grained

[US]/ɡreɪnd/
[UK]/ɡrend/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. having a wood-like texture, without hair, painted with a wood grain pattern

Phrases & Collocations

fine-grained

coarse-grained

fine grained

coarse grained

Example Sentences

Bruce was a cross-grained and boastful individual.

her fingers were grained with chalk dust.

durable straight-grained wood of the lacewood tree; used for building and cabinetwork and tools.

a fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind.

The dolostone includes sparry dolostone, residual-grained dolostone, residual limy dolostone and algae dolostone.

Latites contain plagioclase feldspar (andesine or oligoclase) as large, single crystals (phenocrysts) in a fine-grained matrix of orthoclase feldspar and augite.

Magnetic separation intake purolator, which can avoid metallics and large grained impurity enter into the oil way.

An attempt has been made to follow the scientific and technological steps associated with the production of fine grained hardmetal.

A tropical American shrub or small tree(Quassia amara) having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable, lustrous, fine-grained, yellowish-white wood.

The grayish-yellow silts/fine-grained-sands have a magnetic mixture of magnetite and maghemite, characterized by strong magnetism and relatively coarser magnetic particles.

The SHRIMP age data and geochemical results of the Palaeoarchaean dioritic gneiss and fine-grained trondhjemite of the ancient Dongshan rock belt from the Anshan area are reported in this paper.

On the base, the main writers made a kind of cultural snack labeling Decadent zest from the end of the century through the original New Realism literature tagging hilding and coarse - grained life.

Real-world Examples

If they are really heavy grained, it's 1 to 20.

Source: VOA Standard English_Americas

Kodak film did not render the difference between dark grained wood and light grained wood.

Source: Pop culture

It's very fine grained, stainless steel.

Source: Kitchen Deliciousness Competition

Then those fine grained layers built up by sedimentation, that could have taken centuries.

Source: BBC Horizon series documentary

The superstructure is made of a torsion-resistant welded structure fabricated from high strength fine grained structural steel.

Source: Curious Engineering Encyclopedia

But sandstones are much coarser grained, and it takes more energy in the water to move the sand.

Source: University of Alberta - Dinosaur Paleontology

Its fine–grained sand was followed by a genuine causeway of smooth crags covered by a carpet of mollusks and zoophytes.

Source: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

We should nurture sympathy for ourselves based on a fine grained appreciation of the specific burdens we had to take on.

Source: Selected English short passages

In this site, which consists mostly of lake bed deposits of fine grained silts, you have volcanic ash mixing in with the silt.

Source: University of Alberta - Dinosaur Paleontology

In this quarry, the dinosaurs are being found in something called mudstone, silt stone or a shale and these rocks are very fine grained and they represent quiet water environments.

Source: University of Alberta - Dinosaur Paleontology

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