About The Word Grit
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Grit
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What's The Definition Of Grit?
[n] (informal) fortitude and determination; "he didn't have the guts to try it"
[n] a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone [v] clench together; "grit one's teeth" [v] cover with a grit; "grit roads" Synonyms | Synonyms for Grit: backbone | gritrock | gritstone | gumption | guts | moxie | sand Related Terms | Find terms related to Grit: air pollution | attritus | backbone | bottle | bottom | bran | bravery | breccia | chafe | chutzpah | cosmic dust | courage | courageousness | crumb | crumble | dauntlessness | debris | determination | detritus | doughtiness | dust | dust ball | efflorescence | exacerbate | fallout | farina | fearlessness | filings | firmness | flour | fortitude | fret | gall | gameness | grain | granule | granulet | grate | grate on | gravel | grits | groats | guts | gutsiness | guttiness | hardihood | hardiness | heart | heart of oak | intestinal fortitude | intrepidity | intrepidness | irritate | kittens | lint | meal | mettle | mettlesomeness | moxie | nerve | pith | pluck | pluckiness | powder | provoke | pussies | rasp | raspings | resoluteness | resolution | resolve | sand | sawdust | set on edge | shingle | smut | soot | spirit | spunk | spunkiness | stalwartness | stamina | starch | staunchness | stout heart | tenacity | toughness | true grit | valor See Also | clench | coat | fortitude | sandstone | surface Grit In Webster's Dictionary \Grit\, n. [OE, greet, greot, sand, gravel, AS. gre['o]t
grit, sant, dust; akin to OS griott, OFries. gret gravel,
OHG. grioz, G. griess, Icel. grj[=o]t, and to E. groats,
grout. See {Groats}, {Grout}, and cf. {Grail} gravel.]
1. Sand or gravel; rough, hard particles.
2. The coarse part of meal.
3. pl. Grain, esp. oats or wheat, hulled and coarsely ground;
in high milling, fragments of cracked wheat smaller than
groats.
4. (Geol.) A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; as,
millstone grit; -- called also {gritrock} and {gritstone.}
The name is also applied to a finer sharp-grained
sandstone; as, grindstone grit.
5. Structure, as adapted to grind or sharpen; as, a hone of
good grit.
6. Firmness of mind; invincible spirit; unyielding courage;
fortitude. --C. Reade. E. P. Whipple.
\Grit\ (gr[i^]t), v. i. To give forth a grating sound, as sand under the feet; to grate; to grind. The sanded floor that grits beneath the tread. --Goldsmith. \Grit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gritted}; p. pr. &, vb. n. {Gritting}.] To grind; to rub harshly together; to grate; as, to grit the teeth. [Collog.] |
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