| 单词 | grainy |
| 释义 | grainy (once / 23592 pages) adj Something that's grainy feels rough to the touch, as though it's made of many tiny pieces. A piece of rough sandpaper feels grainy. Cornmeal is grainy, and your floor will feel grainy under your bare feet after your family returns from the beach with sand on their shoes. Grainy things are gritty, textured with little bumps or grains. You'll be disappointed if your birthday cake has a grainy texture. The earliest, thirteenth-century meaning of grainy was "scarlet dye," a result of its Old French root, which had several meanings including "seed" and "berry." The Latin origin is granum, "seed, grain, or small kernel." WORD FAMILYgrainy: grainier, graininess+/grain: grained, graining, grains, grainy/graining: grainings USAGE EXAMPLESThe footage, shot on a camcorder, was grainy and intercut with static. New York Times(Jan 06, 2016) Lodeiro’s first image of the United States was formed from American cinema, grainy VHS shots of the New York City skyline. Seattle Times(Dec 09, 2016) He is seen on grainy film footage hesitating before jumping to his death. Wall Street Journal(Dec 05, 2016) adj composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency the photographs were grainy and indistinct Syn coarse-grained, farinaceous, granular, granulose, gritty, mealy coarse, harsh of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles |
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