graining

British  

/ ˈɡreɪnɪŋ /

noun

1. the pattern or texture of the grain of wood, leather, etc

2. the process of painting, printing, staining, etc, a surface in imitation of a grain

3. a surface produced by such a process

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Example Sentences

More importantly, in a race expected to be dominated by tyre graining, Ferrari’s tyre wear has looked if anything better than Red Bull’s this weekend.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2024

The first recorded flood was in 1780, just a few years after three Quaker brothers from Bucks County, Pa. — Joseph, Andrew and John Ellicott — founded what became a center of milling and graining.

From Washington Post • Aug. 8, 2016

Nohnan Lounsberry of Wilmington, for instance, received an 1873 patent for improving a machine for “pebbling and graining wet skins.”

From Washington Times • Mar. 12, 2016

The movement, an automatic Dubois-Dépraz 9000, is decorated with circular graining on the bridges and a snailed côtes de Genève motif on the rotor.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2013

When this state is reached the mass is ready for graining, which is accomplished by distributing salt brine or pickle or spreading dry salt over the surface of the soap.

From Soap-Making Manual A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation, Analysis and Control in the Modern Soap Plant. by Thomssen, E. G.