Past tense of grain
regular verb
The past tense of grain is grained. The past participle is also grained.
Forms of grain
| Base form (V1) | grain /ɡɹeɪn/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | grained |
| Past participle (V3) | grained |
| Present participle | graining |
| Third person singular | grains /ɡɹeɪnz/ |
Grained in a sentence
- Kelyphite is a fine grained, fibrous and radially oriented mineral assembly surrounding partially retrogressed garnet.2009, M. Obata, K. Ozawa, D. Spengler, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #V44A-02. From the entry kelyphite
- The rock is strongly tectonized with a finely grained structure.2011 September 20, Dariusz Malczewski, Jerzy Żaba, “Natural radioactivity in rocks of the Modane–Aussois region (SE France)”, in Journal…. From the entry tectonized
- The sheets of alpha paper which have been grained are first dipped in soft acetate remaining there for three minutes.1939, Herald, volume 5. From the entry alpha paper
- CPMD was developed from the ground up as a supermassively parallel code, employing a coarse-grained distributed memory parallelization and a fine grained parallelization by using Open complier directives.2014, John-von-Neumann-Institut für Computing (Jülich), Kurt Binder, Manfred Kremer, NIC Symposium 2012 Proceedings; 25 Years HLRZ…. From the entry supermassively
Meaning of grain
- noun The harvested seeds of various grass food crops, especially wheat, maize, rye, barley, and rice.
- noun Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
- noun A single seed of a food crop, especially a cereal grass crop.
Questions about the past tense of grain
- What is the past tense of grain?
- The past tense of grain is grained.
- What is the past participle of grain?
- The past participle of grain is grained.
- Is grain a regular or irregular verb?
- Grain is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
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