grain

/ɡreɪn/

意味: 穀物、粒

例文: Philo polished a single grain of rice.
　　  フィロは米粒を一粒だけ磨いた。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: grain of rice(米粒), whole grain(全粒穀物), grain production(穀物生産)

定義: 穀物や種子の小さな粒のことです。パンやご飯の材料になることが多いです。また、木や石の表面の模様や質感を指すこともあります。

grainは約70,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: a relatively small granular particle of a substance
Noun: foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
Noun: the side of leather from which the hair has been removed
Noun: a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat
Noun: 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams
Noun: 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams
Noun: dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
Noun: a cereal grass
Noun: the smallest possible unit of anything
Noun: the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric
Noun: the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance)
Verb: thoroughly work in
Verb: paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood
Verb: form into grains
Verb: become granular

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The farmer harvested the grain early this year.(農家は今年、穀物を早めに収穫した。)
She added grain to the recipe for extra texture.(彼女は食感を良くするために穀物を加えた。)
Grain prices have risen due to poor weather conditions.(悪天候で穀物の価格が上昇した。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: a grain of sand
Noun: a grain of sugar
Noun: wheat is a grain that is grown in Kansas
Noun: there was a grain of truth in what he said
Noun: he does not have a grain of sense
Noun: saw the board across the grain
Noun: breadfruit has the same texture as bread
Noun: sand of a fine grain
Noun: fish with a delicate flavor and texture
Noun: a stone of coarse grain
Verb: His hands were grained with dirt

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): caryopsis, cereal, food grain, grain, granulate, ingrain, metric grain, texture

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): apothecaries’ unit, atom, avoirdupois unit, cereal, change shape, constitution, foodstuff, form, leather, metric weight unit, paint, penetrate, seed, smallness, texture, troy unit

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): airbrush, alligator, ash-key, babassu nut, barley, bead, bean, bend, bonduc nut, breadstuff, break, brecciate, buckeye, buckskin, buff, bulge, bunch, calf, canned food, carat, carob, centner, chamois, chylomicron, cocoa, coffee bean, cohune nut, coloring, concentrate, concoction, conglobate, constellate, coquilla nut, cordovan, corn, cowhide, crushed leather, culminate, curd, cut, dairy product, decigram, deerskin, deform, dehydrated food, dekagram, delicacy, diminutiveness, dinge, doeskin, dram, draw, dwarfishness, edible seed, egg, flake, flatten, flex, flour, flyspeck, foray, frozen food, genotype, glove leather, grain, gram, gram atom, gram molecule, granulate, grinding, half pound, head, hectogram, honeycomb, horsehide, hundredweight, identification particle, immerse, ingrain, ingredient, interpenetrate, ivory nut, job’s tears, juice, jumping bean, karyotype, kid, kilogram, kiloton, long ton, marbleization, meal, megaton, metric ton, microgram, milk, millet, milligram, mocha, morocco, myriagram, nanogram, neem seed, nut, oat, oilseed, ooze leather, ooze through, ounce, patent leather, pearl millet, pennyweight, percolate, perishable, permeate, phenotype, piece of leather, pierce, pigskin, pip, poke into, pound, prime, probe, puniness, quarter, quarter pound, quintal, repaint, reticulate, rice, ricegrass, roan, roll, roll up, roughage, russia leather, rye, safflower seed, scruple, sharpen, sheepskin, shoe leather, short ton, sneak in, starches, start, stone, storm, strike, structure, suede, tapioca, texture, troy pound, tunnel, twist, unfold, wheat, white leather, wild rice

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): amaranth, barley, barleycorn, buckwheat, corn, graining, granule, grist, groats, kernel, malt, millet, oat, rice, rye, wheat, wheat berry, wild rice, wood grain

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: cereal, grain, graining, grainy, granular, granulation

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: science

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

英検準1級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

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Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

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