Word Finder - grinding

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To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.

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To shape with the force of friction.

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grind a lens; grind an axe

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To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.

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To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.

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Steel grinds to a sharp edge.

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To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.

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To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.

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To oppress, hold down or weaken.

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To rotate the hips erotically.

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To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed against each other.

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To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.

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To operate by turning a crank.

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to grind an organ

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To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.

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To automatically format and indent code.

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To instill through repetitive teaching.

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Grinding lessons into students' heads does not motivate them to learn.

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To eat.

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Eh, brah, let's go grind.

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To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.

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To annoy or irritate (a person); to grind one's gears.

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The action of grinding together or crushing into small particles.

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Ominous creakings and grindings came from the innards of the machine.

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A form of dance in which two people rub their bodies together.

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Repeatedly performing the same quest or similar in-game activity in order to amass points or wealth.

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Of or pertaining to the act or sound of grinding.

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The meeting came to a grinding halt when the two sides could not agree.

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Hard and tedious.

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a week filled with grinding toil

A grinding noise jerked her attention back to the car.

Her knees hit the floor with a grinding jolt, and the fox seized the opportunity.

His teeth were grinding loudly enough for her to hear, and his face was ashen and drawn in a look of pain.  He couldn't answer – that much she discerned at the rippling muscles of his clenched jaw.

Definitely not a virgin, not the way she was grinding up against Joe Jock.

There wasn't any bumping and grinding and those beds are noisy.

The plates are compressed from before backwards, the anterior and posterior surfaces (as seen in the worn grinding face of the tooth) being nearly parallel.

Now, if CD is pressed by its weight or by a spring on the surface AB, the effect of wear will be to produce a symmetrical grinding away of both surfaces, which may be represented thus, fig.

Glass stoppers are fitted to bottles by grinding.

Such implements as have survived are of the rudest description, and include querns or stone handmills for grinding corn, stone worts and bone combs employed in primitive forms of woollen manufacture, and specimens of simple pottery ware.

There can be little doubt that before the AngloSaxons came to Britain they possessed no instrument for grinding corn except the quern (cweorn), and in remote districts this continued in use until quite late times.

The grinding seems to have been performed chiefly by female slaves, but occasionally we hear also of a donkey-mill (esolcweorn).

Despite the harsh land-laws and grinding taxation which prevent them, with all their industry and thrift, from securing the freehold of the patch of ground cultivated by each peasant family, the Asturians regard themselves as the aristocracy of Spain.

Swaying upward with the roll of the ship the two foremost brows came down scraping and grinding along the mole.

Many fish inhabited the Carboniferous seas and most of these were Elasmobranchs, sharks with crushing pavement teeth (Psammodus), adapted for grinding the shells of brachiopods, crustaceans, &c. Other sharks had piercing teeth (Cladoselache and Cladodus); some, the petalodonts, had peculiar cycloid cutting teeth.

The consummate hardness of the diamond, in spite of its high price, has made it most useful for purposes of grinding, polishing and drilling.

In the cheekteeth the sectorial or scissor-like cutting function is developed at the expense of the tubercular or grinding, there being only one rudimentary tooth of the latter form in the upper jaw, and none in FIG.

Over the dusty hood, the yawning valley beckoned, and then... the sound of metal grinding against rock.

In total loss of her temper, she marched over and stomped on the phone, grinding it under her boot heel.

Both the grinding and polishing tools are grooved, to obtain a uniform distribution of the emery used in the grinding process and of the rouge employed in polishing, as also to provide for the lateral expansion of the pitch with which the polisher is coated.

The surface of this was brought by planing, grinding and other means to the highest possible pitch of smoothness and evenness.

It is suggested that these teeth may have been employed for cracking nuts or hard seeds; although also used for grinding.

Owen's description showed this view to be groundless, and he attributed the extraordinary development of the toucan's beak to the need of compensating, by the additional power of mastication thus given, for the absence of any of the grinding structures that are so characteristic of the intestinal tract of vegetable-eating birds - its digestive organs possessing a general simplicity of formation.

