grain➦
A painted, stamped, or printed design that imitates the pattern found in wood, leather, or stone.
Grass➦
To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
Thesaurus:rat out
Grain➦
The direction or texture of fibers in a woven fabric.
Grass➦
(transitive) To cover with grass or with turf.
Grain➦
A state of fine crystallization.
Grass➦
(transitive) To feed with grass.
Grain➦
Basic temperament or nature; disposition
It goes against my grain to ask for help.
Grass➦
(transitive) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
Grain➦
An essential quality or characteristic
"Toughness as a virtue ... is, needless to say, fully embedded in the American grain" (Benjamin DeMott).
Grass➦
(transitive) To bring to the grass or ground; to land.
Grain➦
(Archaic) Color; tint.
Grass➦
Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture.
Grain➦
To cause to form into grains; granulate.
Grass➦
An endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in pairs, and the seed single.
Grain➦
To paint, stamp, or print with a design imitating the grain of wood, leather, or stone.
Grass➦
The season of fresh grass; spring.
Two years old next grass.
Grain➦
To give a granular or rough texture to.
Grass➦
Metaphorically used for what is transitory.
Surely the people is grass.
Grain➦
To remove the hair or fur from (hides) in preparation for tanning.
Grass➦
Marijuana.
Grain➦
To form grains
The corn began to grain.
Grass➦
To cover with grass or with turf.
Grain➦
(uncountable) The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
We stored a thousand tons of grain for the winter.
Grass➦
To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
Grain➦
(uncountable) Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
Grass➦
To bring to the grass or ground; to land; as, to grass a fish.
Grain➦
(countable) A single seed of grass food crops.
A grain of wheat
Grains of oat
Grass➦
To produce grass.
Grain➦
The crops from which grain is harvested.
The fields were planted with grain.
Grass➦
Narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay
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.
Grass➦
German writer of novels and poetry and plays (born 1927)
Grain➦
(countable) A single particle of a substance.
A grain of sand
A grain of salt
Grass➦
Animal food for browsing or grazing
Grain➦
(countable) Any of various small units of mass originally notionally based on grain's weight, variously standardized at different places and times, including
Grass➦
Street names for marijuana
Grain➦
The English grain of 5760 troy pound or 7000 pound avoirdupois, now exactly 64.79891 mg.
Grass➦
Shoot down, of birds
Grain➦
The metric, carat, or pearl grain of 4 carat used for measuring precious stones and pearls, now exactly 50 mg.
Grass➦
Cover with grass;
The owners decided to grass their property
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.
Grass➦
Spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach
Grain➦
Any of various small units of length originally notionally based on a grain's width, variously standardized at different places and times.
Grass➦
Cover with grass
Grain➦
The carat grain of 4 carat as a measure of gold purity, creating a 96-point scale between 0% and 100% purity.
Grass➦
Feed with grass
Grain➦
(materials) A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
Grass➦
Give away information about somebody;
He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam
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
