Collocations withgrain
These are words often used in combination withgrain.
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bushel of grain
Is not this the all-important point, that we want every bushel of grain and every ounce of food we can get?
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coarse grain
Using this principle, devices for classes of sounds such as coarse grain collision interactions or friction interactions can be designed.
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fine grain
However, much latent parallelism in functional programs is too fine grain to be exploitable.
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grain bin
It is extremely hard to assess what a pile of grain lying in a farmer's yard or grain bin represents.
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grain boundary
The system then models grain boundary motion under external stresses.
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grain dryer
I have been promoted from using the pitchfork, 50 years ago, to being in charge of the grain dryer now.
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grain elevator
Crops and other farm products were largely marketed through the local grain elevator or wholesaler (83.2%) and through an industry operation (70.3%).
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grain farmer
I have yet to meet a grain farmer who believes that the levy system is working well to protect the home market.
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grain filling
Effect of shading on nonstructural carbohydrates and their turnover in culms and leaves during the grain filling period of spring wheat.
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grain harvest
Standing grain-crop dry matter following grain harvest was determined from 0.15r1-m areas (three areas in ungrazed plots and five areas in grazed plots).
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grain mill
He built houses and storage rooms, and an irrigation ditch to power his grain mill.
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grain of salt
Other co-occurrences of elderly with apparently positive adjectives must also be taken with a grain of salt.
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grain of sand
A volcano is a material thing, and so is a grain of sand, but neither of these metabolizes.
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grain of truth
But there is at least a grain of truth to his account.
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grain output
In the base case, high legume grain output prices compensated for the high labour input in double cropping systems.
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grain products
We are eating more grain products, more potatoes (and getting rather fatter) and more pulses.
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grain reserve
Emden's system of relief included a hospital, a surviving confraternity, a number of alms-houses or rather alms-rooms and a grain reserve.
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grain silo
For example, a seed sample would be collected differently if seeds were obtained in the field versus in a railway wagon versus in a grain silo.
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grain sorghum
Since 2001, we have been broadening the base of that perennial gene pool by crossing with newly released grain sorghum germplasm having superior grain quality.
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grain storage
The droughts would have been bad enough if the traditional village system for grain storage and distribution had still existed.
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grain terminal
It was because the brand-new grain terminal that was built needed only about 25 workers, who press buttons.
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grain trader
The only solution is to drop the price of grain and reduce the profits allowed to the grain trader.
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grain whisky
There are two types of whisky, malt whisky which is made purely from malted barley, and grain whisky, which can use other cereals, not necessarily malted.
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grain yield
The fungicide scheduling programme that provided the highest grain yield varied by cultivar and season.
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grinding grain
The remains of a quern for grinding grain was also found within this central area, as was a single carved rock.
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growing grain
The main motive for growing grain legume crops was the production of grain.
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imported grain
It was believed that a socialist country should not consume imported grain in general and grain from capitalist countries in particular.
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organic grain
Organic grain production frequently uses a different rotation cycle than conventional production.
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perennial grain
A growing number of agricultural scientists seek a way out of this situation through development of perennial grain cropping systems.
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pollen grain
Before being released from the anther, the pollen grain usually becomes desiccated and enters in a phase of stasis.
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quantity of grain
With the increase in urban population, the quantity of grain supplied through government shops increases.
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small grain
Second, there are other accounts of causal relevance besides the particular small grain one: those formulated in terms of property+property relations.
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spent grain
The process of filtering the spent grain from the wort and sparge water is called "wort separation".
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stored grain
During the survey, in ten underground pits opened within four months of storage life, weevils had attacked 45+70% of the stored grain.
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surplus grain
The provincial governments, under central government's order, had to partly subsidize the export of surplus grain to deficit provinces.
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ton of grain
A chalder of grain means about a ton of grain, and its value is fixed by the sheriff for the year.
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