grind
noun
1 grind
An insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious.
synonyms: dweeb, nerd, swot, wonk.
Dutch: nerd
2 grind
The grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground.
3 grind
Hard monotonous routine work.
synonyms: donkeywork, drudgery, plodding.
Dutch: koeliewerk, monnikenwerk, slavenarbeid
Polish: harówka, orka, krwawica, katorga
4 grind
verb
1 grind
Press or grind with a crushing noise.
synonyms: cranch, craunch, crunch.
Roget 331:
rub,
scratch,
scrape,
scrub,
slide,
fray,
rasp,
graze,
curry,
scour,
polish,
rub out,
wear down,
gnaw;
file,
grind
etc.
(reduce to powder)
330.
set one's teeth on edge;
rosin.
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Roget 539:
learn;
acquire knowledge,
gain knowledge,
receive knowledge,
take in knowledge,
drink in knowledge,
imbibe knowledge,
pick up knowledge,
gather knowledge,
get knowledge,
obtain knowledge,
collect knowledge,
glean knowledge,
glean information,
glean learning.
acquaint oneself with,
master;
make oneself master of,
make oneself acquainted with;
grind,
cram;
get up,
coach up;
learn by heart,
learn by rote.
read,
spell,
peruse;
con over,
pore over,
thumb over;
wade through;
dip into;
run the eye over,
run the eye through;
turn over the leaves.
study;
be studious
etc.
adj..
[study intensely]
burn the midnight oil,
consume the midnight oil,
mind one's book;
cram.
go to school,
go to college,
go to the university;
matriculate;
serve an apprenticeship,
serve one's apprenticeship,
serve one's time;
learn one's trade;
be informed
etc.
527;
be taught
etc.
537.
[stop going to school voluntarily (intransitive)]
drop out,
leave school,
quit school;
graduate;
transfer;
take a leave.
[cause to stop going to school (transitive)]
dismiss,
expel,
kick out of school.
[stop going to school involuntarily]
flunk out;
be dismissed
etc.
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Roget 253:
be sharp
etc.
adj.;
taper to a point;
bristle with.
render sharp
etc.
adj.;
sharpen,
point,
aculeate,
whet,
barb,
spiculate†,
set,
strop,
grind;
chip
(flint).
cut
etc.
(sunder)
44.
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Roget 195:
become small,
become smaller;
lessen,
decrease
etc.
36;
grow less,
dwindle,
shrink,
contract,
narrow,
shrivel,
collapse,
wither,
lose flesh,
wizen,
fall away,
waste,
wane,
ebb;
decay
etc.
(deteriorate)
659.
be smaller than,
fall short of;
not come up to
etc.
(be inferior)
34.
render smaller,
lessen,
diminish,
contract,
draw in,
narrow,
coarctate†;
boil down;
constrict,
constringe†;
condense,
compress,
squeeze,
corrugate,
crimp,
crunch,
crush,
crumple up,
warp,
purse up,
pack,
squeeze,
stow;
pinch,
tighten,
strangle;
cramp;
dwarf,
bedwarf†;
shorten
etc.
201;
circumscribe
etc.
229;
restrain
etc.
751.
[reduce in size by abrasion or paring. ]
(subtraction)
38
abrade,
pare,
reduce,
attenuate,
rub down,
scrape,
file,
file down,
grind,
grind down,
chip,
shave,
shear,
wear down.
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Roget 907:
be malevolent
etc.
adj.;
bear spleen,
harbor spleen,
bear a grudge,
harbor a grudge,
bear malice;
betray the cloven foot,
show the cloven foot.
hurt
etc.
(physical pain)
378;
annoy
etc.
830;
injure. ,
harm,
wrong;
do harm to,
do an ill office to;
outrage;
disoblige,
malign,
plant a thorn in the breast.
molest,
worry,
harass,
haunt,
harry,
bait,
tease;
throw stones at;
play the devil with;
hunt down,
dragoon,
hound;
persecute,
oppress,
grind;
maltreat;
illtreat,
ill-use.
wreak one's malice on,
do one's worst,
break a butterfly on the wheel;
dip one's hands in blood,
imbrue one's hands in blood;
have no mercy
etc.
914.1.
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2 grind
Make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together.
synonym: grate.
Dutch: schuren, irriteren, malen
3 grind
Work hard.
synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail.
Dutch: beulen, inspannen, ploegen, ploeteren, sappelen, sloven
4 grind
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.
5 grind
Reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading:
— Grind the spices in a mortar.
synonyms: bray, comminute, crunch, mash.
Roget 330:
come to dust;
be disintegrated,
be reduced to powder
&c..
reduce to powder,
grind to powder;
pulverize,
comminute,
granulate,
triturate,
levigate†;
scrape,
file,
abrade,
rub down,
grind,
grate,
rasp,
pound,
bray,
bruise;
contuse,
contund†;
beat,
crush,
cranch†,
craunch†,
crunch,
scranch†,
crumble,
disintegrate;
attenuate
etc.
195.
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Dutch: verbrijzelen, malen, pureren
6 grind
7 grind
Shape or form by grinding.
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