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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
grape
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bunch of grapes
▪ She served the cheese with a bunch of black grapes.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
▪ Halve and seen three black grapes.
sour
▪ It may sound like sour grapes but I assure you I feel no bitterness merely disappointed.
▪ Sounds like sour grapes to me.
▪ Are these just bad vibes and sour grapes or is hip hop just too naughty by nature for the mainstream?
▪ Already one began to hear the nickname Suicide Langford; but that was either sour grapes or silly sensationalism.
▪ There is certainly no defensiveness nor any sour grapes from me or any of the Editing for Industry committee.
▪ Envy and sour grapes had their customary party.
▪ This was sour grapes, a far-off voice of wisdom suggested.
▪ Criticisms from ex-players, in my opinion, are nothing but sour grapes.
white
▪ Classification of Coligny's white grapes jumped from 85% to 90% in 1985, assuming premier cru status.
▪ The white wine grapes of the Rhone can be equally intriguing and also have received the Rhone Rangers' attention.
▪ Sultanas are dried white seedless grapes and have a sweeter flavour than either currants or raisins.
▪ They are the traditional white grapes of Hermitage, though some growers have sworn off the notoriously fickle roussanne.
■ NOUN
harvest
▪ It was estimated that 20 percent of the grape harvest had been lost.
▪ Despite an 11 percent increase in the 1995 California grape harvest, wine prices for consumers will still go up.
▪ We have seasons that seem to revolve round the grape harvest.
▪ But after three relatively small grape harvests in a row coupled with continuing strong consumer demand, grape prices continue to increase.
▪ August brought the grape harvest, centered in Fresno.
juice
▪ Slowly add the grape juice to the bowl and whisk.
▪ Have each student dip a cotton swab in purple grape juice and rub it over the paper.
▪ Felicia slides her glass forward and he refills it with grape juice.
▪ It has about one sip of grape juice remaining at the bottom.
variety
▪ Which of the following grape varieties is the odd one out? 4.
▪ At that time, grape varieties weren't exactly classified, but Chardonnay, for instance, could have been among them.
▪ Chardonnay is an amazingly versatile grape variety.
▪ Müller-Thurgau is the grape variety, an early ripening and highly flavoured variety, much favoured along the Upper Rhine.
▪ Each month we will take you through the major wine-producing areas of the world, highlighting the leading grape varieties.
▪ What is unique about champagne is the particular combination of soil and grape varieties.
▪ Even efforts with their best grape varieties seemed to produce wines that could never shake off a legacy of bitterness.
■ VERB
grow
▪ We even grew grapes on the side of our houses.
▪ Her daddy was a nurseryman and grew tomatoes and grapes and hothouse plants and flowers in his glasshouses.
make
▪ Why do we generally make wine from grapes rather than any other fruit?
▪ A typical example is Chteau de Valandraud, made from grapes grown on a tiny patch of vineyard in St-Emilion.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sour grapes
▪ Brown said his rival's comments were just sour grapes..
▪ Whatever I say about my ex-wife will probably sound like sour grapes.
▪ Already one began to hear the nickname Suicide Langford; but that was either sour grapes or silly sensationalism.
▪ Are these just bad vibes and sour grapes or is hip hop just too naughty by nature for the mainstream?
▪ Criticisms from ex-players, in my opinion, are nothing but sour grapes.
▪ Envy and sour grapes had their customary party.
▪ It may sound like sour grapes but I assure you I feel no bitterness merely disappointed.
▪ Sounds like sour grapes to me.
▪ There is certainly no defensiveness nor any sour grapes from me or any of the Editing for Industry committee.
▪ This was sour grapes, a far-off voice of wisdom suggested.
tread grapes
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a bunch of grapes
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He stood at the window eating grapes from a paper bag torn open down the side.
▪ Higher up, position a ring of grape hyacinth bulbs.
▪ Slowly add the grape juice to the bowl and whisk.
▪ The merlot grape dominates this medium-to full-bodied wine.
▪ This allows the complexities of the grape to shine through, a quality inherent in all great wines.
▪ This is not the case with sugar, honey, grape must, cloves and other spices which increase its merit.
▪ Try Concord grapes for their jagged leaves.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grape

Grape \Grape\, n. [OF. grape, crape, bunch or cluster of grapes, F. grappe, akin to F. grappin grapnel, hook; fr. OHG. chrapfo hook, G. krapfen, akin to E. cramp. The sense seems to have come from the idea of clutching. Cf. Agraffe, Cramp, Grapnel, Grapple.]

  1. (Bot.) A well-known edible berry growing in pendent clusters or bunches on the grapevine. The berries are smooth-skinned, have a juicy pulp, and are cultivated in great quantities for table use and for making wine and raisins.

  2. (Bot.) The plant which bears this fruit; the grapevine.

  3. (Man.) A mangy tumor on the leg of a horse.

  4. (Mil.) Grapeshot.

    Grape borer. (Zo["o]l.) See Vine borer.

    Grape curculio (Zo["o]l.), a minute black weevil ( Craponius in[ae]qualis) which in the larval state eats the interior of grapes.

    Grape flower, or

    Grape hyacinth (Bot.), a liliaceous plant ( Muscari racemosum) with small blue globular flowers in a dense raceme.

