(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.
Standstill
Definition:
(n.) A standing without moving forward or backward; a stop; a state or rest.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because of these different direct and indirect actions, a sudden cessation of sinus node activity or sudden AV block may result in the diseased heart in a prolonged and even fatal cardiac standstill, especially if the tolerance to ischemia of other organs (notably the brain) is decreased.
(2) Sinus standstill, lasting 30 seconds, was observed in one patient.
(3) The tolerance of ischemia in normal and less perfused myocard during an ischemic and cardioplegic heart standstill was investigated.
(4) Koehler confirmed German media reports that the truck had apparently been slowed by an automatic braking system, bringing it to a standstill after 70 to 80 metres (230-260ft) and preventing worse carnage.
(5) In August, the capital came to a standstill as terrified workers were forced to stay home after gang leaders orchestrated a forced public transport boycott by killing a dozen bus drivers in response to a crackdown by authorities against organised crime.
(6) PGE2 infusion in cases with standstill not responding to oxytocin treatment: In 82 parturients (1.4%) a standstill occurred during labour after initially normal dilation of the cervix, and could not be overcome by administration of oxytocin.
(7) Their mechanism of action can therefore be explained by stating that, due to increased intercellular permeability, the asymmetry of the system is lost and absorption thus comes to a standstill.
(8) Last Monday, INM negotiated a standstill agreement with its bondholders which gave the company another six weeks to repay a €200m debt.
(9) The imaging time per layer was 10 seconds so that rapid imaging could be carried out at respiratory standstill.
(10) Several countries in the Balkans were having problems with democracy and the process of EU enlargement in the area was at a standstill.
(11) We considered that the atrial overload due to combined valvular disease for seventeen years had resulted in total and persistent atrial standstill.
(12) The extent of standstill was assessed by intra-atrial recording and stimulation.
(13) Data from the Thai Demographic and Health Survey, conducted in 1987, confirm evidence from earlier surveys that the decline in the duration of breastfeeding evident during the 1970s came largely to a standstill in the 1980s.
(14) This complex has been found to protect spermatozoa against loss of motility which leads to complete standstill when Tyrode solution alone is used after incubation for six hours under the conditions under which we conducted the experiment.
(15) Vedev said the economy could grind to a standstill or start shrinking in the fourth quarter of this year, potentially moving into the country’s first recession since 2009 early next year.
(16) Onlookers reported seeing the plane flying low before smashing into a field and coming to a standstill with its nose in the River Stour near the village of Throop.
(17) An asymptomatic patient with cardiomegaly caused by isolated right atrial standstill is reported.
(18) Higher doses of these drugs except dipyridamole caused atrial standstill.
(19) Istanbul came to a standstill on Sunday as an army of riot police and gendarmerie cordoned off streets and use teargas on protesters in the centre of the city while the prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, staged a rally before hundreds of thousands of supporters at the waterfront.
(20) Really bad is when there's patients waiting in A&E for a bed but no flow out of A&E and it comes to a standstill.