(n.) Ground corn; that which is ground at one time; as much grain as is carried to the mill at one time, or the meal it produces.
(n.) Supply; provision.
(n.) In rope making, a given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands.
Example Sentences:
(1) If the policy succeeds then he's a success; if it fails, if schools are shut down for treating girls like second-class citizens , if schools don't open in time for the start of term , if buildings aren't appropriate and kids spend two years without a playground , then this is yet more grist to his failure mill.
(2) Nathanael Johnson, a journalist who has carefully researched GMOs, dug into this issue last year for Grist , so it’s no secret that the 2009 complaint cited by Hansen is out of date.
(3) He was part of a wider media landscape that regarded human nature as base, people as corruptible, public figures as grist to the scandal mill.
(4) You wondered what happened to the passengers.” The Mazraa attack was blamed on Jabhat al-Nusra, the rebel group that has just announced its affiliation to al-Qaida – grist to the mill of the government, which sought from the start to portray the anti-Assad uprising as an exclusively Islamist, extremist and terrorist conspiracy fomented by Arab and western enemies.
(5) For West Ham Matt Jarvis returned on the left of midfield and Joey O’Brien stepped in at right back in a 4-5-1 formation designed with gristly defence in mind at a ground where, despite his reputation for Wenger-baiting, Sam Allardyce has never won a game in 12 attempts.
(6) Gunther agrees this is true ("his statement may be factually defensible") but quotes an article in Grist as providing evidence to the contrary.
(7) His grimace, that it was “all gristly”, is an image I’m finding hard to shake off.
(8) Pressed on the levels of violence at the demonstrations, he replies: "These people are not middle-class female teachers … if they continue to be suppressed it will turn nasty in one way or another … We have put bodies on the street, writing letters to the Times does not work … if we are going to have a mess that is so much grist to the mill."
(9) The tragedy was grist to Health Concern's mill; a deeply emotive case that appeared to encapsulate the human cost of Kidderminster hospital's demise.
(10) Elsewhere, I saw someone crocheting a bra, which should really be new grist to the mill of bra-based feminist disparagement.
(11) • Grist is part of the Guardian Environment Network
(12) Last year's second nuclear test, Pyongyang's aggressive development of ballistic missiles, and its absurdly bellicose tirades, are grist to this well-tried technique of negotiation by force.
(13) Every marathon death or Marr story is grist to the mill of the sedentary and idle.
(14) In a note released today, Greece’s Centre for Planning and Economic research, KEPE, predicted that joblessness would rise from 27.6% at the end of 2013 to 29.3 % next year blaming the “dramatically high levels on the contraction of the country’s productive base.” All of which is grist to the mill for opponents of the gruelling terms of Greece’s rescue program.
(15) There may be no easy solution to this problem, and it will provide the grist for many bioethicists.
(16) But statements such as this add grist to the view that – though no worse on gender equality than the Mubarak regime – it is in fact the harbinger of a second Iran .
(17) Grist recently reported: “Americans drive a lot – about 8.9m miles each day during the summer driving season last year, an increase of about 3.7% over the year before.
(18) Disarray and acrimony over the EU arms embargo was grist to Assad's mill.
(19) Eastwood's rambling, freestyle address prompted a storm on Twitter and provided grist for US chatshow hosts in the weeks that followed.
(20) A bad break-up proved grist to his epigrammatic mill ("This person that I thought was the love of my life ended up being the love of my youth," he says) and gave him his abiding lyrical theme: the conflicted nature of desire.
Grit
Definition:
(n.) Sand or gravel; rough, hard particles.
(n.) The coarse part of meal.
(n.) Grain, esp. oats or wheat, hulled and coarsely ground; in high milling, fragments of cracked wheat smaller than groats.
(n.) A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; as, millstone grit; -- called also gritrock and gritstone. The name is also applied to a finer sharp-grained sandstone; as, grindstone grit.
