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"
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 grindexcl. Roughly, “Isn't the machine slow
today!”
Definitions of grind 
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
