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Meaning of graining

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

graining

verb

Definitions

  1. To feed grain to.

  2. To make granular; to form into grains.

  3. To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.

  4. To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.

noun

Definitions

  1. The practice of imitating woodgrain on a surface.

  2. Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins.

  3. A process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised.

  4. (soap manufacture) The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt.