Grind
[graɪnd] or [ɡraɪnd]
Definition
(noun.) the act of grinding to a powder or dust.
(noun.) the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground; 'a coarse grind of coffee'.
(verb.) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading; 'grind the spices in a mortar'; 'mash the garlic'.
(verb.) shape or form by grinding; 'grind lenses for glasses and cameras'.
(verb.) created by grinding; 'grind designs into the glass bowl'.
(verb.) dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced.
Editor: Vince--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones.
(v. t.) To wear down, polish, or sharpen, by friction; to make smooth, sharp, or pointed; to whet, as a knife or drill; to rub against one another, as teeth, etc.
(v. t.) To oppress by severe exactions; to harass.
(v. t.) To study hard for examination.
(v. i.) To perform the operation of grinding something; to turn the millstones.
(v. i.) To become ground or pulverized by friction; as, this corn grinds well.
(v. i.) To become polished or sharpened by friction; as, glass grinds smooth; steel grinds to a sharp edge.
(v. i.) To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
(v. i.) To perform hard aud distasteful service; to drudge; to study hard, as for an examination.
(n.) The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
(n.) Any severe continuous work or occupation; esp., hard and uninteresting study.
(n.) A hard student; a dig.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Triturate, pulverize, bruise, bray, CRAZE, comminute by attrition.[2]. Sharpen (by rubbing).[3]. Grate, rub together.[4]. Oppress, harass, persecute, plague, trouble, afflict, be hard upon.
Checker: Rosalind
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Crush, pulverize,[See OPPRESS]
Editor: Pedro
Definition
v.t. to reduce to powder by friction: to wear down or sharpen by rubbing: to rub together: to oppress or harass: to set in motion by a crank.—v.i. to be moved or rubbed together: to drudge at any tedious task: to read hard:—pr.p. grīnd′ing; pa.t. and pa.p. ground.—n. hard or distasteful work: laborious study for a special examination &c.—ns. Grind′er he who or that which grinds: a double or jaw tooth that grinds food: a coach or crammer of students for examination: a hard student; Grind′ery a place where knives &c. are ground or where they are sold: shoemakers' materials; Grind′ing act or process of reducing to powder.—p.adj. harassing.—n. Grind′stone a circular revolving stone for grinding or sharpening tools.—Keep one's nose to the grindstone to subject one to severe continuous toil or punishment.—Take a grinder (Dickens) to put the left thumb to the nose and to work a visionary coffee-mill round it with the right—a gesture of contempt.
Checker: Roderick
Examples
- Grind the drugs to a moderately fine powder and mix them with the oils and gums. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Now there are days--I suspect the vast majority of them in most of our lives--when we grind out the thing that is stamped upon us. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Amid the droning of the wind there had come the stamping of a horse's hoofs, and the long grind of a wheel as it rasped against the curb. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The principal crop is corn, and they raise it and grind it just as their great-great-great-grandfathers did. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- And there is but one tune, and its name is Grind, Grind, Grind! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It's this way, you see: I've had a pretty steady grind of it these last years, working up my social position. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- If he was left alive till I came, I'd grind his skull under the iron heel of my boot into as many grains as there are hairs upon his head. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- She laughed, and the Major did too, at his droll figure on donkey-back, with his long legs touching the ground. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The ground was torn up and in front of my head there was a splintered beam of wood. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Placing one end of my harness strap in his hands I lowered him quickly to the ground below. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The coloring substances are pulverized and the mixture ground. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- I vaulted to the ground below and ran swiftly toward the advancing party. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- He looked vacantly upon the crowd, and fell heavily to the ground. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The camera obscura consisted of a box with a lens at one end and a ground glass at the other, just like a modern camera. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They have a kind of hard flints, which, by grinding against other stones, they form into instruments, that serve instead of wedges, axes, and hammers. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- One of these consists of the crushing and grinding machinery, and the other of the long kilns. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The pulp was laid by hand upon moulds made of parallel strands of coarse brass wire; and the making of the pulp by grinding wood and treating it chemically to soften it was experimental. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The table is then pushed under a huge grinding machine and the slate surface is made plane, as nearly perfect as human ingenuity can make it. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I catch him coming on post, again pass him as unaware of his existence, and again he undergoes grinding torments. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- These chunks are then run through grinding machines, which reduce the chicle to a coarse meal. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The diamond is the hardest known substance in the world, cutting and grinding all other known hard things, but itself only cut and ground by its mates. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Why, now comes my master, takes me right away from my work, and my friends, and all I like, and grinds me down into the very dirt! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- But when it is ready, it takes place, and grinds to pieces everything before it. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The chief of machines with _ores_ is the _ore mill_, which not only breaks up the ore but grinds or pulverises it. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The world grinds on: we are a fly on the wheel. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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