Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter G

Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter G - Page 45

Grin (v. i.) To set the teeth together and open the lips, or to open the mouth and withdraw the lips from the teeth, so as to show them, as in laughter, scorn, or pain.

The pangs of death do make him grin. -- Shak.

Grin (v. t.) To express by grinning.

Grinned horrible a ghastly smile. -- Milton.

Grin (n.) The act of closing the teeth and showing them, or of withdrawing the lips and showing the teeth; a hard, forced, or sneering smile. -- I.Watts.

He showed twenty teeth at a grin. -- Addison.

Grin (n.) A facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement [syn: smile, smiling, grin, grinning].

Grin (v.) To draw back the lips and reveal the teeth, in a smile, grimace, or snarl.

Ground (imp. & p. p.) of Grind.

Grinding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Grind.

Grind (v. t.) 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.

Take the millstones, and grind meal. -- Is. xivii. 2.

Grind (v. t.) 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.

Grind (v. t.) To oppress by severe exactions; to harass.

To grind the subject or defraud the prince. -- Dryden.

Grind (v. t.) To study hard for examination ; -- commonly used with away; as, to grind away at one's studies. [College Slang]

Grind (v. i.) To perform the operation of grinding something; to turn the millstones.

Send thee Into the common prison, there to grind. -- Milton.

Grind (v. i.) To become ground or pulverized by friction; as, this corn grinds well.

Grind (v. i.) To become polished or sharpened by friction; as, glass grinds smooth; steel grinds to a sharp edge.

Grind (v. i.) To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.

Grind (v. i.) To perform hard aud distasteful service; to drudge; to study hard, as for an examination.

Grind (n.) The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.

Grind (n.) Any severe continuous work or occupation; esp., hard and uninteresting study. [Colloq.] -- T. Hughes.

Grind (n.) A student that studies hard; a dig; a wonk. [College Slang]

Grind (n.) An insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious [syn: swot, grind, nerd, wonk, dweeb].

Grind (n.) The grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground; "a coarse grind of coffee."

Grind (n.) Hard monotonous routine work [syn: drudgery, plodding, grind, donkeywork].

Grind (n.) The act of grinding to a powder or dust [syn: grind, mill, pulverization, pulverisation].

Grind (v.) Press or grind with a crushing noise [syn: crunch, cranch, craunch, grind].

Grind (v.) Make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together; "grate one's teeth in anger" [syn: grate, grind].

Grind (v.) Work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil].

Grind (v.) Dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced.

Grind (v.) Reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading; "grind the spices in a mortar"; "mash the garlic" [syn: grind, mash, crunch, bray, comminute].

Grind (v.) Created by grinding; "grind designs into the glass bowl."

Grind (v.) Shape or form by grinding; "grind lenses for glasses and cameras."

Grind (v. t.) [MIT and Berkeley; now rare] 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.

Grind (v. t.) [Unix] To generate the formatted version of a document from the troff, TeX, or Scribe source.

Grind (v. t.) [common] To run seemingly interminably, esp. (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.

Grind (v. t.) To make the whole system slow. ?Troff really grinds a PDP-11.?

Grind (v. t.) Grind grind excl. Roughly, ?Isn't the machine slow today!?

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] (1995-01-31)
Grind, () (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.

Grind, () (Unix) To generate the formatted version of a document from the nroff, troff, TeX, or Scribe source.

Grind, () 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.