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Uncommongrit
The correct spelling is grit.
How to pronounce grit
/ˈɡɹɪt/
nounIPA: /ˈɡɹɪt/
Say it like: Gri-t
The correct spelling is grit. A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking. For example: "The flower beds were white with grit from sand blasting the flagstone walkways."
Usage Examples
“The flower beds were white with grit from sand blasting the flagstone walkways.”
“These cookies seem to have grit from nutshells in them.”
“I need a sheet of 100 grit sandpaper.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
- 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.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.
verb
- 1.Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger.
- 2.To cover with grit.
- 3.To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.
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