grit

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
2. A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
3. Small, hard, inedible particles in food.
4. A measure of the relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper, the smaller the number the coarser the abrasive.
5. A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit.
6. Strength of mind; great 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. (obsolete) To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.

Concepts

sable

cran

gravier

courage

gravillon

tripes

grincer

nerf

poussière

sabler

granulat

sables

du nerf

sable gros

sableuxse

arène

matières retenues par le dessableur

culot

énergie

entrailles

épine dorsale

estomac

Synonymes

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

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streptococcus

valor

valour

cranch

craunch

fine gravel

grain size

crack

grinding powder

mesh size

small particles

sandgravel

hard sludge

grain fineness

abradant

fineness number

arena

bite

coarseness

crush

debris

dust

earth

elation

face

gobble

grading

grail

graininess

grain of sand

granularity

grate

grille

gruel

gut

gutsiness

heart

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Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ɡɹɪt/

Étymologie (Anglais)

With early modern vowel shortening, from Middle English grete, griet, from Old English grēot, from Proto-West Germanic *greut, from Proto-Germanic *greutą.