The slag is used in agriculture with no further preparation, save very fine grinding.

Bakers' shops are also frequent, though arrangements for grinding and baking appear to have formed part of every large family establishment.

Her grip, it's crushing, grinding the broken bones in his hands together.

The water from the stream originally provided the steam to power the workings for grinding the corn for local farmers.

They heard a crunching, grinding sound, a loud snap, and the turn-table came to a stop with its broadest surface shutting off the path from which they had come.

Other objects found in the graves are small flint knives, stone axes, flint and lumps of pyrites for obtaining fire, and, in the womens graves, hand-mills for grinding corn.

In the Roman period a larger stone was used, with a rectangular slab (96) sliding on it, in which a long trough held the grain and let it slip out below for grinding.

Probably the first lorming was done by chipping and hammer-dressing, as in later times; the final facing of the hard stones was doubtless by sieans of emery in block or powder, as emery grinding blocks tre found.

It shows no trace of grinding lines or attrition, nor yet of the blows of a hammer.

They are not usually manufactured by the careful grinding together of the pozzuolana and the lime, but are mixed roughly, a great excess of pozzuolana being employed.

Thorough grinding and mixing are of the utmost importance, as otherwise the cement ultimately produced will be unsound and of inferior quality.

The grinding of the hard rock-like masses of clinker is effected between millstones, or in modern plants in ball-mills, tube-mills and edge-runners.

By this method grinding the hard limestone is avoided, but there is an extra expenditure of fuel in the double burning.

Nothing is added during or after grinding save a small amount (I to 2%) of calcium sulphate in the form either of gypsum or of plaster of Paris, which is sometimes needed to make the cement slower-setting.

It is made by granulating blast furnace slag of suitable composition and finely grinding the product, either alone or with an admixture of about To% of Portland cement clinker.

The former needs only grinding to constitute the final product, ammoniasoda ash; the latter is again employed in the process of treating the ammoniacal salt solution with carbon dioxide.

Knowing the theory of his instrument, and possessed of much practical skill, coupled with unwearied patience, he conquered the difficulties of grinding and polishing the lenses, and soon succeeded in producing telescopes of greatly increased power.

After much experiment he selected an alloy of tin and copper as the most suitable material for his specula, and he devised means for grinding and polishing them.

The relative motion of the faces of contact of the ridges anc grooves is a rotatory slidiug or grinding motion, about the line 01 contact of the pitch-surfaces as an instantaneous axis.

Two of its chief causes probably are (r) improvement in cookery, whereby the harder and more irritating parts of the food are softened or removed; and (2) improvement in grinding machinery, whereby the harder and more stimulating parts of the grain are separated from the finer flour which is used for bread.

Rowland and Macfadyen for the same purpose introduced the method of grinding the bacilli in liquid air.

It consists in wet-stamping coarsely crushed ore, settling the sands and slimes produced, and grinding and amalgamating them in steam-heated iron pans with or without the use of chemicals (salt and copper sulphate).

This turns the grinding apparatus (driver with "muller"), which can be raised and lowered.

To the bottom and muller are attached grinding plates (shoes and dies), which are replaced when worn; and to the sides three wings to deflect the moving pulp towards the centre, and thus establish the necessary pulp current.

After grinding, the muller is raised and quicksilver added, and the silver up to 81.04% then amalgamated in 4 hours.

P. Boss has modified the ordinary plant by making the pulp flowing from the stamps pass through a grinding pan, then through a series of amalgamating pans followed by a row of settlers.

With the laudable object of releasing Danish trade from the grinding yoke of the Hansa, and making Copenhagen the great emporium of the north, Christian had arbitrarily raised the Sound tolls and seized a number of Dutch ships which presumed to evade the tax.

The stone hatchets are symmetrically shaped and edged by grinding, while the cutting flakes, scrapers, spear and arrow heads are of high finish.