meaning of grind
1. To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones.
2. To wear down, polish, or sharpen, by friction; to make smooth, sharp, or pointed; to whet, as a knife or drill; to rub against one another, as teeth, etc.
3. To oppress by severe exactions; to harass.
4. To study hard for examination.
5. To perform the operation of grinding something; to turn the millstones.
6. To become ground or pulverized by friction; as, this corn grinds well.
7. To become polished or sharpened by friction; as, glass grinds smooth; steel grinds to a sharp edge.
8. To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
9. To perform hard aud distasteful service; to drudge; to study hard, as for an examination.
10. The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
11. Any severe continuous work or occupation; esp. , hard and uninteresting study.
12. A hard student; a dig.
13. GRIND GRaphical INterpretive Display. A graphics input language for the PDP-9. ["GRIND: A Language and Translator for Computer Graphics", A. P. Conn, Dartmouth, June 1969]. [Jargon File]
14. grind 1. MIT and Berkeley To prettify hardcopy of code, especially LISP code, by reindenting lines, printing keywords and comments in distinct fonts if available, etc. This usage was associated with the MacLISP community and is now rare; prettyprint was and is the generic term for such operations. 2. Unix To generate the formatted version of a document from the nroff, troff, TeX, or Scribe source. 3. To run seemingly interminably, especially but not necessarily if performing some tedious and inherently useless task. Similar to crunch or grovel. Grinding has a connotation of using a lot of CPU time, but it is possible to grind a disk, network, etc. See also hog. 4. To make the whole system slow. "Troff really grinds a PDP-11. " 5. "grind grind" excl. Roughly, "Isnt the machine slow today!" [Jargon File]
15. the act of grinding to a powder or dust
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