grind away....The daily grind

If you like to grind your own coffee beans, it means you prefer to buy whole beans, put them in an electric grinder, and pulverize them into tiny bits before you brew your coffee.

When you grind something, you mill or crush it into smaller pieces, the way you grind pepper or grind a grain into flour. Two things that rub up against each other also grind together, which is what your teeth do if you grind them in your sleep. Informally,grind also means boring, tedious work, often in the sense of "grind away" or "the daily grind." This sense of grind was invented in the 1800s as college slang.

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF:grind

1	vn	reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
2	nv	hard monotonous routine work
3	v	dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced
4	n	an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: grind

1

vreduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading

“grind the spices in a mortar”

Synonyms:

bray, comminute, crunch, mash

Types:

pulp

reduce to pulp

pestle

grind, mash or pulverize in a mortar

mill

grind with a mill

Type of:

break up, fragment, fragmentise, fragmentize

break or cause to break into pieces

vpress or grind with a crushing noise

Synonyms:

cranch, craunch, crunch

Type of:

press

exert pressure or force to or upon

vcreated by grinding

“grind designs into the glass bowl”

Type of:

create, make

make or cause to be or to become

vshape or form by grinding

“grind lenses for glasses and cameras”

Type of:

forge, form, mold, mould, shape, work

make something, usually for a specific function

vmake a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together

Synonyms:

grate

Types:

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Type of:

break up, fragment, fragmentise, fragmentize

break or cause to break into pieces

nthe act of grinding to a powder or dust

Synonyms:

mill, pulverisation, pulverization

Type of:

compaction, crunch, crush

the act of crushing

nthe grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground

“a coarse grind of coffee”

Type of:

degree, grade, level

a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality

2

nhard monotonous routine work

Synonyms:

donkeywork, drudgery, plodding

Type of:

labor, labour, toil

productive work (especially physical work done for wages)

vwork hard

Synonyms:

dig, drudge, fag, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail

Type of:

do work, work

be employed

3

vdance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced

Type of:

dance, trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe

move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance

4

nan insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious

Synonyms:

dweeb, nerd, swot, wonk

Type of:

assimilator, learner, scholar

someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs

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WORD FAMILY

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grinding

grinder

the "grind" family

USAGE EXAMPLES

• The tradition of organ grinding is still part of his family, though.
  BBC Jan 10, 2014
• In a diary kept during the trip, soldier George Bradley wrote that it was, "a ceaseless grind... which taxed our strength to the limit".
  BBC Jan 4, 2014
• “They blend and grind to order, and you can get ingredients you don’t typically see everywhere, like an assortment of curries and masalas.”
  Seattle Times Jan 2, 2014
• "And I think that if we just keep grinding, keep our minds into it, it could be a hell of a year."
  Chicago Tribune Jan 2, 2014

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