Grit

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.

   “The flower beds were white with grit from sand blasting the flagstone walkways.”

2. isim Sand or a sand–salt mixture spread on wet and, especially, icy roads and footpaths to improve traction.
3. isim Small, hard, inedible particles in food.

   “These cookies seem to have grit from nutshells in them.”

4. isim 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.

   “I need a sheet of 100 grit sandpaper.”

5. isim A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit.
6. isim Strength of mind; courage or fearlessness; fortitude.

   “That kid with the cast on his arm has the grit to play dodgeball.”

7. fiil To clench (one's teeth), particularly in reaction to pain or anger.

   “We had no choice but to grit our teeth and get on with it.”

8. fiil To cover with grit.
9. fiil To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.

   “The sanded floor that grits beneath the tread”

10. isim Husked but unground oats.
11. isim Coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge.

    “grits and eggs”

12. isim A member or supporter of the Liberal Party of Canada or one of its provincial wings (except for the Quebec provincial wing).
13. sıfat Of or belonging to the Liberal Party of Canada.