What's the difference between gritty and nonabrasive?

Gritty


Definition:

  • (a.) Containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; caused by grit; full of hard particles.
  • (a.) Spirited; resolute; unyielding.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Given his background, Boyle says, growing up in a council house near Bury, with his two sisters (one a twin) and his strict and hard-working parents (his mum worked as a dinner lady at his school), he should by rights have been a gritty social realist, but that tradition never appealed to him.
  • (2) San Francisco Tenderloin map They could potentially gentrify this gritty, 50-block swath of downtown into condos, lofts, hipster bars, organic cafes and yoga studios, as has happened in other parts of San Francisco and the Bay area.
  • (3) Concluding that he didn't really want a career as a gritty Northern Irish realist, Harvey decided to train as a teacher.
  • (4) Sitting in the bar at the Lowry theatre in Salford’s Media City, Shindler is talking about the word “gritty”.
  • (5) Click here to view video This year has been all about exciting gritty modern TV dramas.
  • (6) A gritty town battered by the decline of its lumber industry, it is mocked as hicksville by its rival, snootier neighbour, the university city Eugene, which Groening renamed Shelbyville.
  • (7) It manages to be both hard-hitting and emotional, gritty and warm."
  • (8) The chief executive is pinning early hopes on Breaking Bad, a gritty US drama in which a chemistry teacher with terminal cancer sets up a crystal meth lab, which was barely noticed when it aired on 5USA, although for all its merits it might not exactly be classified as family entertainment.
  • (9) Yet there is a tendency to switch off from this conversation as it moves from ambitious words and statements on to the nitty gritty of implementation.
  • (10) Bellows is known for his powerful paintings representing the hardship and desperation and grittiness of life in New York as it emerged in to the 20th century.
  • (11) "There is plenty of gritty contemporary life on the wrong side of the tracks, but there is also a ridiculous story of revenge.
  • (12) The chondroblastoma was located in a small gritty mass at one pole of the cyst, which could have easily been overlooked.
  • (13) That’s a difficult exercise, particularly with all the lawyers involved in the process and looking at the nitty-gritty of every word that is written down,” Zarif told journalists during a visit to Madrid.
  • (14) Fifteen years ago, the flag was the subject of a gritty partisan struggle in the state house and an economic boycott by the NAACP.
  • (15) Symptoms of grittiness and morning stickiness were more frequent among patients without enhanced responses.
  • (16) Prey is a gritty, concretey number, and while Reinhardt may be the least-kempt of the cast, every character drinks too much, looks constantly knackered and is therefore entirely believable.
  • (17) Of 440 amputations for vascular disease, 193 were above-knee, 193 below-knee, 15 Gritti-Stokes, 15 through-knee and 24 bilateral.
  • (18) In her day this was a gritty neighbourhood and it hasn’t changed much, with a shabby market by the metro station and blocks of peeling townhouses; this is the real, old Paris, the world she sang about, with its desperate cast of thieves and tramps and lovers.
  • (19) "That kind of geographic splitting can certainly create opportunities for speciation, so it's a plausible mechanism, but I'd like to see a more extensive and fine-grained review of the evidence than Mark and his coauthors could cram into their paper – one that gets into the nitty-gritty of where the basins were, when the marine barriers between them would have appeared and disappeared, and what lived in them."
  • (20) Fishwick's layer upon layer of northern grittiness versus southern sniffiness will be grating for some.

Nonabrasive


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Electron photomicrographs were made of surfaces of a microfilled and a hybrid composite resin restorative material polished by various reciprocal-action polishing procedures, including several types of polishing pastes used with nonabrasive plastic tips.
  • (2) In the absence of any reliable and biological product capable to seal efficiently the open tubules, only nonabrasive hygiene methods can preserve the integrity of cervical dental tissues.
  • (3) Necessary resealing results in thicker layers of sealer in the nonabrased areas, as determined with the three above-mentioned preparations.