different between grit vs grus

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

English

Noun

grus (plural gruses)

1. (geology) An accumulation of angular, coarse-grained fragments (particles of sand and gravel) resulting from the chemical and mechanical weathering of crystalline rocks.

Anagrams

• rugs

Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German gr?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ru?s/, [???u??s]

Noun

grus n (singular definite gruset, not used in plural form)

1. gravel

References

• “grus” in Den Danske Ordbog

Latin

Etymology

From *gr?h?ú-, from Proto-Indo-European *gerh?- (“to cry hoarsely”). Cognate to English crane, but not to grouse, whose etymology is unknown.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ru?s/, [?ru?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?rus/, [?rus]

Noun

gr?s m or f (genitive gruis); third declension

1. crane, a bird also eaten as food
2. a type of siege weapon

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (weapon): corvus

Derived terms

• gru?

Descendants

References

• grus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• grus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• grus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German grus

Noun

grus m or n (definite singular grusen or gruset)

1. gravel

Derived terms

• grusvei, grusveg

References

• “grus” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Low German grus

Noun

grus m or n (definite singular grusen or gruset)

1. gravel

Derived terms

• grusveg

References

• “grus” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish grus, from Middle Low German grus.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??s

Noun

grus n

1. gravel; small pieces of stone
2. red clay (on a tennis court), hard court

Declension

Related terms

See also

• asfalt
• gräs
• morän
• sand
• singel
• stone

References

• grus in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Vilamovian

Pronunciation

Adjective

gr?s

1. great
2. big

Antonyms

• (big): kl?n