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grind

  [grahynd] verb, ground or (Rare) grind⋅ed; grind⋅ing; noun
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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.
6. to produce by crushing or abrasion: to grind flour.
7. Slang. to annoy; irritate; irk: It really grinds me when he's late.
–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 fol. by away): He was grinding away at his algebra.
13. Slang. (in a dance) to rotate the hips in a suggestive manner. Compare bump (def. 11).
–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.
18. Informal. an excessively diligent student.
19. Slang. a dance movement in which the hips are rotated in a suggestive or erotic manner. Compare bump (def. 20).
—Verb phrase
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:
bef. 950; ME grinden, OE grindan; akin to Goth grinda-, L frendere

Related forms:
grind⋅a⋅ble, adjective
grind⋅a⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, noun
grind⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
2. crush, powder, comminute, pound. 3. persecute, plague, afflict, trouble. 4. abrade.
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grind   (grīnd)   
v.   ground (ground), grind·ing, grinds

v.   tr.
    1. To crush, pulverize, or reduce to powder by friction, especially by rubbing between two hard surfaces: grind wheat into flour.
    2. To shape, sharpen, or refine with friction: grind a lens.
    3. To operate by turning a crank: ground a hurdy-gurdy.
    4. To produce or process by turning a crank: grinding a pound of beef.
  2. To rub (two surfaces) together harshly; gnash: grind the teeth.
  3. To bear down on harshly; crush.
  4. To oppress or weaken gradually: "Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law" (Oliver Goldsmith).
    1. To operate by turning a crank: ground a hurdy-gurdy.
    2. To produce or process by turning a crank: grinding a pound of beef.
  6. To produce mechanically or without inspiration: The factory grinds out a uniform product.
  7. To instill or teach by persistent repetition: ground the truth into their heads.
v.   intr.
  1. To perform the operation of grinding something.
  2. To become crushed, pulverized, or powdered by friction.
  3. To move with noisy friction; grate: a train grinding along rusty rails.
  4. Informal To devote oneself to study or work: grinding for a test; grinding away at housework.
  5. Slang To rotate the pelvis erotically, as in the manner of a stripteaser.
n.  
  1. The act of grinding.
  2. A crunching or grinding noise.
  3. A specific grade or degree of pulverization, as of coffee beans: drip grind.
  4. Informal A laborious task, routine, or study: the daily grind.
  5. Informal A student who works or studies excessively.
  6. Slang An erotic rotation of the pelvis.

[Middle English grinden, from Old English grindan; see ghrendh- in Indo-European roots.]
grind'ing·ly adv.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Grind

Grind\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ground; p. pr. & vb. n. Grinding.] [AS. grindan; perh. akin to L. frendere to gnash, grind. Cf. Grist.]

1. 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.

Take the millstones, and grind meal. --Is. xivii. 2.

2. 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.

3. To oppress by severe exactions; to harass.

To grind the subject or defraud the prince. --Dryden.

4. To study hard for examination. [College Slang]

Grind

Grind\, v. i. 1. To perform the operation of grinding something; to turn the millstones.

Send thee Into the common prison, there to grind. --Milton.

2. To become ground or pulverized by friction; as, this corn grinds well.

3. To become polished or sharpened by friction; as, glass grinds smooth; steel grinds to a sharp edge.

4. To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.

5. To perform hard aud distasteful service; to drudge; to study hard, as for an examination. --Farrar.

Grind

Grind\, n. 1. The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.

2. Any severe continuous work or occupation; esp., hard and uninteresting study. [Colloq.] --T. Hughes.

3. A hard student; a dig. [College Slang]
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : grind
Spanish: moler, triturar, picar,
German: mahlen,
Japanese: 粉にひく
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grind

vt.
1. [MIT and Berkeley; now rare] 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. [common] To run seemingly interminably, esp. (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 4.2.0
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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, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: grind
Pronunciation: 'grInd
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form: ground /'graund/; grind·ing
1 : to reduce to powder or small fragments by friction (as with the teeth)
2 : to press together and move with a rotating or back-and-forth motion —see BRUXISM
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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GRIND
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].
[The Jargon File]
(1995-01-31)

grind
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!"
[The Jargon File]
(1994-12-16)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Grind

(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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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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