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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To form into grains or granules.
  2. v. To make rough and grainy.
  3. v. To become granular or grainy.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To form into grains: as, to granulate powder or sugar.
  2. To raise in granules; make rough on the surface.
  3. To become formed into grains; become granular.
  4. Same as granulated or granular.

Wiktionary

  1. v. to segment into tiny grains or particles
  2. adj. Consisting of, or resembling, grains; crystallized in grains; granular.
  3. adj. Having numerous small elevations, like shagreen.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To form into grains or small masses.
  2. v. To raise in granules or small asperities; to make rough on the surface.
  3. v. To collect or be formed into grains.
  4. adj. Consisting of, or resembling, grains; crystallized in grains; granular.
  5. adj. Having numerous small elevations, as shagreen.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. form granulating tissue
  2. v. become granular
  3. v. form into grains

Examples

  • “Dry air conveyance to a just-in-time feeding unit, which minimizes the quantities of material present on the injection molding machine, is used to prevent remoistening of the dried granulate, which is an important asset especially in tropical regions.”

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  • “It washes, classifies, mills and converts plastic waste into granulate, which is used to make new plastic products.”

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  • “A doctor can suture two pieces of skin together, but there is some capacity that lies beyond our ken, some talent that resides only within each one of us that allows that tissue to granulate and be reformed.”

    The Huffington Post: Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: Verbal First Aid: Healing Children's Pain and Fear With Words

  • “You cannot granulate chewing gum and force it through an injection moulding machine .. no moulder in their right mind would do this for the sake of a marketing gimmick.”

    THE BUBBLE GUM BIN – Made From ‘Recycled’ Gum! | Inhabitat

  • “Prior to processing Luxus clean and granulate the tanks.”

    Archive 2008-09-01

  • “‘Bin 2 Bin’ closed loop recycling involves shredding and granulating wheeled bins and boxes, melting and mixing granulate with additives and colours ready for processing into new bins and boxes.”

    Archive 2008-11-01

  • ““When we first started, we noticed that it was not very porous and had a difficult time mixing in with the soil, so we developed a machine to granulate the manure.””

    Simon & Schuster: Flushed

  • “Add the granulate sugar and beat for 2 minutes; add the light brown sugar and beat for a further 2 minutes.”

    foodbeam » 2006 » July

  • “The idea was to allow the wound to heal slightly granulate, for you folks in the biz so that the graft would stand a better chance of taking.”

    Archive 2005-10-01

  • “I wasn't letting him out of sight until the incision had begun to granulate-which it should do by the next day, if all went well.”

    A Breath of Snow and Ashes

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  1. granulate
  2. incarnate
  1. corn
  2. kern
  1. grain
  2. prosopon
  1. runner-ball
  2. sugar
  1. shot samples
  2. break
  1. seed

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