grit

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking. uncountable
    — The flower beds were white with grit from sand blasting the flagstone walkways.
  2. Husked but unground oats. plural-normally
  3. A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.; Sand or a sand–salt mixture spread on wet and, especially, icy roads and footpaths to improve traction. uncountable
  4. Coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge. plural-normally
    — grits and eggs
  5. Small, hard, inedible particles in food. uncountable
    — These cookies seem to have grit from nutshells in them.
  6. 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. uncountable
    — I need a sheet of 100 grit sandpaper.
  7. A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit. uncountable
  8. Strength of mind; courage or fearlessness; fortitude. idiomatic,uncountable
    — That kid with the cast on his arm has the grit to play dodgeball.
动词 v.
  1. To clench (one's teeth), particularly in reaction to pain or anger. ergative,transitive
    — We had no choice but to grit our teeth and get on with it.
  2. To cover with grit.
  3. To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind. intransitive,obsolete
    — The sanded floor that grits beneath the tread

词形变化

grits present,singular,third-person gritting participle,present gritted participle,past gritted past grit nonstandard,participle,past grit nonstandard,past grits plural

词汇关系

衍生词
grit cell gritless gritrock gritsome gritten gritter grittish gritty millstone grit peagrit road grit true grit Yorkshire grit grit one's teeth
相关词
grind grindstone sand sandy sandblasting debris mortar and pestle swarf groat grout gruel

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
From Middle English *gryt (“bran, chaff”), from Old English grytt, from Proto-West Germanic *gruti (“coarsely ground bits”), ablaut variant of Proto-Indo-European *gʰrewd-. See above. Doublet of goetta.
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