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grainy, a.|ˈgreɪnɪ|
[f. grain n.1 + -y1.]
1. a. Consisting of grain-like particles; granular. Also of a particle: Grain-like.
1611Cotgr., Granuleux, Grainie, seedie. 1709Phil. Trans. XXVI. 497 You will always be able to discover the grainy Particles thereof. 1780J. T. Dillon Trav. Spain (1781) 218 Soft grainy pyrites. 1891Times 17 Oct. 4/5, 750 bags grainy Peruvian at 15s. 6d. 1940A. L. M. Sowerby Wall's Dict. Photogr. (ed. 15) 350 A negative is said to be ‘grainy’ when an enlargement from it shows the structure of the image. 1947J. Steinbeck Wayward Bus 33 He was tired and his skin felt grainy. 1961G. Millerson Technique Telev. Production iii. 42 Pictures will be indistinct, smeary, lifeless, and scintillating with the grainy effect of picture⁓noise. 1967Times 27 Dec. 11/1 The coarsely grainy photography which not very long ago was a sign of spontaneity and originality. 1970Nature 5 Sept. 1064/1 The very dark and grainy appearance of many of the photographs.
b. Of a voice or sound: rough, gritty.
1963W. K. Rose in Lett. Wyndham Lewis p. xxi, The everyday tone of Lewis's voice—grainy, insistent. 1969Listener 20 Mar. 398/2 Jack Bruce's bass-guitar work..on the live tracks has a wonderfully grainy, growling sound.
2. Full of grain or corn.
1755in Johnson. 1792Rogers Pleasures Mem. i. (1810) 12 We watched the emmet to her grainy nest. 1819J. H. Wiffen Aonian Hours (1820) 47 They [the ants] throne prosperity in grainy hives.
3. Resembling the surface grain of wood.
1858Edin. Rev. July 9 It presented on its surface the grainy ripple of primeval seas. |