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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

Etymology

Recorded since 1412, as Middle English resolucioun (“a breaking into part”), either from Anglo-Norman resolucion or directly from Latin resol?ti? (“a loosening, solution”), from resolv? (“I loosen”), itself from the intensive prefix re- + solv? (“I loosen”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???z??lu??(?)n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???z??l(j)u?(?)n/
• Rhymes: -u???n
• Hyphenation: re?so?lu?tion

Noun

resolution (countable and uncountable, plural resolutions)

1. A strong will, determination.
2. The state of being resolute.

3. A statement of intent, a vow

4. The act of discerning detail.
5. (computing, photography) The degree of fineness with which an image can be recorded or produced, often expressed as the number of pixels per unit of length (typically an inch).

6. (computing) The number of pixels in an image being stored or displayed.

7. (computing) The process of determining the meaning of a symbol or address; lookup.

   name resolution

8. (mathematics) The act or process of solving; solution.

   the resolution of an equation

9. A formal statement adopted by an assembly, or during any other formal meeting.

   The resolution was passed by a two-thirds majority.

10. (sciences) The separation of the constituent parts (of a spectrum etc).
11. (sciences) The degree of fineness of such a separation.
12. (music) Progression from dissonance to consonance; a chord to which such progression is made.
13. (literature) The moment in which the conflict ends and the outcome of the action is clear.
14. (medicine) In a pathological process, the phase during which pathogens and damaged tissues are removed by macrophages.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:obstinacy

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• polygon resolution
• texture resolution

References

• resolution on Wikipedia.Wikipedia