grit
/ˈɡɹɪt/
Misollar
- Grit your teeth and bear it!
- The council refuses to grit my road.
- Ziri could only grit his teeth in anger.
- They grit this road when it's icy.
- Grit your teeth and keep working on the wretched painting.
- Tom regularly feeds his chooks grit to enhance egg production.
ot noun
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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.
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Inedible particles in food.
These cookies seem to have grit from nutshells in them.
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A measure of the relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper, the smaller the number the coarser the abrasive.
I need a sheet of 100 grit sandpaper.
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Strength of mind; great courage or fearlessness; fortitude.
That kid with the cast on his arm has the grit to play dodgeball.
fe’l verb
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Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger.
He has a sleeping disorder and grits his teeth.
- To cover with grit.
- To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.
Manbalar: Wiktionary (Free Dictionary API orqali), Datamuse, Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), MyMemory.