grit

(Anglès)

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.
2. (uncountable) A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
3. (uncountable) Small, hard, inedible particles in food.
4. (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.
5. (uncountable) A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit.
6. (idiomatic, uncountable) Strength of mind; courage or fearlessness; fortitude.

Verb

1. Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger.
2. To cover with grit.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ɡɹɪt/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: grete

Heretat de anglès antic: greot

Heretat de anglès mitjà: *gryt

Heretat de anglès antic: grytt

In summary

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.

Conceptes

grava

ous

pòlvores gruixudes

sorra

sorra grossa

arena

collons

pebrots

sauló

Sinònims

gravel

sand

pebble

courage

pluck

guts

bravery

rubble

gritstone

nerve

backbone

crunch

grind

coarse sand

gritrock

spirit

moxie

willpower

gnash

creak

gumption

aggregate

lattice

mettle

mettled

particle size

perseverance

porridge

scratch

slack

soul

spunk

stamina

stone

🪨

streptococcus

valor

valour

cranch

craunch

fine gravel

grain size

crack

grinding powder

mesh size

small particles

sandgravel

hard sludge

grain fineness

abradant

fineness number