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Meaning of grind

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  grind
      n 1: an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected
           or boringly studious [syn: {swot}, {grind}, {nerd}, {wonk},
           {dweeb}]
      2: the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is
         ground; "a coarse grind of coffee"
      3: hard monotonous routine work [syn: {drudgery}, {plodding},
         {grind}, {donkeywork}]
      4: the act of grinding to a powder or dust [syn: {grind},
         {mill}, {pulverization}, {pulverisation}]
      v 1: press or grind with a crushing noise [syn: {crunch},
           {cranch}, {craunch}, {grind}]
      2: make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together; "grate
         one's teeth in anger" [syn: {grate}, {grind}]
      3: 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}]
      4: 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
      5: 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}]
      6: created by grinding; "grind designs into the glass bowl"
      7: shape or form by grinding; "grind lenses for glasses and
         cameras"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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