grit
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(uncountable)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.
(uncountable)Small, hard, inedible particles in food.
These cookies seem to have grit from nutshells in them.
- 3.
(uncountable)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.
- 4.
(uncountable)(geology) A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit.
- 5.
(idiomatic, uncountable)Strength of mind; courage or fearlessness; fortitude.
That kid with the cast on his arm has the grit to play dodgeball.
- 6.
(plural normally)(usually in the plural) Husked but unground oats.
- 7.
(plural normally)(usually in the plural) Coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge.
grits and eggs
ham and grits
Động từ
verb- 1.
(ergative, transitive)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.
To cover with grit.
- 3.
(intransitive, obsolete)To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.
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ine-pro With early modern vowel shortening, from Middle English grete, griet, from Old English grēot, from *greut, from Proto-Germanic *greutą. Compare grist.