(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.
Sandpaper
Definition:
(n.) Paper covered on one side with sand glued fast, -- used for smoothing and polishing.
(v. t.) To smooth or polish with sandpaper; as, to sandpaper a door.
Example Sentences:
(1) A model of an irregular anterior corneal surface was developed in deepithelialized calf eyes using grade 8-0 sandpaper.
(2) The sapphire home button of the iPhone 5S resisted all scratches from both sandpapers.
(3) The searing aftermath, as your throat rages as though sandpapered and your anus screams like a scalded button.
(4) A softer garnet sandpaper, which is about six on the Mohs scale, and emery, which is about eight on the Mohs scale, were used on the two screens.
(5) The remaining scapha is straightened and the superior crus and antihelical fold are formed by scratching and sandpaper abrasion of the lateral surface.
(6) Two years ago Steve Jobs, then Apple chief executive, dismissed the idea of a 7in tablet "unless your tablet also includes sandpaper, so that the user can sand down their fingers to around one-quarter of the present size" to use the smaller touchscreen.
(7) In Experiment 1, rats were trained on a discrimination between rubber- and sandpaper-covered arms of a maze after one group had been pre-exposed to these intra-maze cues.
(8) Stress in the longitudinal direction was radiographically calculated in the cast specimens (6 mm X 18 mm) after casting, sandpaper polishing, oxidation, and each firing process.
(9) Sections of 15 microns are obtained by cutting the trimmed and sandpapered polyester blocks with an LKB multirange microtome.
(10) Sections 10 microns thick are obtained by cutting the trimmed and sandpapered acrylic blocks on an LKB multirange microtome.
(11) Sandpaper wrapped around a motor-driven cylinder is effective in broad, flat areas but is difficult to use around the eyes and nose.
(12) Up to 12 different conditions defined by different combinations of object weights (15, 65, and 115 g) and four surface textures (oiled metal, smooth metal, fine and coarse sandpaper) were used.
(13) "; "Very, very good, thank you" – Johnson went downhill at an alarming pace until by the interview's close, admitting he had "sandpapered" quotes as a Times journalist, failing to deny he lied to the party leader at the time, Michael Howard, about an extramarital affair and conceding that he had humoured an old friend when he asked for a phone number in the knowledge that the friend intended to beat up the owner of it.
(14) The new video shows Marques Brownlee scratch both an iPhone 5S screen – which uses the third generation of Gorilla Glass – and the alleged iPhone 6 4.7in screen with two different types of sandpaper.
(15) The output of Third Man Records is wilfully unconventional: White recently produced a new album with Neil Young – A Letter Home , acoustic versions of Young's favourite songs – but they recorded it in a 1947 Voice-o-Graph booth that imbues the tracks with a sandpaper crackle.
(16) Cameron is a smooth old Etonian; Thatcher was a grammar school girl made from sandpaper.
(17) If conditions permitted, the cell discharge was also recorded during lifting of objects of various weights (15, 65, or 115 g) or different surface textures (sandpaper or polished metal), and when possible the cutaneous or proprioceptive fields of the neurons were characterized with the use of natural stimulation.
(18) And the hypothetical 7-inch iPad would easily fit in a 5.5" -wide jacket pocket: Lastly, there's another reason for Apple to forget the sandpaper and, instead, throw sand into Amazon's and Google's (purported) 7" tablet gears.
(19) Down the crackly phone line, it sounds like sandpaper being scraped against a pebbledash wall.
(20) In the first experiment, dentin specimens were divided into following three groups: dentin surface polished with carborundum-point, carborundum-point and #150 sandpaper and carborundum-point, #150 sandpaper and #240 sandpaper.