grind
part of speech
verb (grind, grinds, ground, grinding); noun (the grind)
meaning for a pupil
1) To crush something into tiny pieces or powder, like grinding wheat into flour or coffee beans. tree →
2) To make something sharp or smooth by rubbing it on a hard surface. tree →
3) To rub things together hard and noisily: «grind your teeth». tree →
4) (noun, informal) Hard, boring work that goes on and on: «the daily grind». tree →
5) «grind to a halt» means slowly stop. tree →
sense in the lessons
In history and science, mills ground grain into flour; teeth grind food. In health, grinding your teeth at night can harm them. In everyday talk, «back to the grind» means back to work. Phrases: «grind to a halt», «grind your teeth», «the daily grind».
examples
- The mill grinds wheat into flour. tree →
- Pepper is ground in a pepper mill. tree →
- Some people grind their teeth in their sleep. tree →
- The traffic ground to a halt. tree →
- Our back teeth grind our food. tree →
- He ground the knife on a stone to sharpen it. tree →
- After the holidays, it's back to the grind. tree →
- And the Goblin put the tongue on the coffee-mill, and how it began to grind! tree →
note
Irregular past: grind – ground – ground. «Ground» is also a noun (the earth under your feet) — two different words. Don't confuse «grind» with «grin» (smile).
In the corpora
- Ostriches swallow pebbles, which collect in the gizzard and grind tough food, because birds have no teeth.
- Duck-billed dinosaurs, or hadrosaurs, such as Edmontosaurus had hundreds of teeth packed together to grind plants.
- Wheat is a tall grass whose seeds, the grains, are ground into flour.
- Windmills and watermills once ground grain between big stones; today most flour is made in huge roller mills.
- A grown-up set has 8 incisors for cutting, 4 canines for gripping, 8 premolars and 12 molars for grinding.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «grind» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.