small grain
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsmallandgrain
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small
adjective
uk/smɔːl/us/smɑːl/
little in size or amount when compared with what is typical ...
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grain
noun
uk/ɡreɪn/us/ɡreɪn/
a seed or seeds from a plant, especially a plant like a grass such as rice ...
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(Definition ofsmallandgrainfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Second, there are other accounts of causal relevance besides the particularsmallgrainone: those formulated in terms of property+property relations.
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First, they conflatesmallgrainwith what can be called particular grain.
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This suggests a missing distinction, one between particularsmallgrainand abstractsmallgrain, or token-smallgrainand type-smallgrain.
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This is why the eye suffers more from asmallgrainof dust than the arm from a major bruise.
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In most cases we evaporatedsmallgrainfractions of three to four optically identical grains.
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By another discriminative response, the bird chose to complete the memory test with the hint provided, almost surely receiving asmallgrainreward.
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The decline in aphid populations frequently observed in stands ofsmallgraincereals is a classical example of such a movement between hosts.
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Smallgraincover crops and wheel traffic effects on infiltration, runoff, and erosion.
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These children should prefersmallgrainsize sublexical recoding strategies because of the consistency of letter - sound correspondences, and so there should be no accuracy cost when reading mixed lists.
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However, these and most other studies utilizedsmallgrainstraws such as crop residues, and very few evaluated the value of organic wastes other than crop residues as mulch material.
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That the change in aphid population densities onsmallgraincereals and maize is parallel raises the question: what causes the aphid populations to decline on these plants?
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