grind
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verb (used with object)
1.
to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.
2.
to reduce to fine particles, as by pounding or crushing; bray, triturate, or pulverize.
3.
to oppress, torment, or crush: to grind the poor.
4.
to rub harshly or gratingly; grate together; grit: to grind one's teeth.
5.
to operate by turning a crank: to grind a hand organ.
verb (used without object)
8.
to perform the operation of reducing to fine particles.
9.
to rub harshly; grate.
10.
to be or become ground.
11.
to be polished or sharpened by friction.
12.
Informal. to work or study laboriously (often followed by away ): He was grinding away at his algebra.
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noun
Verb phrases 14.
the act of grinding.
15.
a grinding sound.
16.
a grade of particle fineness into which a substance is ground: The coffee is available in various grinds for different coffee makers.
17.
laborious, usually uninteresting work: Copying all the footnotes was a grind.
18.
Informal. an excessively diligent student.
20.
grind out,
a.
to produce in a routine or mechanical way: to grind out magazine stories.
b.
to extinguish by rubbing the lighted end against a hard surface: to grind out a cigarette.
Origin:
before 950; Middle English grinden, Old English grindan; akin to Gothic grinda-, Latin frendere
before 950; Middle English grinden, Old English grindan; akin to Gothic grinda-, Latin frendere
Related forms
grind·a·ble, adjective
grind·a·bil·i·ty, noun
grind·ing·ly, adverb
re·grind, verb, re·ground, re·grind·ing.
un·grind·a·ble, adjective
Synonyms
2. crush, powder, comminute, pound. 3. persecute, plague, afflict, trouble. 4. abrade.
2. crush, powder, comminute, pound. 3. persecute, plague, afflict, trouble. 4. abrade.
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World English Dictionary
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| —vb (foll by out) (often foll by down) (foll by out) (foll by out) (often foll by into) , grinds, grinding, ground | |
| 1. | to reduce or be reduced to small particles by pounding or abrading: to grind corn; to grind flour |
| 2. | (tr) to smooth, sharpen, or polish by friction or abrasion: to grind a knife |
| 3. | to scrape or grate together (two things, esp the teeth) with a harsh rasping sound or (of such objects) to be scraped together |
| 4. | to speak or say (something) in a rough voice |
| 5. | to hold down; oppress; tyrannize |
| 6. | (tr) to operate (a machine) by turning a handle |
| 7. | to produce in a routine or uninspired manner: he ground out his weekly article for the paper |
| 8. | to continue to play in a dull or insipid manner: the band only ground out old tunes all evening |
| 9. | to instil (facts, information, etc) by persistent effort: they ground into the recruits the need for vigilance |
| 10. | informal (intr) to study or work laboriously |
| 11. | chiefly (US) (intr) to dance erotically by rotating the pelvis (esp in the phrase bump and grind) |
| —n | |
| 12. | informal laborious or routine work or study |
| 13. | slang chiefly (US) a person, esp a student, who works excessively hard |
| 14. | a specific grade of pulverization, as of coffee beans: coarse grind |
| 15. | slang (Brit) the act of sexual intercourse |
| 16. | chiefly (US) a dance movement involving an erotic rotation of the pelvis |
| 17. | the act or sound of grinding |
| [Old English grindan; related to Latin frendere, Lithuanian gréndu I rub, Low German grand sand] | |
| 'grindingly | |
| —adv | |
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
grind
O.E. grindan, forgrindan "destroy by crushing" (class III strong verb; past tense grand, pp. grunden), from P.Gmc. *grindanan (cf. Du. grenden), related to ground, from PIE *ghrendh- "crushing" (cf. L. frendere "to gnash the teeth," Gk. khondros "corn, grain," Lith. grendu "to scrape, scratch"). The
noun sense "steady, hard work" first recorded 1851 in college student slang; the meaning "hard-working student" is Amer.Eng. slang from 1864. Grinder as a type of large sandwich is first recorded 1954. To keep one's nose to the grindstone was originally to get control of another and treat him harshly:
"This Text holdeth their noses so hard to the grindstone, that it clean disfigureth their Faces." [Frith, "Mirror to know Thyself," 1532]The main modern (reflective) sense of "work hard" is from 1828.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Slang Dictionary
grind definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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FOLDOC
Computing Dictionary
GRIND definition
GRaphical INterpretive Display.
A graphics input language for the PDP-9.
["GRIND: A Language and Translator for Computer Graphics", A.P. Conn, Dartmouth, June 1969].
[Jargon File]
(1995-01-31)
grind definition
1. (MIT and Berkeley) To prettify hardcopy of code, especially LISP code, by reindenting lines, printing keywords and comments in distinct fonts (if available), etc. This usage was associated with the MacLISP community and is now rare; prettyprint was and is the generic term for such operations.
2. (Unix) To generate the formatted version of a document from the nroff, troff, TeX, or Scribe source.
3. To run seemingly interminably, especially (but not necessarily) if performing some tedious and inherently useless task. Similar to crunch or grovel. Grinding has a connotation of using a lot of CPU time, but it is possible to grind a disk, network, etc.
See also hog.
4. To make the whole system slow. "Troff really grinds a PDP-11."
5. "grind grind" excl. Roughly, "Isn't the machine slow today!"
[Jargon File]
(1994-12-16)
Easton
Bible Dictionary
Grind definition
(Ex. 32:20; Deut. 9:21; Judg. 16:21), to crush small (Heb. tahan); to oppress the poor (Isa. 3:5). The hand-mill was early used by the Hebrews (Num. 11:8). It consisted of two stones, the upper (Deut. 24:6; 2 Sam. 11:21) being movable and slightly concave, the lower being stationary. The grinders mentioned Eccl. 12:3 are the teeth. (See MILL.)
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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American Heritage
Idioms & Phrases
grind
In addition to the idiom beginning with grind, also see ax to grind; mills of the gods grind slowly.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Example sentences
In the bowl was a deep blue powder, made finer and finer with each grind of the pestle.
Grind, mill or otherwise comminute the entire sample.
Chop the dried mushrooms coarsely and grind to a fine powder in a spice mill or use a mortar and pestle.
Glaciers slowly grind their way over mountains and plains, moving immense boulders and carving out fjords.
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