grind Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
    wonk; dweeb; nerd; swot.
  2. noun the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground
    • a coarse grind of coffee
  3. noun hard monotonous routine work
    donkeywork; drudgery; plodding.
  4. noun the act of grinding to a powder or dust
    mill; pulverization; pulverisation.
  5. verb press or grind with a crushing noise
    crunch; cranch; craunch.
  6. verb make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
    grate.
    • grate one's teeth in anger
  7. verb work hard
    moil; travail; dig; labour; drudge; toil; labor; fag.
    • She was digging away at her math homework
    • Lexicographers drudge all day long
  8. verb 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
  9. verb reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
    crunch; bray; mash; comminute.
    • grind the spices in a mortar
    • mash the garlic
  10. verb created by grinding
    • grind designs into the glass bowl
  11. verb shape or form by grinding
    • grind lenses for glasses and cameras

WordNet

Grind transitive verb
Etymology
AS. grindan; perh. akin to L. frendere to gnash, grind. Cf. Grist.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Ground ; present participle & verbal noun Grinding
Definitions
  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.
    Take the millstones, and grind meal. Is. xivii. 2.
  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.
  3. To oppress by severe exactions; to harass.
    To grind the subject or defraud the prince. Dryden.
  4. To study hard for examination. College Slang
Grind intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To perform the operation of grinding something; to turn the millstones.
    Send thee Into the common prison, there to grind. Milton.
  2. To become ground or pulverized by friction; as, this corn grinds well.
  3. To become polished or sharpened by friction; as, glass grinds smooth; steel grinds to a sharp edge.
  4. To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
  5. To perform hard aud distasteful service; to drudge; to study hard, as for an examination. Farrar.
Grind noun
Definitions
  1. The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
  2. Any severe continuous work or occupation; esp., hard and uninteresting study. Colloq. T. Hughes.
  3. A hard student; a dig. College Slang

Webster 1913