    Grape fungus (Bot.), a fungus ( Oidium Tuckeri) on grapevines; vine mildew.

    Grape hopper (Zo["o]l.), a small yellow and red hemipterous insect, often very injurious to the leaves of the grapevine.

    Grape moth (Zo["o]l.), a small moth ( Eudemis botrana), which in the larval state eats the interior of grapes, and often binds them together with silk.

    Grape of a cannon, the cascabel or knob at the breech.

    Grape sugar. See Glucose.

    Grape worm (Zo["o]l.), the larva of the grape moth.

    Sour grapes, things which persons affect to despise because they can not possess them; -- in allusion to [AE]sop's fable of the fox and the grapes.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
grape

mid-13c., from Old French grape "bunch of grapes, grape" (12c.), probably a back-formation from graper "steal; grasp; catch with a hook; pick (grapes)," from a Frankish or other Germanic word, from Proto-Germanic *krappon "hook" (cognates: Middle Dutch crappe, Old High German krapfo "hook;" also see cramp (n.2)). The original notion perhaps was "vine hook for grape-picking." The vine is not native to England. The word replaced Old English winberige "wine berry." Spanish grapa, Italian grappa also are Germanic loan-words.

Wiktionary
grape

a. 1 contain grapes or having a grape flavor. 2 Of a dark purplish red colour. n. 1 (context countable English) A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on vines of genus ''Vitis''. 2 (context countable English) A woody vine that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine. 3 (context countable uncountable English) A dark purple red colour, the colour of many grapes. 4 (context uncountable English) grapeshot. 5 A mangy tumour on a horse's leg.

WordNet
grape
  1. n. any of various juicy purple- or green-skinned fruit of the genus Vitis; grow in clusters

  2. any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries [syn: grapevine]

Gazetteer
Wikipedia
GRAPE
For the Tokyo University supercomputer, see Gravity Pipe.

GRAPE (Computers), or GRAphics Programming Environment is a software development environment for mathematical visualization, especially differential geometry and continuum mechanics. In 1994, it won the European Academic Software Award.

The term graphical refers to the applications; the programming itself is mostly based on C. GRAPE was developed by the University of Bonn in Germany and is available for free for non-commercial purposes. It has not been developed actively since 1998.

The GRAPE Manual says the following about GRAPE

  • GRAPE Homepage
  • GRAPE Summary
  • GRAPE Manual
Grape (disambiguation)

A grape is a fruit that grows on the vines of plants in the genus Vitis.

Grape or Grapes may also refer to:

  • Don Cherry, Canadian hockey legend and commentator, nicknamed "Grapes"
  • Grape, a four-pronged, long-handled fork, similar to a pitchfork
  • Grape, any of various high-grade, purple marijuana cultivars
  • GRAPE, a computer programming environment
  • Grape (color), a shade of violet that resembles grapes.
  • Grapeshot, a kind of ballistic projectile
  • Grapes (film), a 2008 Czech film
  • Grapes (surname)
  • Gravity Pipe, a Tokyo University supercomputer (abbreviated GRAPE)
  • Groovy Adaptable Packaging Engine, alternately called the Groovy Advanced Packaging Engine (GRAPE)

Usage examples of "grape".

I would I were the Bacchus on this cup, with the purple grapes adangle above me.

This appetite for grapes is so well confirmed by Aesop, and by passages in the Scriptures, that it is strange Mr.

And so, very, very carefully, Andromeda bedded down the little floppy-limbed puppy at the bottom of her basket, and covered his weak protesting form with flowers and white grapes and a pink handkerchief.

The Italians, according to Toby, pushed their grapes, and the Barbera was suffering a loss of quality.

Grapes made him think of Grapeshot and he wondered if the bastards up ahead were equipped with canister.

The tang of grape bubblegum mixes with the musk of drugstore aftershave.

It was in the season of the wild grapes that Zach saw that the bushbuck ewe was growing restless.

It was her last bottle, but the resonance was far better, the catalyzing effect upon the herbs more profound, than if she had used ordinary grape wine or even ale.

Napa and Sonoma, with the picking of pinot noir, chardonnay, pinot blanc, and pinot meunier, the grape varieties of champagne.

Before night the parties were all in, one detachment bearing the body of the bob-tailed catamount swung over a pole, like the mighty cluster of grapes from Eshcol, and another conveying with wise precaution that monstrous snapping-turtle which those of our friends who wish to see will find among the specimens marked Chelydra, Serpentine in the great collection at Cantabridge.

The waiter began to sing about the Chianti grapes in a beautiful operatic voice.

At this altitude of 6,000 feet one must learn to be content with varieties of Coniferae, for, except for aspens, which spring up in some places where the pines have been cleared away, and for cotton-woods, which at a lower level fringe the streams, there is nothing but the bear cherry, the raspberry, the gooseberry, the wild grape, and the wild currant.

Grombalia plain was sliding by: drought-burned fields of grape vines, and the sawback of the Djebel Abderrahman towering over them.

She had been thinking about their Saturday night pizza, which Helen insisted on ordering from one of those gourmet places that served pizza with things like shrimp and chicken fajitas and even stuffed grape leaves.

Peanuts are high in monounsaturated fats and also contain resveratrol, the same antioxidant found in grapes and wine.