grit
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: 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.
Inflected forms:
form: grits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gritting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gritted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gritted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: grit
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
participle
past
form: grit
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
past
Senses:
gloss: A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The flower beds were white with grit from sand blasting the flagstone walkways.
gloss: A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Small, hard, inedible particles in food.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: These cookies seem to have grit from nutshells in them.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: I need a sheet of 100 grit sandpaper.
gloss: A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Strength of mind; courage or fearlessness; fortitude.
pos: noun
tags: idiomatic
uncountable
examples: 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.
But what their admirers call grit and critics deem shamelessness can overshadow another essential element of the Clinton school: a willingness to put on the hair shirt of humility to regain power.
gloss: To clench (one's teeth), particularly in reaction to pain or anger.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To cover with grit.
pos: verb
gloss: To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: The sanded floor that grits beneath the tread
Related words: grind
grindstone
sand
sandy
sandblasting
debris
mortar and pestle
swarf
Derived words: grit cell
gritless
gritrock
gritsome
gritten
gritter
grittish
gritty
millstone grit
peagrit
road grit
true grit
Yorkshire grit
grit one's teeth
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: grava
lang: Catalan
word: llimadures
lang: Catalan
word: pòlvores
lang: Czech
word: drť
lang: Czech
word: písek
lang: Czech
word: štěrk
lang: Dutch
word: gruis
lang: Finnish
word: puru
lang: Finnish
word: pöly
lang: Finnish
word: kivipöly
lang: Finnish
word: metallipuru
lang: French
word: gravillon
lang: German
word: Splitt
lang: German
word: Schotter
lang: German
word: Streu
lang: German
word: Grieß
lang: German
word: Streumittel
lang: German
word: Streugut
lang: German
word: Schrot
lang: Hungarian
word: kavics
lang: Hungarian
word: murva
lang: Hungarian
word: homok
lang: Hungarian
word: homokkő
lang: Hungarian
word: kőpor
lang: Hungarian
word: törmelék
lang: Hungarian
word: zúzalék
lang: Italian
word: sabbia
lang: Māori
word: kirikiri
lang: Polish
word: piasek
lang: Polish
word: żwir
lang: Portuguese
word: granalha
lang: Russian
word: песо́к
roman: pesók
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: pijesak
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: pesak
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: zrnca
lang: Spanish
word: arenilla