Grind

9 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Grind \Grind\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ground}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Grinding}.] [AS. grindan; perh. akin to L. frendere to
     gnash, grind. Cf. {Grist}.]
     1. 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.


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              Take the millstones, and grind meal.  --Is. xivii.
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     2. 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.
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     3. To oppress by severe exactions; to harass.
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              To grind the subject or defraud the prince.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     4. To study hard for examination; -- commonly used with away;
        as, to grind away at one's studies. [College Slang]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Grind \Grind\, v. i.
     1. To perform the operation of grinding something; to turn
        the millstones.
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              Send thee
              Into the common prison, there to grind. --Milton.
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     2. To become ground or pulverized by friction; as, this corn
        grinds well.
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     3. To become polished or sharpened by friction; as, glass
        grinds smooth; steel grinds to a sharp edge.
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     4. To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
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     5. To perform hard and distasteful service; to drudge; to
        study hard, as for an examination. --Farrar.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Grind \Grind\, n.
     1. The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by
        friction.
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     2. Any severe continuous work or occupation; esp., hard and
        uninteresting study. [Colloq.] --T. Hughes.
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     3. A student that studies hard; a dig; a wonk. [College
        Slang]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  grind
       n 1: an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected
            or studying excessively [syn: {swot}, {nerd}, {wonk}, {dweeb}]
       2: hard monotonous routine work [syn: {drudgery}, {plodding}, {donkeywork}]
       3: the act of grinding to a powder or dust [syn: {mill}, {pulverization},
           {pulverisation}]
       v 1: press or grind with a crunching noise [syn: {crunch}, {cranch},
             {craunch}]
       2: make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together; "grate
          one's teeth in anger" [syn: {grate}]
       3: reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading;
          "grind the spices in a mortar"; "mash the garlic" [syn: {mash},
           {crunch}, {bray}, {comminute}]
       4: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework";
          "Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: {labor}, {labour},
           {toil}, {fag}, {travail}, {drudge}, {dig}, {moil}]
       5: 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
       [also: {ground}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  367 Moby Thesaurus words for "grind":
     ablate, abrade, abrase, aculeate, acuminate, afflict, agonize, ail,
     application, atomize, badger, barb, bark, beast of burden, beat,
     beat down, beaten path, belch, bibliolater, bibliolatrist,
     bibliomane, bibliomaniac, bibliophage, bibliophile, bibliophilist,
     bite, blare, blat, bone, boning, booklover, bookworm, brainwork,
     bray, break, break into pieces, break to pieces, break up,
     brecciate, browbeat, bulldoze, bully, bureaucracy, bureaucratism,
     burn, burr, buzz, cackle, castrate, caw, chafe, champ, chaw, chew,
     chew the cud, chew up, chinoiserie, chirr, chomp, chore, churn out,
     clamp down on, clang, clangor, clank, clash, coerce, comminute,
     compel, con, conning, contemplate, contemplation, contriturate,
     convulse, cow, cram, cramming, crash, craunch, croak, crucify,
     crumb, crumble, crump, crunch, crush, cuspidate, cut,
     cut to pieces, daily grind, daunt, demolish, despotize, diffuse,
     dig, dirty work, disintegrate, disperse, disrupt, distress,
     domineer, domineer over, donkeywork, drill, drudge, drudgery, edge,
     elucubrate, emery, employment, engrossment, enslave, erase, erode,
     examine, excruciate, exercise, exertion, extensive study, fag,
     failing student, fatigue, fester, file, fission, flour, fragment,
     fray, frazzle, fret, gall, galley slave, generate, give pain,
     gnash, gnaw, gnaw away, go over, grain, granulate, granulize,
     grate, graze, greasy grind, grind down, grind to powder, grinding,
     gripe, grit, groan, groove, growl, grub, grumble, gum, hack,
     hammer, hammer away, handiwork, handwork, harass, harrow, harry,
     headwork, hector, henpeck, hone, hound, hurt, ill-treat, industry,
     inflame, inflict pain, inspection, intimidate, irritate, jangle,
     jar, jog trot, keep down, keep under, kill by inches, labor,
     lacerate, levigate, lick, lick of work, lord it over, lucubrate,
     lucubration, make mincemeat of, maltreat, manual labor, martyr,
     martyrize, mash, masticate, mental labor, mill, mince, moil, mouth,
     muck, mugger, mumble, munch, nibble, nip, oilstone, oppress,
     overachiever, overawe, overbear, overmaster, override, pace, pain,
     peg, peg away, persecute, perusal, peruse, pestle, philobiblist,
     pierce, pinch, plague, plod, plodder, plug, plug along, plug away,
     plugging, plunge into, point, polish, pore over, pound, pound away,
     powder, practice, press heavy on, prick, produce,
     prolong the agony, pulverize, pumice, put to torture, rack, rankle,
     rasp, rat race, raze, read, reading, red tape, red-tapeism,
     reduce to powder, regard studiously, repress, reset, restudy,
     restudying, review, ride over, ride roughshod over, rote, round,
     routine, rub, rub away, rub off, rub out, ruminate, run, rut, sand,
     sandblast, sandpaper, scatter, scour, scranch, scrape, scratch,
     scrub, scrunch, scuff, scut work, set, shard, sharpen, shatter,
     shiver, shred, skin, slave, slavery, slog, slogger, smash,
     smash up, smooth, snarl, snore, spadework, spiculate, splinter,
     spur, squash, squirrel cage, squish, stab, sting, strap, stroke,
     stroke of work, strop, study, studying, subdue, subject, subjugate,
     suppress, sweat, swot, swotter, swotting, taper, task, terrorize,
     tiresome work, toil, torment, torture, track, trample down,
     trample upon, travail, tread down, tread upon, treadmill,
     triturate, turn out, twang, tweak, twist, tyrannize,
     tyrannize over, underachiever, unman, vet, wade through,
     walk all over, walk over, wear, wear away, wear down,
     weigh heavy on, well-worn groove, whet, wide reading, work,
     work away, workhorse, wound, wring
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  grind vt. 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 {{nroff}}, {{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!"
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  GRIND
       
          GRaphical INterpretive Display.
       
          A graphics input language for the {PDP-9}.
       
          ["GRIND: A Language and Translator for Computer Graphics",
          A.P. Conn, Dartmouth, June 1969].
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (1995-01-31)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  grind
       
          1. (MIT and Berkeley) 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 {nroff}, {troff}, {TeX}, or Scribe source.
       
          3. To run seemingly interminably, especially (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!"
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (1994-12-16)
       
       

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Grind
     (Ex. 32:20; Deut. 9:21; Judg. 16:21), to crush small (Heb.
     tahan); to oppress the poor (Isa. 3:5). The hand-mill was early
     used by the Hebrews (Num. 11:8). It consisted of two stones, the
     upper (Deut. 24:6; 2 Sam. 11:21) being movable and slightly
     concave, the lower being stationary. The grinders mentioned
     Eccl. 12:3 are the teeth. (See {MILL}.)