grit

«grit» in Mova's school dictionary: Tiny hard bits of stone or sand — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (grit — uncountable); verb (grit, grits, gritted, gritting)

meaning for a pupil

1) Tiny hard bits of stone or sand. tree →

2) Courage and determination to keep going when things are hard. tree →

3) To spread grit or salt on icy roads so they are less slippery (UK: gritting). tree →

4) Grit your teeth: to press your teeth together, or to bravely put up with something hard. tree →

sense in the lessons

In school «grit» is talked about as a good quality: not giving up, practising, bouncing back after mistakes (like a growth mindset). In science, grit and sand make up soil and are used in filters. In winter safety, roads and paths are gritted so people don't slip. In stories a gritty hero keeps going. Phrases: grit your teeth, show grit, true grit, grit lorry (UK), gritty.

examples

• I got a bit of grit in my eye at the beach. tree →
• It takes grit to keep practising when it's hard. tree →
• She gritted her teeth and finished the race. tree →
• The council gritted the roads before the snow. tree →
• Rinse the grit off the vegetables. tree →
• Sandpaper has fine grit on one side. tree →
• With grit and hard work, he learned to swim. tree →
• Feel where she would, there was nothing but grit and stones, when, suddenly, her fingers touched something soft in a crevice. tree →

note

«Grit» is uncountable: some grit, a bit of grit. Past: gritted. «Grits» (plural) in the southern USA is a porridge made from ground corn.

In the corpora

• Salt from sea spray or from gritted winter roads makes iron rust faster, so cars and railings by the sea rust quickly.
• Iron rusts only when it has both oxygen and water; salt from sea spray or gritted roads makes it rust faster.
• Grit or sand sprinkled on an icy path gives shoes more grip.
• Sand and grit in the eye can scratch it, which hurts and can need a doctor.
• Rinsing a graze under clean running water washes out grit; stinging antiseptic is not needed for most grazes.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «grit» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.