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GRAYN/ɡreɪn/

Grain is the seeds of crops such as wheat (often uncountable): grain prices; a grain of rice; a grain of truth. Cereal is related. Do not call a loaf grain. Against the grain means against your nature. Geography and food-security texts use grain harvests.

Meaning

The seeds of crops such as wheat; also a tiny amount (a grain of truth).

Examples

• “Grain prices rose after the dry summer.”
• “There is a grain of truth in the complaint, which is the idiom.”

Good to know

Uncountable: grain; grain prices / harvest. Countable: a grain of rice / truth. Idiom: against the grain. Related: cereal. Not a loaf.

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