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adjective

fine-grained adj.

Consisting of fine particles.

Synonyms: powdered, powdery, pulverized, small-grained.

Dense or compact in structure or texture, as a wood composed of small-diameter cells.

Synonyms: close-grained.

Involving careful consideration of details and fine distinctions; of conceptual schemas; as, fine-grained distinctions.

Synonyms: detailed.

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Etymology of 'Fine-grained'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... from the academic, the conventional. This was bitter, because he had always so loved beautiful lines, beautiful tints, had insisted that the very texture, of his painting should have the beauty of fine-grained skin. ...

— Aurora the Magnificent • Gertrude Hall

... and as every cavity, no doubt, ultimately becomes filled with spathose limestone, slabs of the rock taken from a considerable depth, would, if polished, probably exhibit the excavations of such burrowing animals. The conglomerate and fine-grained beds of coral-rock would be hard, sonorous, white and composed of nearly pure calcareous matter; in some few parts, judging from the specimens at Keeling atoll, they would probably contain a small quantity of iron. Floating pumice and scoriae, ...

— Coral Reefs • Charles Darwin

... could not stay here now when she had seen Richard red and glazed and like those wranglers in the street, and not pale and fine-grained and more splendid and deliberate than kings. She could not tell what her life might come to if she trusted it into the sweaty hands of this man whom, as it turned out, she did not know. Which of these horrid paths to disappointment must she tread? In her brooding she stared at her face in the glass ...

— The Judge • Rebecca West

... means. It is difficult otherwise to understand the source of the 18 inches of sandy loam, which differed from the overlying dark vegetable mould, after both had been burnt, only in being of a brighter red colour, and in not being quite so fine-grained. But on this view we must suppose that the carbon in vegetable mould, when it lies at some little depth beneath the surface and does not continually receive decaying vegetable matter from above, loses its dark colour in the course of centuries; but whether this is probable ...

— The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the action of worms with • Charles Darwin

... particularly memorable because its strata have yielded two fine specimens of the first known bird, Archaeopteryx. These were entombed in the deposits which formed the fine-grained lithographic stones of Bavaria, and practically every bone in the body is preserved except the breast-bone. Even the feathers have left their marks with distinctness. This oldest known bird—too far advanced to be the first ...

— The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) - A Plain Story Simply Told • J. Arthur Thomson

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