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# grain

«grain» in Mova's school dictionary: **the seeds of plants like wheat, rice, oats, barley and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (grain, grains; uncountable for the crop)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Grain is the seeds of plants like wheat, rice, oats, barley and corn, used for food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grain/#m1)

2) A grain is one tiny hard piece of something, like a grain of sand, salt or sugar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grain/#m2)

3) The grain of wood is the pattern of lines in it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grain/#m3)

4) A grain of something can mean a very small amount, like a grain of truth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grain/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

A crop measured in bags, tons or bushels, sold or stored; sometimes tiny grains counted. In science and health: whole grains (brown rice, oats, wholemeal bread) are good food; flour is ground grain. In stories: the farmer, the mill, the little red hen. Phrases: «a grain of sand», «whole grain», «against the grain», «a grain of truth».

### examples

- The farmer stores 500 kilograms of grain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grain/#x1)
- Each bag holds 25 kilograms of grain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grain/#x2)
- A hen eats 100 grams of grain a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grain/#x3)
- The truck carries 3 tons of grain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grain/#x4)
- There were grains of sand in my shoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grain/#x5)
- Wholegrain bread has more fibre. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grain/#x6)
- The little red hen planted grains of wheat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grain/#x7)
- Sand the wood along the grain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grain/#x8)
- He wanted to save at least some of his grain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grain/#x9)

### note

An amount that is weighed, not counted, when used as a crop; per bag or per day it is a rate. Trap: watch the units (grams, kilograms, tons) before adding. Crop sense is uncountable («a lot of grain»); a single piece is countable («three grains of rice»).

### In the corpora

- [Real farm cats are useful mousers that keep mice and rats away from barns full of grain.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs/13/)
- [Mice prefer grains, seeds and sweet foods to cheese, so peanut butter works better in humane traps.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/228-cartoon-pets-and-animal-myths-put-right/8/)
- [Mice will eat cheese, but they prefer grains, seeds and sweet foods, so people baiting traps usually use peanut butter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/237-animal-minds-what-dogs-and-cats-feel-and-understand-and-do-cats-really-chase-mice/9/)
- [The smallest bone, the stirrup in your ear, is smaller than a grain of rice.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/263-human-body-deeper-bones-muscles-and-skin/7/)
- [Wheat is a tall grass whose seeds, the grains, are ground into flour.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «grain» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grain/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.