What's the difference between grind and kibble?

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.

Kibble


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To bruise; to grind coarsely; as, kibbled oats.
  • (n.) A large iron bucket used in Cornwall and Wales for raising ore out of mines.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Gavin Kibble, the project manager at Coventry foodbank, which fed 7,500 people in 2010-11, its first year of operation, described the foodbank as a "barometer of the state of the nation".
  • (2) To tackle this at the charity, Kibble said it looked at what others, like New Philanthropy Capital were doing to measure impact and then tweaked the methods so they suited its own work.
  • (3) The activities of three urea cycle enzymes, several nitrogen catabolic, gluconeogenic, and lipogenic enzymes were measured in the liver of adult cats fed: a commercial kibble; a 17.5 or 70% protein purified diet, or starved for 5 days.
  • (4) An investigation revealed the owner had been feeding the dogs cottonseed meal daily with their kibbled meal.
  • (5) The cat doesn't give a crap if you've come from LA and trained Will Smith's cats and have a pocket full of Kibbles: it will keep on dragging maggoty voles under your bed and sitting staring at you through a window mouthing "mow?
  • (6) Third to publish was a group of three theorists, including two US researchers, Dick Hagen and Gerry Guralnik, and a British physicist, Tom Kibble.
  • (7) Two US physicists, Gerry Guralnik and Dick Hagen, had worked with Tom Kibble at Imperial College, London, but delayed their paper to ensure it was complete.
  • (8) Kevin Kibble, chief executive of the Caspari Foundation , agrees that impact measurement is now essential from a fundraising point of view.
  • (9) Tom Kibble at Imperial College, said he was happy to see the Swedish academy recognise the work and offered congratulations to Higgs and Englert.
  • (10) The others are Francois Englert from Belgium, Tom Kibble from the UK, and Dick Hagen and Gerry Guralnik in the US.