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grit
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)
- A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
- Sand or a sand–salt mixture spread on wet and, especially, icy roads and footpaths to improve traction.
- Inedible particles in food.
- A measure of the relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper, the smaller the number the coarser the abrasive.
- (geology) A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit.
- 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)
- Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger.
- To cover with grit.
- (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.
- 1767, Oliver Goldsmith, The Hermit
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)
- (usually in the plural) Husked but unground oats.
- (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)
- great
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tenacity
English
Etymology
tenac(ious) +? -ity, from Middle French ténacité, from Latin ten?cit?s.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /t??næs.?.ti/
- (General American) IPA(key): /t??næs?ti/
- Hyphenation: tena?city
Noun
tenacity (countable and uncountable, plural tenacities)
- The quality or state of being tenacious, or persistence of purpose; tenaciousness.
- 2009, Jorge Cham, PHD Comics: Softball: younger and faster:
- — Our opponents may be younger, faster and less out of shape than we are, but we have something they’ll never have!
- — Tenure?
- — Tenacity!
- 2009, Jorge Cham, PHD Comics: Softball: younger and faster:
- The quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force, as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.
- The effect of this attraction, cohesiveness.
- The quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness, viscosity.
- (physics) The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder, usually expressed with reference to a unit area of the cross section of the substance, as the number of pounds per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce rupture.
Synonyms
- (state of being tenacious): tenaciousness, determination, persistency, retentiveness, stubbornness
- (quality keeping bodies together): cohesiveness
- (quality making bodies adhere): adhesiveness, viscosity
Antonyms
- (quality keeping bodies together): brittleness, fragility, mobility
Related terms
- tenacious
- tenaciously
Translations
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