different between daring vs grit

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?????/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d?????/, /?d????/
• Rhymes: -??r??
• Homophone: derring (in accents with the Mary–marry–merry merger)

Verb

daring

1. present participle of dare

Adjective

daring (comparative more daring, superlative most daring)

1. Adventurous, willing to take on or look for risks; overbold.
2. Courageous or showing bravery; doughty.
   • c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II scene i^[2]:

     […] By this scimitar,

     That slew the Sophy and a Persian prince

     That won three fields of Sultan Solyman,

     I would outstare the sternest eyes that look,

     Outbrave the heart most daring on earth,

     Pluck the young sucking cubs from the she-bear,

     Yea, mock the lion when he roars for prey,

     To win thee, lady. […]

3. Racy; sexually provocative.
   • 2013, Randy Rawls, Best Defense (page 59)

     Just what I wanted, seeing my mom in a daring bikini—or worse yet, my being in one. I had the perfect drawer I could bury it in.

Synonyms

• (adventurous): audacious, dareful, bold, venturesome
• (courageous): See Thesaurus:brave

Derived terms

• daringly
• daringness
• outdaring

Related terms

• daredevil
• dareful
• darer
• daresay

Translations

Noun

daring (usually uncountable, plural darings)

1. Boldness.

Synonyms

• boldness; see also Thesaurus:courage

Translations

Anagrams

• Dargin, Gardin, drag in, gradin, radgin

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dar??/
• Hyphenation: da?ring

Etymology 1

Blend of dalam (“on”) +? jaringan (“network”).

Adjective

daring

1. (computing) online
   • 2019, Wayan Pageyasa & Nur Ihsan HL., Kekerasan Bahasa Di Media Daring Nasional, Deepublish Publisher, page 9.

Noun

daring (first-person possessive daringku, second-person possessive daringmu, third-person possessive daringnya)

1. (computing) online

Synonyms

• dalam jaringan

Antonyms

• luar jaringan, luring

Etymology 2

Clipping of kelas daring (“online class”).

Noun

daring

1. (colloquial) online class

Further reading

• “daring” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Karao

Noun

daring

1. small fish

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

With early modern vowel shortening, from Middle English grete, griet, from Old English gr?ot, from Proto-Germanic *greut? (compare German Grieß, Swedish gryta, Norwegian Nynorsk grjot), from Proto-Indo-European *g?r-eu-d- (compare Lithuanian grúodas (“frost; frozen street dirt”), Serbo-Croatian gr?da (“lump”)).

Noun

grit (uncountable)

1. A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
   1. Sand or a sand–salt mixture spread on wet and, especially, icy roads and footpaths to improve traction.
2. Inedible particles in food.

3. A measure of the relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper, the smaller the number the coarser the abrasive.

4. (geology) A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit.
5. Strength of mind; great courage or fearlessness; fortitude.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of C. Reade to this entry?)

Derived terms

• gritten
• gritty

Related terms

• grind
• grindstone
• sand, sandy, sandblasting

Translations

See also

• debris
• mortar and pestle
• swarf

Verb

grit (third-person singular simple present grits, present participle gritting, simple past and past participle gritted or (nonstandard) grit)

1. Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger.

2. To cover with grit.
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.
   • 1767, Oliver Goldsmith, The Hermit

     The sanded |floor that grits beneath the tread.

Derived terms

• grit one's teeth

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English gryt (“bran, chaff”), from Old English grytt, from Proto-Germanic *grutj? (“coarsely ground bits”) (compare Dutch grut, German Grütze), ablaut variant of Proto-Indo-European *g?r-eu-d-. See above.

Noun

grit (plural grits)

1. (usually in the plural) Husked but unground oats.
2. (usually in the plural) Coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge.

Related terms

• groat
• grout
• gruel

Translations

Anagrams

• girt, trig

Scots

Adjective

grit (comparative mair grit, superlative maist grit)

1. great