(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.
Metalwork
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Although Andrei has continued to receive his monthly salary of 4,000 hryvnia (£190), the Ilyicha metalworking factory in nearby Mariupol, which buys most of his mine's coal, recently ceased operations because orders from Russia dropped off, he said.
(2) Many Kenyans are coming to work here – for the agencies in running water, education and health services; as security guards, hoteliers and drivers; and also working for refugee businesses in the camp market that long ago outgrew its allotted space: metalworkers, tailors, computer technicians, traders of everything from sugar to sportswear.
(3) This study examines reproductive end points in a Danish cohort of 10,059 metalworkers who fathered 3,569 children in 1973 through 1986.
(4) After controlling for alcohol use, cigarette smoking, age and education, significantly increased risks were found for painters in construction (odds ratio (OR)) = 2.8, (95% confidence interval (95% CI) 1.1-6.9), supervisors and miscellaneous mechanics (OR = 2.3, 95% CI 1.1-4.8), construction workers (OR = 3.4, 95% CI 1.4-8.1), metalworking and plastic working machine operators (OR = 2.6, 95% CI 1.3-4.9) and handlers, and equipment cleaners and labourers (OR = 1.5, 95% CI 1.0-2.2).
(5) Metalworkers exposed to metalworking fluids often encounter dermatological problems.
(6) It’s a phenomenally complicated product, involving heavy-duty metalwork, precision-moulded plastic components, radio signals from space and apps for your smartphone.
(7) In the cafe across the road from the municipal hall, an unemployed Serb metalworker, Srdjan Jovanovic, bemoaned the death of town.
(8) Other hospitals had workshops for people to do woodwork or metalwork – many of these have now gone.
(9) Metalwork was covered and preserved in 16 cases (57%).
(10) Another third goes to power metalworking plants, which also sell much of their product to Russia.
(11) There has been an extensive growth within the last five years in the use of high-powered lasers in various metalworking processes.
(12) = 0.96-3.31); sheet-metal workers, iron workers, and other metalworkers (OR = 1.57; C.I.
(13) Having reported a net loss of €1.58bn for 2015, the carmaker still went on to pay its 120,000 staff bonuses of €3,950 per head – €474m in total – after pressure from its works committee and the metalworkers’ union.
(14) Once a soot-covered industrial suburb dotted with the chimneys of metalwork shops, it has cleaned up its act but not lost its crooked charm.
(15) The value of works of art lost to Britain Paintings, foreign £489m Paintings, British, modern £463m Drawings, prints, watercolours £187m Manuscripts, documents and archives £119m Oriental furniture, porcelain and works of art £59m Transport £58m Silver, metalwork and jewellery £49m Sculpture £48m Musical instruments £23m Paintings, portraits of British persons £21m Oriental antiquities £21m Furniture and woodwork £19m Middle East antiquities £19m Prehistory & Europe £18m Photographs £13m Books, maps etc £11m Egyptian antiquities £11m Tapestries, carpets etc £10m Pottery £5m Clocks and watches £5m Coins and medals £5m Scientific and mechanical material £2m Drawings: architechtural, engineering and scientific £2m
(16) Metalworking fluids are liquids that flow or are sprayed over metal that is being altered mechanically or physically.
(17) Irritant contact dermatitis is common in metalworkers exposed to metalworking fluids (MWF).
(18) Significantly higher frequencies and averages were found in the group of metalworkers exposed to mental health risks, while no statistically significant results were noted in the other groups, including the group of unemployed.
(19) A total of 188 patients who had metalwork removed were reviewed.
(20) The 30 men in metalworking occupations previously shown to be associated with this cancer were not more frequently diagnosed with the cancer in localized stage, and showed a survival similar to that for the 29 men in other occupations.