grain of fabric
1grain — [n1] seed, piece atom, bit, cereal, corn, crumb, drop, fragment, granule, grist, iota, jot, kernel, mite, modicum, molecule, morsel, mote, ounce, particle, pellet, scintilla, scrap, scruple, smidgen, spark, speck, tittle, trace, whit; concepts… …
2grain — grainer, n. grainless, adj. /grayn/, n. 1. a small, hard seed, esp. the seed of a food plant such as wheat, corn, rye, oats, rice, or millet. 2. the gathered seed of food plants, esp. of cereal plants. 3. such plants collectively. 4. any small,… …
3grain — /greɪn / (say grayn) noun 1. a small hard seed, especially a seed of one of the cereal plants: wheat, rye, oats, barley, maize, or millet. 2. the gathered seeds of cereal plants in the mass. 3. the plants themselves, whether standing or gathered …
4Fabric (geology) — [ Hobbs,B.E., Means,W.D. Williams,P.F. 1976. An outline of structural geology. John Wiley sons, p.73.] .Types of fabric* Primary fabric a fabric created during the original formation of the rock e.g. a preferred orientation of clast long axes in… …
5grain — [[t]greɪn[/t]] n. 1) a small, hard seed, esp. the seed of a food plant such as wheat, corn, rye, oats, rice, or millet 2) the gathered seed of food plants, esp. of cereal plants 3) such plants collectively 4) any small, hard particle, as of sand …
6grain — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. fruit, cereal, seed, grist, kernel; texture, temper, tendency; mite, speck, bit (see littleness). II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Seeds of domesticated grasses] Syn. cereal, cereals, corn (British), small… …
7grain — n 1. seed, kernel, groats, grist, ground grain, grits; cereal, wheat, buckwheat, barley, corn, maize, rye, oats, rice, millet. 2. particle, piece, bit, scrap, Scot. curn; speck, mite, moit, mote, dot, point, dab, fleck, speck, spot; smidgen, Inf …
8fabric — n 1. cloth, textile, weave, loom, dry goods, broadcloth; stuff, material, piece, bolt; jute, burlap, gunny, sackcloth; tapestry, towelling, cambric, linen, lawn; mohair, alpaca, vicuna, Angora, wool, worsted; jersey, homespun, duffel, canvas,… …
9Moire (fabric) — Moire ribbons In textiles, a moire (pronounced /ˈmwɑr/ or /ˈmɔr/) (less often, moiré) is a fabric with a wavy (watered) appearance produced mainly from silk, but also wool, cotton and rayon. The watered ap …
10ingrain — [17] Ingrain means literally ‘work into the grain’ (of fabric, originally) – whence the main metaphorical sense of ingrained, ‘deepseated’. But there is much more to the story of ingrain than that. Its ultimate source was engrainer ‘dye’, an Old… …
