Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Made of or resembling grain; granular.
- adjective Resembling the grain of wood.
- adjective Having a granular appearance, as from the clumping of particles in the emulsion of a photograph.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of grains or corn; full of kernels.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Resembling grains; granular.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Resembling grains; granular.
- adjective
Coarsely ground orgritty .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency
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Examples
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Nor did they like the texture, which they called grainy and fatty.
NYDN Rss SARAH DONNA 2011
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The film, shot in grainy black and white, was a strange mixture of naturalism and existentialism.
Arthur Penn obituary Sheila Whitaker 2010
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Featuring dramatic "reenactments" of high school bathroom rape scenes shot in grainy black-and-white footage, the lengthy segment's vaguely salacious claims about local high school girls being raped and "sodomized" with "sex toys bought on the Internet" was based almost entirely on the lurid musings of a single Shelby County gang officer.
Bill O'Reilly is a Lesbian JDsg 2007
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I was introduced to the work of Diana Arbus years ago by my rock photographer friend, Panny, who was much influenced by Arbus, and like her worked with a Rolliflex in grainy black and white.
Photographic Revelations Sharon Bakar 2006
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He even makes his first assassination (shown in grainy black and white) an unsettlingly erotic experience.
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More accurate title grainy picture of flame in micro-gravity
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Some artists were obviously aware of the issue of copyright infringement: At the bottom of one poster there is the casual typewritten remark (in grainy capitals): “What you don’t know about copying and duplicating won’t hurt you.”
Psychedelic Denver 2009
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Some artists were obviously aware of the issue of copyright infringement: At the bottom of one poster there is the casual typewritten remark (in grainy capitals): “What you don’t know about copying and duplicating won’t hurt you.”
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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Just tonight I burned up several minutes watching this, this, this, this, and this — all examples of that film a bunch of models in grainy Super 8″ style that was briefly hot in the ’80s.
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Just tonight I burned up several minutes watching this, this, this, this, and this — all examples of that film a bunch of models in grainy Super 8″ style that was briefly hot in the ’80s.
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