(n.) Structure, as adapted to grind or sharpen; as, a hone of good grit.
(n.) Firmness of mind; invincible spirit; unyielding courage; fortitude.
(v. i.) To give forth a grating sound, as sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.
(v. t.) To grind; to rub harshly together; to grate; as, to grit the teeth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Distribution of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) in sewage wastes at a municipal sewage treatment plant was studied, showing that the great bulk of PCBs entering such a treatment plant become adsorbed onto the grit chamber solids and the sludge that is passed from the anaerobic digesters.
(2) We suggest that other functions than grinding, such as supplying minerals, may be equally important functions of the grit.
(3) A lesser amount of toxin was produced on rice, but none was detected in wheat incubated at 20 C. The amount of toxin measured in white corn grits declined as the incubation temperature was raised to 20, 25, and 32 C.
(4) The notion that Gleeson has lurched from one disaster to another, ruining everything from the Coen brothers' remake of True Grit to Richard Curtis's romcom About Time , seems a pretty unique interpretation of his burgeoning career as a versatile character actor.
(5) For that matter, mulching with bark, grit or slate will help keep the surface roots cooler and retain moisture in hot weather.
(6) The effect of different modes of the hydrothermal treatment of buckwheat and of the grit cooking on a change in the composition of sterols and phospholipids was investigated.
(7) Chrysler aired a commercial during the Super Bowl declaring its cars were “imported from Detroit,” playing upon the city’s grit and determination to sell cars we barely made.
(8) She shares her conflicted instincts, the personal frustration, the gritted teeth effort to stay afloat when the team was coming apart ... a declaration a lot of women will recognise: “I felt I could hold things together.” The eventual decision that the show could no longer stay afloat.
(9) Days when the only thing to do is to grit one’s teeth and force oneself to think different thoughts.
(10) The diamond fraise is a more exacting instrument and with the recent introduction of the extra-coarse grit diamond fraise, the instrument is as abrasive as the standard wire brush.
(11) For me, Kitson is at his best when ( as the New York Times said of It's Always Right Now) "he seasons the treacle with grit".
(12) There is still a grit to the brand but it’s been refined, in a natural kind of a way, because now I’m 31, not 21, so there are things I didn’t like before that I like now; things I liked before and now want a better version of.
(13) Sixteen cured samples of each were initially finished with 600-grit paper and then abraded by medium-grit wheels for 30,000 cycles.
(14) We're told that Cameron wanted to create a highly political Thatcher-style policy unit to provide intellectual grit and better communication.
(15) I grit my teeth as the trees hunker down smaller and smaller, then finally give up entirely, leaving us alone in a barren upland area where there is one large grey house partially obscured by torn curtains of freezing rain.
(16) Immediately before being bonded, the amalgam surfaces were finished flat on 600-grit paper.
(17) As burly security men hung back and the promoters sat silently by, Chisora marched on Haye, who gritted his teeth, held on to what those close to him say was a bottle of Desperados, a pale German lager tinged with tequila, and threw an inspired right hand that cracked into the side of Chisora's jaw.
(18) Data are presented for three different grades (400, 500 and 600 grit) of commercially available emory paper and three samples of osteoarthritic femoral head articular cartilage, which were visually assessed as having smooth, intermediate and rough surfaces, respectively.
(19) Set in recession-hit small town America, Gone Girl is a mystery of grit and steel.
(20) It takes grit and it takes grace.” Placing Clinton in a lineage of great American women from Rosa Parks and Amelia Earhart to Harriet Tubman and Eleanor Roosevelt, she told the delegates: “You people have made history and you’re gonna make history again in November because Hillary Clinton will be our first woman president … she’ll be the first but she won’t be the last.” Lena Dunham, creator and star of the HBO series Girls, led a series of celebrity endorsements that joined the dots between Clinton’s breaking of glass ceilings and Trump’s dismissive comments about women.