Synonym: bit, character, disposition, fiber, finish, nature, particle, plant, seed, speck, temper, tendency, texture. Similar words: grains, grained, migraine, rain, drain, rainy, brain, train. Meaning: [greɪn] 
n. 1. a small hard particle 2. foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses 3. a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat 4. 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams 5. 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams 6. dry seedlike fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn 7. the direction or texture of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric. v. 1. thoroughly work in 2. paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood 3. form into grains 4. become granular.
n. 1. a small hard particle 2. foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses 3. a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat 4. 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams 5. 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams 6. dry seedlike fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn 7. the direction or texture of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric. v. 1. thoroughly work in 2. paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood 3. form into grains 4. become granular. 
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91. These people have now become almost self-sufficient in grain crops.
92. An individual is only a tiny grain in the vast sea;it is the masses of people that are the boundless ocean.
93. The grain is heaped up as high as a mountain.
94. There is a grain of truth in all folklore and legend.
95. They thus increased their annual grain production rather than diminished it.
96. The Kuban produces an eighth of Russia's grain, meat and milk.
97. This is only a sort of handout. You may take it with a grain of salt.
98. There is not a grain of truth in what she says.
99. Several shiploads of grain arrived in the harbor that day.
100. By the end of the winter the supply of grain was severely depleted.
101. It really goes against the grain to have to work on a Sunday.
102. Prices of grain and cotton ruled low owing to a bumper harvest this year.
103. There is not a grain of common sense in what he has said.
104. The strip of mahogany has the grain running lengthwise.
105. The horses were fed on hay and grain.
106. It goes against the grain, doesn't it?
107. Granted, that goes against the grain.
108. This linguistic hierarchy went against my grain.
109. The grain was my gift to your father.
110. The grain was coarsely milled.
111. Congress may ease import restrictions on grain.
112. He was also showing a distaste for outdoor pursuits that ran against the grain of their family life.
113. Walburga once suppressed the voracious appetite of a child by having her consume three ears of grain.
114. The permeability of the rocks in the reservoir is mainly determined by the porosity and grain size of sands present.
115. Two associated pneumatic grain elevators with a combined discharge rate of 400 tons per hour were completed soon after.
116. Figure 3-17 shows graphically the division of igneous rocks according to their mineral content and their grain size.
117. They collect seeds and wild berries,[http://sentencedict.com/grain.html] and dig up secret hoards of grain.
118. The roar of the grain elevators and the slap of timbers rent the sunlit air.
119. Once again, Silverton goes against the grain by making her meringue smooth and flat instead of fluffy and high.
120. It would also catch grain bounding off the floor with the force of flail threshing.