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adj
Of or belonging to the Liberal Party of Canada.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canadian, not-comparable
Topics: government, politics
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noun
A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
Sand or a sand–salt mixture spread on wet and, especially, icy roads and footpaths to improve traction.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
Small, hard, inedible particles in food.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
A measure of the size of abrasive grains, such as those on sandpaper, and thus their relative coarseness or fineness; the smaller the number, the coarser the abrasive: thus, 60 is rough, 600 is fine, and 3000 is ultrafine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences
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noun
Strength of mind; courage or fearlessness; fortitude.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic, uncountable
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noun
Husked but unground oats.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural-normally
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noun
Coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural-normally
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noun
A member or supporter of the Liberal Party of Canada or one of its provincial wings (except for the Quebec provincial wing).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canadian
Topics: government, politics
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verb
To clench (one's teeth), particularly in reaction to pain or anger.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ergative, transitive
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verb
To cover with grit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, obsolete
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noun
fortitude and determination
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: backbone, guts, moxie, sand, gumption
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fortitude
noun
a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: gritrock, gritstone
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sandstone
verb
clench together
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: clench
verb
cover with a grit
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: coat, surface
History
After the Clear Grits, 19th-century reformers so named because they wanted members who were "all sand and no dirt, clear grit all the way through".
With early modern vowel shortening, from Middle English grete, griet, from Old English grēot, from Proto-West Germanic *greut, from Proto-Germanic *greutą. Compare grist.
From Middle English *gryt (“bran, chaff”), from Old English grytt, from Proto-West Germanic *gruti (“coarsely ground bits”), ablaut variant of Proto-Indo-European *ghrewd-. See above. Doublet of goetta.
Across languages
121 source translations are retained for this English entry.
