graining

British  

/ ˈɡreɪnɪŋ /

noun

1. the pattern or texture of the grain of wood, leather, etc

2. the process of painting, printing, staining, etc, a surface in imitation of a grain

3. a surface produced by such a process

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Example Sentences

More importantly, in a race expected to be dominated by tyre graining, Ferrari’s tyre wear has looked if anything better than Red Bull’s this weekend.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2024

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

Any one possessing artistic taste and some training can work out these fanciful decorations for home gratification, and being cherished, they will last three or four times as long as the graining of the house-painter.

From Household Organization by Caddy, Florence