Crush vs Grain - What's the difference?
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A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
* Addison
Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
Crowd which produces uncomfortable pressure.
A violent crowding
A crowd control barrier
A short-lived infatuation or affection for.
The human object of infatuation or affection.
* 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling
A party, festive function
* 1890 ch 1
(Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season that this process takes place in.
To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mass.
To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute.
* 1912 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 1
To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
To oppress or burden grievously.
To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
* Sir Walter Scott
To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force
To feel infatuation with or unrequited love for.
(sports) to defeat emphatically
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(uncountable) The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
(uncountable) Similar seeds from any food crop, eg buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
(countable) A single seed of grain.
(countable, uncountable) The crops from which grain is harvested.
(uncountable) A linear texture of a material or surface.
(countable) A single particle of a substance.
(countable) A very small unit of weight, in England equal to 1/480 of an ounce troy, 0.0648 grams or, to be more exact, 64.79891 milligrams (0.002285714 avoirdupois ounce). A carat grain or pearl grain is 1/4 carat or 50 milligrams. The old French grain was 1/9216 livre or 53.11 milligrams, and in the mesures usuelles permitted from 1812 to 1839, with the livre redefined as 500 grams, it was 54.25 milligrams.
(countable) A former unit of gold purity, also known as carat grain , equal to "carat" (karat).
(materials) A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple.
* Milton
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The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
(in the plural) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called
(botany) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock.
Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
* Hayward
To feed grain to.
To make granular; to form into grains.
To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
(tanning) To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
(tanning) To soften leather.
To yield fruit.
A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant.
A tine, prong, or fork.
# One of the branches of a valley or river.
# An iron fish spear or harpoon, with a number of points half-barbed inwardly.
#* 1770 : Served 5 lb of fish per man which was caught by striking with grains'' — journal of Stephen Forwood (gunner on ), 4 May 1770, quoted by Parkin (page 195).
# A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
(founding) A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core.
In intransitive terms the difference between crush and grain
is that crush is to be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force while grain is to form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.As nouns the difference between crush and grain
is that crush is a violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin while grain is the harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.As verbs the difference between crush and grain
is that crush is to press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mass while grain is to feed grain to.crush
English
(wikipedia crush)Noun
(es)- the wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds
- A crush at a reception.
- It had taken nine years from the evening that first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush .
- Two months ago I went to a crush at Lady Brandon's.
Derived terms
* crush hat * crush room * girl crush * man crushVerb
(es)- to crush grapes
- Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is bruised, crushed , broken or cut. --Lev. xxii.
- to crush quartz
- With a wild scream he was upon her, tearing a great piece from her side with his mighty teeth, and striking her viciously upon her head and shoulders with a broken tree limb until her skull was crushed to a jelly.
- ''After the corruption scandal, the opposition crushed the ruling party in the elections
- The sultan's black guard crushed every resistance bloodily.
- speedily overtaking and crushing the rebels
- an eggshell crushes easily
- She's crushing on him.
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Derived terms
* crusher * crushing * crush on * crush out * crushed sugar * crushed velvetReferences
*grain
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) grain, grein, from (etyl) . Compare English corn.Noun
- We stored a thousand tons of grain for the winter.
- a grain of wheat
- The fields were planted with grain .
- Cut along the grain of the wood.
- a grain of sand
- a grain of salt
- all in a robe of darkest grain
- doing as the dyers do, who, having first dipped their silks in colours of less value, then give them the last tincture of crimson in grain .
- (Knight)
- brothers not united in grain
Derived terms
* against the grain * grain of saltSee also
* cerealVerb
(en verb)- (Gower)