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grind

[grahynd]

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verb (used with object)

to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.

to reduce to fine particles, as by pounding or crushing; bray, triturate, or pulverize.

to oppress, torment, or crush: to grind the poor.

to rub harshly or gratingly; grate together; grit: to grind one's teeth.

to operate by turning a crank: to grind a hand organ.

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to produce by crushing or abrasion: to grind flour.

Slang. to annoy; irritate; irk: It really grinds me when he's late.

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verb (used without object)

to perform the operation of reducing to fine particles.

to rub harshly; grate.

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to be or become ground.

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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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Slang. (in a dance) to rotate the hips in a suggestive manner. Compare bump (def. 11).

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noun

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.

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Informal. an excessively diligent student.

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Slang. a dance movement in which the hips are rotated in a suggestive or erotic manner. Compare bump (def. 20).

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Verb phrase

20.

grind out,

to produce in a routine or mechanical way: to grind out magazine stories.

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

Related forms

grind·a·ble, adjective

grind·a·bil·i·ty, noun

grind·ing·ly, adverb

re·grind, verb, -ground, -grind·ing.

un·grind·a·ble, adjective

Synonyms
2. crush, powder, comminute, pound. 3. persecute, plague, afflict, trouble. 4. abrade.

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Example Sentences

If you go to business conferences, you know that at lunch it is definitely better to be seated next to a prince than a grind.

Many football teams use that strategy to grind out small gains from the backfield.

Those who insist there is are suspect of having a secret axe to grind.

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If you go to business conferences, you know that at lunch it is definitely better to be seated next to a prince than a grind.

Many football teams use that strategy to grind out small gains from the backfield.

Those who insist there is are suspect of having a secret axe to grind.

To catch the cave's fish, villagers grind the roots of barbasco, a plant collected in nearby mountains.

The breaking down of carbon compounds into basic building blocks is the daily grind of living organisms.

Buy spices whole and grind them as you need them, since they deteriorate quickly once ground.

Generally, users eat the buttons whole or grind them up into a powder that can be mixed into food or brewed into a tea.

Combine onion, garlic and ginger in food processor and grind to paste.

Those who succeed will find a life that's far removed from the grind of research universities.

But for many earnest students through the ages, it has been a frustrating grind.

The glaciers in the background grind the rocks underneath as they melt in the summer and produce rock flour.

Glaciers slowly grind their way over mountains and plains, moving immense boulders and carving out fjords.

Use the grind your coffee equipment is designed to handle.

As the show goes on, she moves around a bit, performing a bump and grind and bending over lasciviously.

The shepherds of this remote mountain settlement till the earth behind oaken plows and grind their corn between smooth stones.

Fear of failure did its share to keep me going, but that wasn't enough for me to grind it out on time.

The wheels of the laws grind slowly enough, but science proceeds even more hesitantly.

Relief because the long grind was over and the unattainable had been attained.

When you grind whole wheat into flour, you get the same blood sugar result as while flour.

To grind almonds, whirl in a food processor or blender.

Pinker, it's important to point out, has an axe to grind here.

People walk on them, scuff them and grind their heels into them.

The facility also has a pulper designed to grind food waste and cardboard into a pulp that will be composted.

Many more will grind through the process and be ground up by the process.

Farmers once used windmills to grind their grains and pump water.

The espresso grind size allows water to come into contact with more of the grounds as it is forced through them at high pressure.

Use the leaves whole or grind them with a lawn mower.

The wheels of justice grind slowly, however, so your courtroom triumph could be years in the making.

Bartenders who grind their palms opening too many twist-off beer caps may now find relief.

Furthermore, my home is my refuge from the grind of daily life.

The other two boast that they have the youth and freshness needed for what may well be an eight-year grind in opposition.

Stomach stones are rocks ingested by some animals to grind food in their digestive systems.

When the two come together, the ocean crust goes down, and those two plates really grind against each other.

After that release, established theories suggest, we're able to return to the grind a little refreshed.

Because countries could no longer devalue, they would be forced to undergo the hard grind of reform.

We take perfectly good fish and grind it up to feed to animals that simply should not be eating them.

Without this additional type of collaboration, research would grind to a halt.

Obviously, the grind will become much more difficult if it is more or less offset by euro appreciation.

Those with an axe to grind call it an overpriced, glorified truck stop, and that's fine.

At the firs whiff, every engine on every train will grind to a collective halt until the track is returned.

They add to the steady grind of poverty and malnutrition.

Most people daydream about escaping to an idyllic island to avoid the workday grind.

It is all in what axe you want to grind and the ffact that the public at large is appalling in its ignorance in sciences.

But diplomacy may well grind on in a higher gear for a while.

People learned to grind up pods from mesquite trees and make small cakes to eat.

To that, add scrap meat from all over the country, and grind.

But without their evidence the trial might grind to a halt.

Each pushes forward in the grip of her primordial needs, until sheer muscle overcomes friction and they grind past each other.

Confirmed by archeology, eg stones used to grind grain.

Before trying to grind an axe, perhaps try to avoid looking silly by reading the article properly.

Imagine you're on a hike and grind the front of your lens against a rock.

