grainer

English

Etymology

From grain +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹeɪ̯.nə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹeɪ̯.nɚ/

Noun

grainer (plural grainers)

1. A knife for taking the hair off skins.
2. An infusion of pigeon's dung used by tanners to neutralize the effects of lime and give flexibility to skins; -- called also grains and bate.
3. One who grains (paints in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc).
4. A brush or tool used for such painting.
5. (rail transportation, US) A type of railroad car that carries grain.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “grainer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Garnier, Granier, angrier, earring, rangier, rearing

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁɛ.ne/ ~ /ɡʁe.ne/

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Verb

grainer

1. to granulate
2. to seed

Conjugation

Conjugation of grainer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	grainer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	grainant /ɡʁɛ.nɑ̃/ or /ɡʁe.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		grainé /ɡʁɛ.ne/ or /ɡʁe.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	graine /ɡʁɛn/	graines /ɡʁɛn/	graine /ɡʁɛn/	grainons /ɡʁɛ.nɔ̃/ or /ɡʁe.nɔ̃/	grainez /ɡʁɛ.ne/ or /ɡʁe.ne/	grainent /ɡʁɛn/
	imperfect	grainais /ɡʁɛ.nɛ/ or /ɡʁe.nɛ/	grainais /ɡʁɛ.nɛ/ or /ɡʁe.nɛ/	grainait /ɡʁɛ.nɛ/ or /ɡʁe.nɛ/	grainions /ɡʁɛ.njɔ̃/ or /ɡʁe.njɔ̃/	grainiez /ɡʁɛ.nje/ or /ɡʁe.nje/	grainaient /ɡʁɛ.nɛ/ or /ɡʁe.nɛ/
	past historic2	grainai /ɡʁɛ.ne/ or /ɡʁe.ne/	grainas /ɡʁɛ.na/ or /ɡʁe.na/	graina /ɡʁɛ.na/ or /ɡʁe.na/	grainâmes /ɡʁɛ.nam/ or /ɡʁe.nam/	grainâtes /ɡʁɛ.nat/ or /ɡʁe.nat/	grainèrent /ɡʁɛ.nɛʁ/ or /ɡʁe.nɛʁ/
	future	grainerai /ɡʁɛn.ʁe/	graineras /ɡʁɛn.ʁa/	grainera /ɡʁɛn.ʁa/	grainerons /ɡʁɛn.ʁɔ̃/	grainerez /ɡʁɛn.ʁe/	graineront /ɡʁɛn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	grainerais /ɡʁɛn.ʁɛ/	grainerais /ɡʁɛn.ʁɛ/	grainerait /ɡʁɛn.ʁɛ/	grainerions /ɡʁɛ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ɡʁe.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	graineriez /ɡʁɛ.nə.ʁje/ or /ɡʁe.nə.ʁje/	graineraient /ɡʁɛn.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	graine /ɡʁɛn/	graines /ɡʁɛn/	graine /ɡʁɛn/	grainions /ɡʁɛ.njɔ̃/ or /ɡʁe.njɔ̃/	grainiez /ɡʁɛ.nje/ or /ɡʁe.nje/	grainent /ɡʁɛn/
	imperfect2	grainasse /ɡʁɛ.nas/ or /ɡʁe.nas/	grainasses /ɡʁɛ.nas/ or /ɡʁe.nas/	grainât /ɡʁɛ.na/ or /ɡʁe.na/	grainassions /ɡʁɛ.na.sjɔ̃/ or /ɡʁe.na.sjɔ̃/	grainassiez /ɡʁɛ.na.sje/ or /ɡʁe.na.sje/	grainassent /ɡʁɛ.nas/ or /ɡʁe.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	graine /ɡʁɛn/	—	grainons /ɡʁɛ.nɔ̃/ or /ɡʁe.nɔ̃/	grainez /ɡʁɛ.ne/ or /ɡʁe.ne/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• grainage

Further reading

• “grainer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.