(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.
Sandy
Definition:
(superl.) Consisting of, abounding with, or resembling, sand; full of sand; covered or sprinkled with sand; as, a sandy desert, road, or soil.
(superl.) Of the color of sand; of a light yellowish red color; as, sandy hair.
Example Sentences:
(1) The influence of salt mixtures consisting of Ca(H2PO4)2, trace elements, CaSO4, CaCO3, Na2CO3, NaCl and K2SO4 in different combinations on the nitrifying power, evolution of carbon dioxide and the total number of bacteria was studied in arid soils (sandy and alluvial) and semi-humid ones (chernozem and rendzina).
(2) Laura Sandys, Conservative MP and part of the ministerial team at the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc), highlighted the problem of public opposition shale gas is likely to face: "Onshore wind is a walk in the park, by comparison."
(3) Clinton met with Jane Dougherty, sister of Mary Sherlach, who was slain at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012; Tom Sullivan and Matthew Jenks, the father and brother-in-law, respectively, of Alex Sullivan, who was killed in the 2012 movie theater shootings in Aurora, Colorado; and Coni Sanders, daughter of Dave Sanders, killed in the 1999 Columbine High School shootings in Colorado.
(4) I would like to place on record our sincere thanks to Owen, Sandy Stewart [Coyle's assistant] and Steve Davis [coach] for all their hard work during their time at Bolton Wanderers."
(5) New employment data today suggested that hurricane Sandy is hurting already tenuous US job growth.
(6) A man who had been near them reached the hotel terrace first, scrambling up a steep sandy bank.
(7) The long, curving, sandy Plage des Chevrets is one of the prettiest on Brittany's Emerald Coast.
(8) It's wise, however, not to concentrate on the exact path of Sandy.
(9) This is why we have seen these horrible events [like typhoon Haiyan and hurricane Sandy] in the past few years, with many people affected.
(10) But the president’s big push for stricter gun control laws after the Sandy Hook shooting failed to get those 60 Senate votes necessary, after strong opposition from the NRA and other gun rights groups.
(11) Adult, male rats were gavaged with an aqueous suspension of 14C-toluene in the presence or absence of either an Atsion (sandy soil) or a Keyport soil (clay soil).
(12) Shortly after the Sandy Hook massacre he assigned vice president Joe Biden to lead a task force looking at new legislation.
(13) The field was taped off while a mechanical digger clawed at the ground, making parallel trenches in the sandy earth.
(14) Abnormal events such as Hurricane Sandy , which cost $65bn (£40bn) and the 2011-12 US drought, which cost $35bn (£21bn) may be just foretasters of the price to be paid.
(15) I don’t know if it’s true.” She began to lose hope as she criss-crossed the sandy forest paths.
(16) In the three months since the 14 December shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, the NRA has been lobbying vociferously against President Obama's attempt to tighten gun controls.
(17) But the lawyers for the Sandy Hook families are not arguing that the single transaction was handled negligently.
(18) Congress almost acted in April 2013 in the wake of the Sandy Hook school massacre in which Adam Lanza killed 20 children and six adults, a moment when voters wanted gun control more than at any point since the Columbine shooting of 1999.
(19) Climate change is making these sorts of storms more common, much as it is making Sandy-like superstorms and unusually intense hurricanes more common.” Those storms were not created by climate change, Mann said.
(20) From here the view is breathtaking; looking down on Loch Coruisk and tiny sandy beaches below all ringed by the looming jagged peaks of the Cuillin.