Definition of Grind
1. Noun. An insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious.
Generic synonyms: Assimilator, Learner, Scholar
Derivative terms: Swot
2. Verb. Press or grind with a crushing noise.
3. Noun. The grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground. "A coarse grind of coffee"
4. Verb. Make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together. "Grate one's teeth in anger"
Specialized synonyms: Gnash, Chew, Jaw, Manducate, Masticate
Generic synonyms: Break Up, Fragment, Fragmentise, Fragmentize
Entails: Rub
Derivative terms: Grinding
5. Noun. Hard monotonous routine work.
Generic synonyms: Labor, Labour, Toil
Derivative terms: Drudge
6. Verb. Work hard. "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
Generic synonyms: Do Work, Work
Derivative terms: Drudge, Drudge, Drudgery, Labor, Labor, Laborer, Labour, Labourer, Toil, Toiler, Travail
7. Noun. The act of grinding to a powder or dust.
Generic synonyms: Compaction, Crunch, Crush
Derivative terms: Mill, Pulverise, Pulverize
8. 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. "They Grind "
9. Verb. Reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading. ; "Mash the garlic"
Specialized synonyms: Pulp, Pestle, Mill
Generic synonyms: Break Up, Fragment, Fragmentise, Fragmentize
Derivative terms: Crunch, Grinder, Grinder, Grinding, Grinding, Mash, Mash, Masher
10. Verb. Created by grinding. "Grind designs into the glass bowl"
11. Verb. Shape or form by grinding. "Grind lenses for glasses and cameras"
Definition of Grind
1. 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.
2. v. i. To perform the operation of grinding something; to turn the millstones.
3. n. The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
Definition of Grind
1. to wear, smooth, or sharpen by friction [v GROUND or GRINDED, GRINDING, GRINDS]
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Grind
Literary usage of Grind
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1. A Grammar of the French Tongue: Grounded Upon the Decisions of the French by John Perrin (1832)
"Je moule, that I may grind, tu moules, thou mayest gri. il moule, he may grind.
... Je moul-usse, that I might grind. See page 86. 6. 3. INFINITIVE MOOD. ..."
2. Text-book of Advanced Machine Work: Prepared for Students in Technical by Robert Henry Smith (1919)
"To grind taper collet, A, Fig. 20. Collet blank, machine steel. ... Set automatic
feed to feed at both ends of stroke and to grind to .002" large, ..."
3. Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries by Charles Darwin (1890)
"... masses of greenstone—Immense valleys—Mines •—State of miners—Santiago—Hot-baths
of Cauquenes—Gold-mines—Grind- ing-mills—Perforated stones—Habits of the ..."
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