Grain vs Hay - What's the difference?
grain | hay |
(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
* Quoted by Coleridge, preface to Aids to Reflection
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.
(uncountable) Grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder.
* Camden
* C. L. Flint
(countable) Any mix of green leafy plants used for fodder.
(slang) Cannabis; marijuana.
* 1947 , William Burroughs, letter, 19 Feb 1947:
A net set around the haunt of an animal, especially a rabbit.
(obsolete) A hedge.
(obsolete) A circular country dance.
To cut grasses or herb plants for use as animal fodder.
To lay snares for rabbits.
As nouns the difference between grain and hay
is that grain is hate, hatred, disgust while hay is (uncountable) grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder or hay can be the name of the letter for the h sound in pitman shorthand.As a verb hay is
to cut grasses or herb plants for use as animal fodder.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)
Etymology 2
See .Noun
(en noun)External links
* *Anagrams
* ----hay
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) (m), from (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
- Make hay while the sun shines.
- Hay may be dried too much as well as too little.
- I would like some of that hay . Enclose $20.
- (Rowe)
- to dance the hay
Derived terms
* hay fever * hayloft, hay loft * haystack * hayward * hit the hay * make hay while the sun shinesExternal links
* (wikipedia)Verb
(en verb)- (Huloet)
References
Webster's Online Dictionary article on hay