grainy - Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/grainyPrivate View From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Photography grain‧y /ˈɡreɪni/ adjective a photograph that is grainy has a rough appearance, as if the images are made up of spots Examples from the Corpus grainy • Aged Gruyere: Five years old, this cheese is grainy and piquant with a sweet, long finish. • Its defrosting ...
grainy | Etymology of grainy by etymonline www.etymonline.com/word/grainyPrivate View early 14c., "a small, hard seed," especially of one of the cereal plants, also as a collective singular, "seed of wheat and allied grasses used as food;" also "something resembling grain; a hard particle of other substances" (salt, sand, later gunpowder, etc.), from Old French grain, grein (12c.) "seed, grain; particle, drop; berry; grain as a ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English | LDOCE www.ldoceonline.comPrivate View Welcome to Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online Longman Diccionario Conciso (English–Latin American Spanish) Longman English–Japanese Dictionary Longman English–Korean Dictionary. Word of the day staple a small piece of thin wire that is pushed into sheets of paper and bent over to hold them together.