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

Ferrari have proved strong recently at circuits where there are high levels of graining - think Las Vegas at the end of last year and Australia this year.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2024

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

“There was significant graining, scratches and fading, all the things you’d expect from television footage dating back nearly half a century.”

From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2014

All graining of wood is false, inasmuch as it attempts to deceive; the effort being made at causing one material to look like another which it is not.

From Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition by Dresser, Christopher