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Definition of 'Grind'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) grind
to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet:
to grind a lens.

2.  grind
to reduce to fine particles, as by pounding or crushing; pulverize.

3.  grind
to oppress, torment, or crush:
ground by poverty.

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

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

6.  grind
to produce by crushing or abrasion:
to grind flour.

7. (v.i.) grind
to reduce something to fine particles.

8.  grind
to rub harshly; grate.

9.  grind
to be or become ground.

10.  grind
to be polished or sharpened by friction.

11.  grind
Informal. to work or study laboriously (often fol. by away).

12.  grind
(in a dance) to rotate the hips in a suggestive manner.

13.  grind
grind out,

14.  grind
to produce in a routine or mechanical way.

15.  grind
to extinguish (a cigarette) against a surface.

16. (n.) grind
the act of grinding.

17.  grind
a grinding sound.

18.  grind
a grade of particle fineness into which a substance is ground:
coffee available in various grinds.

19.  grind
laborious, usu. uninteresting work.

20.  grind
an excessively diligent student.

21.  grind
a dance movement in which the hips are rotated in a suggestive manner.

Etymology: (bef. 950; OE grindan; akin to Go grinda- ground up, L frendere to grind)

Definition of 'Grind'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) swot, grind, nerd, wonk, dweeb
an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious

2. (noun) grind
the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground
"a coarse grind of coffee"

3. (noun) drudgery, plodding, grind, donkeywork
hard monotonous routine work

4. (verb) grind, mill, pulverization, pulverisation
the act of grinding to a powder or dust

5. (verb) crunch, cranch, craunch, grind
press or grind with a crushing noise

6. (verb) grate, grind
make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
"grate one's teeth in anger"

7. (verb) labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
work hard
"She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"

8. (verb) grind
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

9. (verb) grind, mash, crunch, bray, comminute
reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
"grind the spices in a mortar"; "mash the garlic"

10. (verb) grind
created by grinding
"grind designs into the glass bowl"

11. (verb) grind
shape or form by grinding
"grind lenses for glasses and cameras"

Definition of 'Grind'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) grind
to crush sth between two surfaces until it becomes powder
They grind the wheat to make flour.

2. grind
(of a knife) to sharpen by rubbing on a stone
to grind the blade

3. grind
grind to a halt
to suddenly stop
The project ground to a halt.

Definition of 'Grind'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Grind
the act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction

2. (noun) Grind
any severe continuous work or occupation; esp., hard and uninteresting study

3. (noun) Grind
a hard student; a dig

4. (verb) Grind
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

5. (verb) Grind
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

6. (verb) Grind
to oppress by severe exactions; to harass

7. (verb) Grind
to study hard for examination

8. (verb) Grind
to perform the operation of grinding something; to turn the millstones

9. (verb) Grind
to become ground or pulverized by friction; as, this corn grinds well

10. (verb) Grind
to become polished or sharpened by friction; as, glass grinds smooth; steel grinds to a sharp edge

11. (verb) Grind
to move with much difficulty or friction; to grate

12. (verb) Grind
to perform hard aud distasteful service; to drudge; to study hard, as for an examination

Definitions of 'Grind'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. Grind
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 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!”

Translation of 'Grind'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to crush into powder or small pieces This machine grinds coffee.
Afrikaans: maal, fynmaak	Arabic: يَطْحَن	Bulgarian: меля
Brazilian: moer	Czech: mlít	German: mahlen
Danish: male; pulverisere	Greek: αλέθω	Spanish: moler, triturar, picar
Estonian: jahvatama	Farsi: آسیاب کردن	Finnish: jauhaa
French: moudre, broyer	Hebrew: לִטחוֹן	Hindi: पीसना
Croatian: mljeti, samljeti	Hungarian: őröl	Indonesian: menggiling
Icelandic: mala	Italian: macinare	Japanese: 粉にひく
Korean: 갈아 가루로 만들다	Lithuanian: malti, grūsti	Latvian: []malt; []berzt (pulverī)
Malay: mengisar	Dutch: (ver)malen	Norwegian: (fin)male, knuse, kverne
Polish: mleć, ucierać	Persian: آسیاب کردن	Pashto: اوړه كول، ميدول، وړول، او
Portuguese: moer	Romanian: a măcina, a râşni	Russian: молоть
Slovak: mlieť	Slovenian: mleti	Serbian: mleti
Swedish: mala	Thai: บด	Turkish: öğütmek
Taiwanese: 磨碎	Ukrainian: молоти	Urdu: پیسنا
Vietnamese: nghiền	Chinese: 磨碎
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