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grit

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  • //ɡɹɪt//

A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.

Substantiv

  1. 1

    A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.

    The flower beds were white with grit from sand blasting the flagstone walkways.

  2. 2

    A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking. Sand or a sand–salt mixture spread on wet and, especially, icy roads and footpaths to improve traction.

  3. 3

    Small, hard, inedible particles in food.

    These cookies seem to have grit from nutshells in them.

  4. 4

    A measure of the size of abrasive grains, such as those on sandpaper, and thus their relative coarseness or fineness; the smaller the number, the coarser the abrasive: thus, 60 is rough, 600 is fine, and 3000 is ultrafine.

    I need a sheet of 100 grit sandpaper.

  5. 5

    A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit.

  6. 6

    Strength of mind; courage or fearlessness; fortitude.

    That kid with the cast on his arm has the grit to play dodgeball.

    They came to a rising ground , not sharp , but long ; and here youth and grit and sober living told more than ever.

    If you are overcome by a man of grit, he insolently makes you conscious of your own weakness

    Although working under very unpleasant conditions they never grumbled, and to the end showed continuous grit; and in addition to this several examples of sheer heroism were displayed.

Herkunft

With early modern vowel shortening, from Middle English grete, griet, from Old English grēot, from Proto-West Germanic *greut, from Proto-Germanic *greutą. Compare grist.

Verb

  1. 1

    To clench (one's teeth), particularly in reaction to pain or anger.

    We had no choice but to grit our teeth and get on with it.

    He has a sleeping disorder and grits his teeth.

    My teeth gritted as I heard the news.

  2. 2

    To cover with grit.

  3. 3

    veraltetTo give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.

    The sanded floor that grits beneath the tread

Substantiv

  1. 1

    Husked but unground oats.

  2. 2

    Coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge.

    grits and eggs

    ham and grits

Herkunft

From Middle English *gryt (“bran, chaff”), from Old English grytt, from Proto-West Germanic *gruti (“coarsely ground bits”), ablaut variant of Proto-Indo-European *gʰrewd-. See above. Doublet of goetta.

Formen

Plural
grits
Präteritum
gritted
Partizip II
gritted
Partizip I
gritting
3. Person Singular
grits
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