Tectonic plates float around and grind against each other on the fluid mantel.

While other economies would grind to a halt, their population would presumably stay mobile and productive.

Snakes are stressful and working with them is a mental grind.

Farmers used to grind stones into a powder which they spread on their fields to maintain healthy nutrient rich soils.

Makes you want to go to your local butcher's shop, pick out a piece of chuck, and watch him grind it.

They used it to grind grain to make bread, which was the main part of their diet.

The train has barely left the station when he starts to get the heavy-lidded look of one who's been at the grind hard.

But run both at once and the internet seems to grind to a halt.

When glaciers meet at the top of a mountain, they can grind it into a horn.

Very good article, and sure to be misquoted and abused by those that have an axe to grind.

Others without a commercial axe to grind agree with him.

There was once an attempt to grind krill for use as chicken feed.

Grind up the charcoal and dig it into your soil to improve water retention meaning less watering needed.

She's poor, so she rather than feeding the grains to her animals, she and her family grind and directly consume them.

My partner's website is slowly moving up in the world, which is quite a grind.

If ammonia-scented beef doesn't sound appetizing, grind your own.

But without them, industries worth trillions of dollars would grind to a halt.

Strike-slip faults, where plates grind against each other, store stress differently.

Much of this neural firepower comes to bear in the elaborate daily grind of digestion.

Behind you is a small square and playground, decorated with three millstones, once used to grind local olives into oil.

Flower pot: break it, grind up the shards, and use it for kitty litter.

Manhattan's usually crawling traffic will grind to a halt as gridlock rules from dusk to.

Starbucks would once again grind beans in the store.

Its superior technology seems to pitilessly grind up its rivals.

Too many researchers grind out endless mountains of numbers that can be generated by the extraordinary technologies of our era.

Yet it could equally be a cause for concern: higher borrowing costs could cause the recovery to grind to a halt.

Hard-drive impact sensor safeguards data from everyday bump and grind.

They are abrading tools, used to grind away excess material and to.

Go for the whole beans and grind them on an as-needed basis.

Peel's record in the grind of government was one of solid achievement.

The plates grind past each other there at as much as an inch-and-a-half a year.

He was flicking through channels the other night, looking to break the monotony of another playoff grind.

They are invitations to grind axes without any fear of challenge or discovery.

Sacking a contractor can mean that factories grind to a halt, bills languish unpaid and chaos mounts.

Consequently, enrolment in clinical trials--already often a long and difficult process--can grind to a halt.

All the military's expensive programs grind to a halt.

Don't fret about details of the day-to-day grind of the job and content mastery.

Hydropower has been in play for thousands of year-an original use was to grind grain at small mills.

Your only real options are to grind for levels or embark upon side quests for extra experience and gear.

But the isolation can also really grind parents down.

If something goes wrong-and it often does-business will quickly grind to a halt.

Farmers used to grind stones to spread on their fields to maintain healthy levels of trace elements in their soils.

But cases of extreme wear are found in people who grind their teeth.

Anyone with an ounce of common sense who doesn't have an axe to grind or an agenda to promote can see this.

They grind up the quartz, then put it on shaking tables to separate the lighter quartz from heavier.

It's the last category that often leads government watchdogs to grind their teeth.

Know your enemy, and don't reason with people who have an ax to grind.

And some commenters here may have some inside axe to grind against roxbury86.

And they all made the transition from the glitter of the sports world to the daily grind of business.

All colleges will have bitter ex-employees or former teachers with an axe to grind.

But whatever happens, creativity is unlikely to grind to a halt.

Put the pecan meats into the container of an electric blender or spice mill and grind until fine.

If he's gonna be any damn good, he's gotta grind it out.

Machines grind the plastics into flakes and immerse them in a flotation tank to remove contaminants.

Place the hazelnuts in a food processor and grind coarsely.

Such robots are useful in foundries that cut and grind components.

Paddle wheels used to grind grain are an early example.

If it is not, then toast and grind some of the chili seeds and add them to the soup.

Her life became a relentless grind of study, followed by mock exams, followed by more study.

Many may find their country's politics an exasperating distraction from the grind of daily life.

The presence of gastroliths-stones ingested by animals to grind food in the gut-indicates that this species was a plant-eater.

Combine remaining ingredients in a blender or food processor and grind to a coarse paste.

Trying to get anything substantial and interesting done always slams into the grind of the bureaucracy.

What's the average citizen to do as they watch their already shaky economy grind to halt.

Asbestos is only dangerous when you grind it up and breathe it.

We are talking about about pathological personalities who have an axe to grind.

When the goal is unclear, the gears grind to a halt.

It had a large, worn groove in it that had surely been used to grind corn and sorghum.

Chop the dried mushrooms coarsely and grind to a fine powder in a spice mill or use a mortar and pestle.

Grind beef and saute in its own fat in a medium-hot nonstick skillet.

Coarsely chop the graham crackers, place in a food processor and grind completely.

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World English Dictionary

grind (ɡraɪnd)

—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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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

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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.

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Slang Dictionary

grind definition

in.
to sell drugs. : He told the cops he wasn't grinding, but they found his junk.

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.