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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As a result, it is also expected to generate graining on the front tyres, where the surface tears, reducing grip.
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
The movement, an automatic Dubois-Dépraz 9000, is decorated with circular graining on the bridges and a snailed côtes de Genève motif on the rotor.
From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2013
Then I painted the ends of the corks to resemble the graining, and when it was done they could hardly be noticed a couple of feet away.
From The Lost Heir by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
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