Grain vs. Mush — What's the Difference?

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.

A thick porridge or pudding of cornmeal boiled in water or milk.

Wheat or any other cultivated cereal used as food.

Something thick, soft, and pulpy.

A single fruit or seed of a cereal

(Informal) Mawkish sentimentality, affection, or amorousness.

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).

A journey, especially by dogsled.

The longitudinal arrangement or pattern of fibres in wood, paper, etc.

To reduce to mush; mash or crush.

A person's character or natural tendency.

To travel, especially over snow with a dogsled.

Kermes or cochineal, or dye made from either of these.

To drive (a dogsled or team of dogs).

Give a rough surface or texture to

Used to command a team of dogs to begin pulling or move faster.

Paint (especially furniture or interior surfaces) in imitation of the grain of wood or marble.

A somewhat liquid mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance.

Remove hair from (a hide).

(radio) A mixture of noise produced by the harmonics of continuous-wave stations.

Feed (a horse) on grain.

(surfing) The foam of a breaker.

A small, dry, one-seeded fruit of a cereal grass, having the fruit and the seed walls united

(geology) A magmatic body containing a significant proportion of crystals suspended in the liquid phase or melt.

The fruits of cereal grasses especially after having been harvested, considered as a group

A food comprising cracked or rolled grains cooked in water or milk; porridge.

A cereal grass

Cornmeal cooked in water and served as a porridge or as a thick sidedish like grits or mashed potatoes.

Cereal grasses considered as a group

A walk, especially across the snow with dogs.

A relatively small discrete particulate or crystalline mass

A magic mushroom.

A small amount or the smallest amount possible

The face.

(Aerospace) A mass of solid propellant.

To squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else.

Abbr. gr. A unit of weight in the US Customary System, an avoirdupois unit equal to 0.002285 ounce (0.065 gram).

(intransitive) To walk, especially across the snow with dogs.

The markings, pattern, or texture of the fibrous tissue in wood

(transitive) To drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across the snow.

The direction of such markings

(transitive) To notch, cut, or indent (cloth, etc.) with a stamp.

The side of a hide or piece of leather from which the hair or fur has been removed.

A directive given (usually to dogs or a horse) to start moving, or to move faster.

The pattern or markings on this side of leather.

Meal (esp. Indian meal) boiled in water; hasty pudding; supawn.

The pattern produced, as in stone, by the arrangement of particulate constituents.

A march on foot, esp. across the snow with dogs; as, he had a long mush before him; - also used attributively.

The relative size of the particles composing a substance or pattern

To notch, cut, or indent, as cloth, with a stamp.

A painted, stamped, or printed design that imitates the pattern found in wood, leather, or stone.

To travel on foot, esp. across the snow with dogs.

The direction or texture of fibers in a woven fabric.

Any soft or soggy mass;

A state of fine crystallization.

Cornmeal boiled in water

Basic temperament or nature; disposition

An expression that is excessively sweet and sentimental

An essential quality or characteristic

A journey by dogsled

(Archaic) Color; tint.

Drive (a team of dogs or a dogsled)

To cause to form into grains; granulate.

Travel with a dogsled

To paint, stamp, or print with a design imitating the grain of wood, leather, or stone.

To give a granular or rough texture to.

To remove the hair or fur from (hides) in preparation for tanning.

To form grains

(uncountable) The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.

(uncountable) Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.

(countable) A single seed of grass food crops.

The crops from which grain is harvested.

(uncountable) A linear texture of a material or surface.

(countable) A single particle of a substance.

(countable) Any of various small units of mass originally notionally based on grain's weight, variously standardized at different places and times, including

The English grain of 5760 troy pound or 7000 pound avoirdupois, now exactly 64.79891 mg.

The metric, carat, or pearl grain of 4 carat used for measuring precious stones and pearls, now exactly 50 mg.

(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.

Any of various small units of length originally notionally based on a grain's width, variously standardized at different places and times.

The carat grain of 4 carat as a measure of gold purity, creating a 96-point scale between 0% and 100% purity.

(materials) A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.

(rocketry) The solid piece of fuel in an individual solid-fuel rocket engine.

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.

The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.

(in the plural) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called draff.

(botany) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock.

Temper; natural disposition; inclination.

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.

A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant.

A tine, prong, or fork.

One of the branches of a valley or river.

An iron fish spear or harpoon, with a number of points half-barbed inwardly.

A blade of a sword, knife, etc.

(founding) A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core.

To feed grain to.

(transitive) To make granular; to form into grains.

(intransitive) To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.

To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.

(tanning) To remove the hair or fat from a skin.

(tanning) To soften leather.

To yield fruit.

See Groan.

To paint in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc.

To form (powder, sugar, etc.) into grains.

To take the hair off (skins); to soften and raise the grain of (leather, etc.).

To yield fruit.

To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.

A single small hard seed; a kernel, especially of those plants, like wheat, whose seeds are used for food.

The fruit of certain grasses which furnish the chief food of man, as corn, wheat, rye, oats, etc., or the plants themselves; - used collectively.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The direction, arrangement, or appearance of the fibers in wood, or of the strata in stone, slate, etc.

The fiber which forms the substance of wood or of any fibrous material.

The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.

The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called draff.

Temper; natural disposition; inclination.

A sort of spice, the grain of paradise.

A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant.

A tine, prong, or fork.

A blade of a sword, knife, etc.

A thin piece of metal, used in a mold to steady a core.

A small hard particle;

Foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses

Used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat

1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams

1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams

Dry seedlike fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn

The direction or texture of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric;

Thoroughly work in;

Paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood

Form into grains

Become granular