graining
Britishnoun
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the pattern or texture of the grain of wood, leather, etc
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the process of painting, printing, staining, etc, a surface in imitation of a grain
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a surface produced by such a process
Example Sentences
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You can try some of the old techniques that are still used, such as satin brushing and circular graining.
From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2023
They had underestimated the resilience of the hard tyres – boosted by the higher temperatures on Sunday that reduced graining.
From The Guardian • Oct. 28, 2019
The first recorded flood was in 1780, just a few years after three Quaker brothers from Bucks County, Pa. — Joseph, Andrew and John Ellicott — founded what became a center of milling and graining.
From Washington Post • Aug. 8, 2016
Nohnan Lounsberry of Wilmington, for instance, received an 1873 patent for improving a machine for “pebbling and graining wet skins.”
From Washington Times • Mar. 12, 2016
For graining woods use darker tint with a greater proportion of red.
From An Introduction to Machine Drawing and Design by Low, David Allan
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