Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
made grainy or formed into granules;
- Example: "granulated sugar"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
granulate \gran"u*late\ (gr[a^]n"[-u]*l[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Granulated (gr[a^]n"[-u]*l[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n.
Granulating (gr[a^]n"[-u]*l[=a]`t[i^]ng).] [See Granule.]
1. To form into grains or small masses; as, to granulate
powder, sugar, or metal.
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2. To raise in granules or small asperities; to make rough on
the surface.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Granulate \Gran"u*late\, Granulated \Gran"u*la`ted\, a.
1. Consisting of, or resembling, grains; crystallized in
grains; granular; as, granulated sugar.
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2. Having numerous small elevations, as shagreen.
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Granulated steel, a variety of steel made by a particular
process beginning with the granulation of pig iron.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
granulated
adj 1: made grainy or formed into granules; "granulated sugar"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
81 Moby Thesaurus words for "granulated":
arenaceous, arenarious, backed, breccial, brecciated, broken,
bumpy, calcified, callous, calloused, case-hardened, choppy,
coarse, coarse-grained, corrugated, cross-grained, crusted, crusty,
crystallized, fossilized, grained, grainy, granular, granulate,
gravelly, gritty, gross, hardened, homespun, hornified,
horripilant, incrusted, indurate, indurated, inequal, irregular,
jolty, lapidified, linsey-woolsey, ossified, pebbled, pebbly,
petrified, pimply, pitted, pocky, potholed, rank, reinforced,
rigidified, ripply, rough, rough-cast, rough-grained, rough-hewn,
ruffled, rutted, rutty, sabulous, sandy, sclerotic, set, shagged,
shaggy, shingled, shingly, solidified, steeled, stiffened,
strengthened, textured, toughened, uneven, unkempt, unlevel,
unpolished, unrefined, unsmooth, ununiform, vitrified, wimpled