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grainless

adj

Etymology

From grain + -less. Piecewise doublet of cornless.

  1. derived from *ǵr̥h₂nóm✻ — “grain”
  2. derived from grānum — “seed”
  3. derived from grain
  4. inherited from greyn
  5. suffixed as grainless — “grain + less”

Definitions

  1. Without grain.

    • grainless silage

  2. Free from grainy texture or appearance.

    • making grainless enlargements
    • Highlights start blocking up and shadows turn to featureless black far sooner than on normal films — but the shadows are a very lovely black, because shadow areas of the two new films are clear and grainless.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for grainless. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA