Grainy
adjective
Similar to small hard bits of sand, rough to touch.
She commented on the grainy texture of the homemade bread
Often appears as...
- grainy texture
- grainy photograph
adjective
Having a low-quality image with many visible dots.
The grainy photo taken on a cheap camera is hard to make out
Often appears as...
- grainy photo
- grainy video
adjective
Similar to small hard bits of sand, rough to touch.
She commented on the grainy texture of the homemade bread
Often appears as...
- grainy texture
- grainy photograph
adjective
Having a low-quality image with many visible dots.
The grainy photo taken on a cheap camera is hard to make out
Often appears as...
- grainy photo
- grainy video
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Pro Tip 1/3Texture Description
Use 'grainy' when describing foods or materials that have a rough or slightly bumpy feeling.
The grainy mustard added a rustic touch to the sandwich.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Bad
'Grainy' can be positive, describing desired textures in bread or condiments.
Artisan bakers often strive for a grainy crust on their loaves.
Pro Tip 3/3Sensory Experience
'Grainy' can also describe a tactile experience, not just visual.
She liked the grainy feeling of sand between her toes.
Pro Tip 1/3Texture Description
Use 'grainy' when describing foods or materials that have a rough or slightly bumpy feeling.
The grainy mustard added a rustic touch to the sandwich.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Bad
'Grainy' can be positive, describing desired textures in bread or condiments.
Artisan bakers often strive for a grainy crust on their loaves.
Pro Tip 3/3Sensory Experience
'Grainy' can also describe a tactile experience, not just visual.
She liked the grainy feeling of sand between her toes.
Pro Tip 1/3Texture Description
Use 'grainy' when describing foods or materials that have a rough or slightly bumpy feeling.
The grainy mustard added a rustic touch to the sandwich.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Bad
'Grainy' can be positive, describing desired textures in bread or condiments.
Artisan bakers often strive for a grainy crust on their loaves.
Pro Tip 3/3Sensory Experience
'Grainy' can also describe a tactile experience, not just visual.
She liked the grainy feeling of sand between her toes.
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Why people believe weird...
First of all, there was no theory of planetary rings. Second of all, his data was grainy and fuzzy, and he couldn't quite make out what he was looking at. So he wrote that he had seen -- "I have observed that the furthest planet has three bodies." And this is what he ended up concluding that he saw. So without a theory of planetary rings and with only grainy data,
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The Dark Side of Nature...
challenge is to get people to be interested in dark grainy images of the night but at the same time I've worked really hard to make them more attractive and I think you've got to a point where they're attractive enough to truly tell a story we can therefore the challenge then is to film in the deep ocean at night in color
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Distilling Jack Daniel's...
character now that you should be able to recognize the signature flavor characteristics but it minimizes any carryover and if you pick up the glass and swirl it and smell it it has a very strong grainy identity it's very obviously got a lot of corn which is the
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Climate 101: Glaciers PIPE...
when more snow piles up and melts. Soon after falling, the snow begins to become denser and more tightly packed. When new snow falls and buries the previous years snow, the bottom layer becomes even more compressed. The dense, grainy ice that has survived
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How a long-forgotten...
Now, what is a phage? The image that you see here was taken by an electron microscope. And that means what we see on the screen is in reality extremely tiny. The grainy thing in the middle with the head, the long body and a number of feet --
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The dawn of the age of...
Less than half a century ago, two courageous men landed on the moon, using computers that were less powerful than the phones in your pockets. Six hundred million humans watched them on grainy, black-and-white televisions.
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Safari Live - Day 333 PIPE...
changed what has changed if we switched from daylight to a very special camera called an infrared camera and as you can see it's got gray tones and it's a little bit more grainy but it gives us
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LA92 Panel - Live PIPE...
captured on videotape in Los Angeles this grainy security camera videotape graphically depicts the last few moments of fifteen-year-old Latasha Harlan's life store owner soon-ja dude thought 15
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The Secret Culture of...
hope to get a picture i wasn't going to press it too hard and i did after several attempts i did have one moment where i was close enough to make a frame very grainy sort of frame but but
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Fighting with...
deal with the bully without becoming a thug in return has been with me ever since I was a child I remember cousin I was about 13 glued to grainy black-and-white television in my parents
Video examples
Why people believe weird...
First of all, there was no theory of planetary rings. Second of all, his data was grainy and fuzzy, and he couldn't quite make out what he was looking at. So he wrote that he had seen -- "I have observed that the furthest planet has three bodies." And this is what he ended up concluding that he saw. So without a theory of planetary rings and with only grainy data,
Video examples
The Dark Side of Nature...
challenge is to get people to be interested in dark grainy images of the night but at the same time I've worked really hard to make them more attractive and I think you've got to a point where they're attractive enough to truly tell a story we can therefore the challenge then is to film in the deep ocean at night in color
Video examples
Distilling Jack Daniel's...
character now that you should be able to recognize the signature flavor characteristics but it minimizes any carryover and if you pick up the glass and swirl it and smell it it has a very strong grainy identity it's very obviously got a lot of corn which is the
Video examples
Climate 101: Glaciers PIPE...
when more snow piles up and melts. Soon after falling, the snow begins to become denser and more tightly packed. When new snow falls and buries the previous years snow, the bottom layer becomes even more compressed. The dense, grainy ice that has survived
Video examples
How a long-forgotten...
Now, what is a phage? The image that you see here was taken by an electron microscope. And that means what we see on the screen is in reality extremely tiny. The grainy thing in the middle with the head, the long body and a number of feet --
Video examples
The dawn of the age of...
Less than half a century ago, two courageous men landed on the moon, using computers that were less powerful than the phones in your pockets. Six hundred million humans watched them on grainy, black-and-white televisions.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 333 PIPE...
changed what has changed if we switched from daylight to a very special camera called an infrared camera and as you can see it's got gray tones and it's a little bit more grainy but it gives us
Video examples
LA92 Panel - Live PIPE...
captured on videotape in Los Angeles this grainy security camera videotape graphically depicts the last few moments of fifteen-year-old Latasha Harlan's life store owner soon-ja dude thought 15
Video examples
The Secret Culture of...
hope to get a picture i wasn't going to press it too hard and i did after several attempts i did have one moment where i was close enough to make a frame very grainy sort of frame but but
Video examples
Fighting with...
deal with the bully without becoming a thug in return has been with me ever since I was a child I remember cousin I was about 13 glued to grainy black-and-white television in my parents
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Alastair Reynolds
British Author
I've never had much interest in spinoffery - the idea of writing in someone else's universe generally leaves me cold - but 'Doctor Who' is different. I've grown up with it. It's been part of my life since I was tiny, watching Jon Pertwee on a grainy black and white television in Cornwall and being terrified out of my mind.
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Charles Stross
British Writer
One of my earliest recollections is being woken up at some ungodly hour in the morning by my parents and sat in front of the fairly new black and white television, watching a grainy image of a man in a white suit climbing down a ladder. It was the first moon landing, and I became a sort of spaceman, as many kids were.
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James Buchan
British Novelist
One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents, letters, diaries, grainy video, weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity.
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Chad Hurley
American Businessman
People want to see something authentic. If it's too polished and highly produced, people might not trust it as much. If it's grainy, if it's coming from a webcam, if it's someone standing there and talking their mind or sharing their thoughts, people trust it much more.
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Alex Guarnaschelli
American Chef
I've thrown vanilla beans into mustard. Nothing crazy or grainy, just normal dijon. It's great for duck. Smear some of that right on the duck, coupled with some roast plums, and it all comes together in that savory over sweet over savory over sweet way we all love.
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Daryl Gates
American Public Servant
No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head.
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Terry Teachout
American Critic
Most of us remember Nat King Cole as a vocalist. His warm, grainy baritone is still so closely identified with such familiar ballads as 'Stardust' and 'The Christmas Song' that it's hard to imagine anyone else performing them.
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Adriano Zumbo
Australian Chef
Temperature is the key to making a smooth custard butter cream. Some add the butter when the mixture's still hot but it tends to split and you end up with a grainy result. Wait for it to cool.
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Errol Morris
American Director
I don't believe truth is conveyed by style and presentation. I don't think that if it was grainy and full of handheld material, it would be any more truthful.
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Lisa Kristine
American Photographer
When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet it goes on.
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Alastair Reynolds
British Author
I've never had much interest in spinoffery - the idea of writing in someone else's universe generally leaves me cold - but 'Doctor Who' is different. I've grown up with it. It's been part of my life since I was tiny, watching Jon Pertwee on a grainy black and white television in Cornwall and being terrified out of my mind.
Quote examples
Charles Stross
British Writer
One of my earliest recollections is being woken up at some ungodly hour in the morning by my parents and sat in front of the fairly new black and white television, watching a grainy image of a man in a white suit climbing down a ladder. It was the first moon landing, and I became a sort of spaceman, as many kids were.
Quote examples
James Buchan
British Novelist
One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents, letters, diaries, grainy video, weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity.
Quote examples
Chad Hurley
American Businessman
People want to see something authentic. If it's too polished and highly produced, people might not trust it as much. If it's grainy, if it's coming from a webcam, if it's someone standing there and talking their mind or sharing their thoughts, people trust it much more.
Quote examples
Alex Guarnaschelli
American Chef
I've thrown vanilla beans into mustard. Nothing crazy or grainy, just normal dijon. It's great for duck. Smear some of that right on the duck, coupled with some roast plums, and it all comes together in that savory over sweet over savory over sweet way we all love.
Quote examples
Daryl Gates
American Public Servant
No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head.
Quote examples
Terry Teachout
American Critic
Most of us remember Nat King Cole as a vocalist. His warm, grainy baritone is still so closely identified with such familiar ballads as 'Stardust' and 'The Christmas Song' that it's hard to imagine anyone else performing them.
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Adriano Zumbo
Australian Chef
Temperature is the key to making a smooth custard butter cream. Some add the butter when the mixture's still hot but it tends to split and you end up with a grainy result. Wait for it to cool.
Quote examples
Errol Morris
American Director
I don't believe truth is conveyed by style and presentation. I don't think that if it was grainy and full of handheld material, it would be any more truthful.
Quote examples
Lisa Kristine
American Photographer
When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet it goes on.
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