(n.) The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil.
Example Sentences:
(1) He loved the excitement and the glitter of his post, but could never really accept the hours of drudgery and tedium that the job of Liberal leader involved.
(2) The circumstances, a malaise of drudgery and petty distraction in the society around him, are described, and his general wish "to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived".
(3) A data acquisition system that automatically discards corrupted or undesirable signals would save untold hours of drudgery for researchers.
(4) In the Pentagon worldview, however, there is simply no drug use, nor any factory-style drudgery, and no one in the US Air Force is, was or ever shall be light enough in the loafers to invoke The Wizard Of Oz poetically.
(5) It would be unfortunate if urodynamicists were required to learn of the phenomena and their implications by the drudgery of repeated measurements rather than taking guidance from previous work.
(6) But in 1963, when Gloria Steinem went undercover in the New York club for Show magazine, she described a life of swollen feet, drudgery, "demerits" for laddered tights or scruffy tails, and a constant low-level thrum of sexual harassment.
(7) Hundreds of passionate feminists, female and male, are walking to rally against the daily violence, discrimination and drudgery women across the world continue to face.
(8) Instead of dwelling on the drudgery, I concentrated on that day’s assignment.
(9) Fluoxetine is a significant step in that direction, he argued, and we would inevitably possess drugs that "reduce the common experiences of drudgery such as going to work on Monday mornings for those who, at present, are not seen as suffering from a mood disorder, without obvious side effects or 'impairment' in judgment."
(10) At their best, soaps find drama in the everyday and the mark of Wainwright’s work is that, however dramatic, there is a respect for the drudgery and humdrum nature of much of life.
(11) A collision of technologies, indoor plumbing, electricity and the affordable automatic washing machine have all but put paid to large laundries and the drudgery of hand-washing,” says the report.
(12) It is intuitively obvious that the longer you are expected to drudge, the less productive your drudgery is likely to be.
(13) The more hours of drudgery you endure the more of a mother you are and, therefore, the more important your job is.
(14) Leaving for another day the question of admiration, since only a barrister can really know how much pain is incurred when legal drudgery is sacrificed for the cut and thrust of baby pilates, it was Mr Clegg's shared belief, with Laura Perrins, that "choice" is involved in the average working parents' lives that was most unworthy.
(15) If he became an MP and Cameron won a second term, Johnson would have to accept some form of ministerial drudgery which might take the shine of his star quality.
(16) Otherwise it is just thankless drudgery – no less demoralising and demotivating than long-term unemployment.
(17) It is argued that the HGP is a new form of coordinated, interdisciplinary science; that its primary objective must be seen as the creation of a tool for biomedical research--a source book that will be the basis of study of variation and function for a long time; that the impact on scientist training will be salutary by relieving graduate students of useless drudgery and by training scientists competent in both molecular genetics and computational science; and that the funding of the HGP will have an insignificant negative effect on science funding generally, and indeed may have a beneficial effect through economy of scale and a focusing of attention on the excitement of biology and medical science.
(18) They say that the drudgery of life beats the anonymity of death.
(19) SCORE, a program for computer-assisted scoring of Southern blots of clone DNA, retains the use of expert human judgment while taking over much of the drudgery of the scoring task.
(20) I don't seek inspiration, and my work is also not a horrible drudgery.
Grind
Definition:
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To oppress by severe exactions; to harass.
(v. t.) To study hard for examination.
(v. i.) To perform the operation of grinding something; to turn the millstones.
(v. i.) To become ground or pulverized by friction; as, this corn grinds well.
(v. i.) To become polished or sharpened by friction; as, glass grinds smooth; steel grinds to a sharp edge.
(v. i.) To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
(v. i.) To perform hard aud distasteful service; to drudge; to study hard, as for an examination.
(n.) The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
(n.) Any severe continuous work or occupation; esp., hard and uninteresting study.
(n.) A hard student; a dig.
Example Sentences:
(1) The contents of hexavalent chromium, Cr(VI), in grinding dust were undetectable.
(2) In EastEnders , the mystery surrounding the identity of Kat's secret squeeze continues amid the grinding of narrative levers and the death rattle of overflogged script-horses.
(3) We suggest that other functions than grinding, such as supplying minerals, may be equally important functions of the grit.
(4) While exposure of root surface dentin alone (negative control) produced no alterations, grinding the surface (positive control) caused noticeable changes in dentin, odontoblasts, and pulp.
(5) But he denied having an axe to grind against Riordan, now a Fair Work Commissioner.
(6) Nancy Curtin, the chief investment officer of Close Brothers Asset Management said: "The US economy didn't just grind to a halt in the first quarter – it hit reverse as the polar vortex took its toll.
(7) On the other hand, grinding the glossy ridge-lap surface, painting the teeth with monomer or a solvent, preparing retention grooves on the ridge-lap portion of the teeth effectively lock the teeth to the denture base.
(8) Sporulating cells of Bacillus sphaericus 9602 containing fully engulfed forespores at different stages of maturity were broken by ultrasonic disruption, followed by grinding with alumina.
(9) Achieving efficiency on this scale will be complicated and a long, hard grind.
(10) Lord Mitchell, who helped to lead Movement for Change's rally of activists this summer and who tabled yesterday's amendment, has said that the change will help "those who live in the hell-hole of grinding debt.
(11) In Java 81.1% of the males and 99.2% of the females showed dental mutilations in the form of grinding the incisal and vestibular surfaces of the maxillary incisors and canines.
(12) The experimental carborundum wheels exhibited much the same performance as the marketed carborundum wheel under a less grinding pressure that 100 gf.
(13) The anterior teeth can often be coupled to the posterior controls by modifying contours with selective grinding, full or partial coverage restorations, or composite.
(14) The combination of various possibilities for sample preparation and investigation--the tinting penetration method, the ion beam slope cutting, the light and scanning electron microscopy--allow statements at the grind after different drying of the preparation mainly to the bond but also surface and filler shape of glass-ionomer cements.
(15) Printers have come a long way since 1984 when Hewlett Packard introduced the ThinkJet , the firm's first personal inkjet printer grinding at a snail's pace of two pages a minute and priced at a whopping $495.
(16) Pyralgin (metamizole sodium) usefulness was tested in premedication of 90 patients subjected to processing of hard tooth tissues by grinding or drilling.
(17) Mercury vapor levels associated with grinding amalgam models and mulling amalgams in the palm of the hand following trituration have been measured in a dental laboratory in inhalation position.
(18) Gap changes which resulted during porcelain firing cycles were relatively small, but larger marginal discrepancies developed in crowns prepared with a compatible porcelain during grinding and abrasive blasting procedures.
(19) Cases were no more likely than well controls to report ever-grinding, but were actually significantly less likely than well controls to report current grinding.
(20) After functional analysis and diagnostic grinding-in in the Dentatus articulator, the teeth of 10 patients were ground in directly in the mouth using a list of corrections.