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grinder
noun
1 grinder
A large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States.
synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep ... show more.
Roget 540:
teacher,
trainer,
instructor,
institutor,
master,
tutor,
director,
Corypheus,
dry nurse,
coach,
grinder,
crammer,
don;
governor,
bear leader;
governess,
duenna [Sp.];
disciplinarian.
professor,
lecturer,
reader,
prelector†,
prolocutor,
preacher;
chalk talker,
khoja†;
pastor
etc.
(clergy)
996;
schoolmaster,
dominie [Fr.],
usher,
pedagogue,
abecedarian;
schoolmistress,
dame,
monitor,
pupil teacher.
expositor
etc.
524;
preceptor,
guide;
guru;
mentor
etc.
(adviser)
695;
pioneer,
apostle,
missionary,
propagandist,
munshi†,
example
etc.
(model for imitation)
22.
professorship
etc.
(school)
542.
tutelage
etc.
(teaching)
537.
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Dutch: Zep, hoofdrolspeler
2 grinder
Grinding tooth with a broad crown; located behind the premolars.
synonym: molar.
Dutch: kies
Polish: trzonowiec, ząb trzonowy
3 grinder
Machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing.
synonyms: mill, milling machinery.
Roget 330:
powderiness†
[State of powder.],
pulverulence†;
sandiness
etc.
adj.;
efflorescence;
friability.
powder,
dust,
sand,
shingle;
sawdust;
grit;
meal,
bran,
flour,
farina,
rice,
paddy,
spore,
sporule†;
crumb,
seed,
grain;
particle
etc.
(smallness)
32;
limature†,
filings,
debris,
detritus,
tailings,
talus slope,
scobs†,
magistery†,
fine powder;
flocculi [Lat.].
smoke;
cloud of dust,
cloud of sand,
cloud of smoke;
puff of smoke,
volume of smoke;
sand storm,
dust storm.
[Reduction to powder]
pulverization,
comminution†,
attenuation,
granulation,
disintegration,
subaction†,
contusion,
trituration [Chem],
levigation†,
abrasion,
detrition,
multure†;
limitation;
tripsis†;
filing
etc.
v..
[Instruments for pulverization]
mill,
arrastra†,
gristmill,
grater,
rasp,
file,
mortar and pestle,
nutmeg grater,
teeth,
grinder,
grindstone,
kern†,
quern†,
koniology†.
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Dutch: molen, molentje
4 grinder
A machine tool that polishes metal.
Dutch: slijpapparaat, slijper
Polish: szlifierka
Moby thesaurus: BLT, Dagwood sandwich, Sloppy Joe, Swiss cheese sandwich, baby tooth, bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich, bicuspid, bucktooth, canape, canine, cheese grater, cheeseburger, comminutor, corned beef sandwich, crown, crusher, cuspid, cutter, deciduous tooth, dent, denticle, denticulation, dentil, dentition, dogtooth, double-decker sandwich, egg salad sandwich, eyetooth, fang, fore tooth, gagtooth, gang tooth, gold tooth, granulator, grater, grilled cheese sandwich, ham sandwich, hamburger, hoagy, hot dog, incisor, kominuter, levigator, masher, milk tooth, mill, millstone, molar, mortar and pestle, nutmeg grater, pastrami sandwich, peg, permanent tooth, pestle, pivot tooth, poor boy, premolar, pulverizer, quern, quernstone, rock crusher, roller, sandwich, scrivello, shredder, snag, snaggletooth, steamroller, submarine sandwich, tooth, triturator, tuna salad sandwich, tunaburger, tush, tusk, wisdom tooth ... show more.
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