Grain vs Bundle - What's the difference?
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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
* 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.
A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.
* Goldsmith
A package wrapped or tied up for carrying.
(biology) A cluster of closely bound muscle or nerve fibres.
(informal) A large amount, especially of money.
(computing, Mac OS X) A directory containing related resources such as source code; application bundle.
A quantity of paper equal to 2 reams (1000 sheets).
To tie or wrap together.
To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly.
* T. Hook
To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony.
To dress someone warmly.
To dress warmly. Usually bundle up
(computing) To sell hardware and software as a single product.
To hurry.
(slang) To dogpile
To hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place.
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(dated) To sleep on the same bed without undressing.
* Washington Irving
In transitive terms the difference between grain and bundle
is that grain is to make granular; to form into grains while bundle is to hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place.In intransitive terms the difference between grain and bundle
is that grain is to form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate while bundle is to hurry.As nouns the difference between grain and bundle
is that grain is the harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley while bundle is a group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.As verbs the difference between grain and bundle
is that grain is to feed grain to while bundle is to tie or wrap together.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
* ----bundle
English
(wikipedia bundle)Noun
(en noun)- a bundle''' of straw or of paper; a '''bundle of old clothes
- The fable of the rods, which, when united in a bundle , no strength could bend.
- The inventor of that gizmo must have made a bundle .
Derived terms
* bundle buggy * bundle of energy * bundle of His * bundle of joy * bundle of laughs * bundle of nervesDescendants
*Coordinate terms
* (quantity of paper) bale, quire, reamSee also
*Verb
- They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach.
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- Yes, there is death in this business of whaling—a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity.
- Why, I didn't know that she meant that, until the Captain gave me an explanation, because I was dull of comprehension ; for he bundled me out of the house.
- Van Corlear stopped occasionally in the villages to eat pumpkin pies, dance at country frolics, and bundle with the Yankee lasses.