Gritnoun

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  governmentpoliticsA member or supporter of the Liberal Party of Canada or one of its provincial wings (except for the Quebec provincial wing).

Gritadj

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  governmentpoliticsOf or belonging to the Liberal Party of Canada.

gritnoun詞源 1/ɡɹɪt/

• 1

  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

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

• 3

  Small, hard, inedible particles in food.

  • These cookies seem to have grit from nutshells in them.
• 4

  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.
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  geographygeologynatural-sciencesA hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit.

• 6

  Strength of mind; courage or fearlessness; fortitude.

  • That kid with the cast on his arm has the grit to play dodgeball.
  • They came to a rising ground , not sharp , but long ; and here youth and grit and sober living told more than ever.

gritverb詞源 1/ɡɹɪt/

• 1

  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.
  • He has a sleeping disorder and grits his teeth.
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  To cover with grit.

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  obsoleteTo give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.

  • The sanded floor that grits beneath the tread

gritnoun詞源 2/ɡɹɪt/

• 1

  Husked but unground oats.

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  Coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge.

  • grits and eggs
  • ham and grits