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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Grind \Grind\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ground}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Grinding}.] [AS. grindan; perh. akin to L. frendere to gnash, grind. Cf. {Grist}.] 1. To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones. [1913 Webster] Take the millstones, and grind meal. --Is. xivii. 2. [1913 Webster] 2. To wear down, polish, or sharpen, by friction; to make smooth, sharp, or pointed; to whet, as a knife or drill; to rub against one another, as teeth, etc. [1913 Webster] 3. To oppress by severe exactions; to harass. [1913 Webster] To grind the subject or defraud the prince. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 4. To study hard for examination; -- commonly used with away; as, to grind away at one's studies. [College Slang] [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Grind \Grind\, v. i. 1. To perform the operation of grinding something; to turn the millstones. [1913 Webster] Send thee Into the common prison, there to grind. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. To become ground or pulverized by friction; as, this corn grinds well. [1913 Webster] 3. To become polished or sharpened by friction; as, glass grinds smooth; steel grinds to a sharp edge. [1913 Webster] 4. To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate. [1913 Webster] 5. To perform hard and distasteful service; to drudge; to study hard, as for an examination. --Farrar. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Grind \Grind\, n. 1. The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction. [1913 Webster] 2. Any severe continuous work or occupation; esp., hard and uninteresting study. [Colloq.] --T. Hughes. [1913 Webster] 3. A student that studies hard; a dig; a wonk. [College Slang] [1913 Webster +PJC] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: grind n 1: an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious [syn: {swot}, {grind}, {nerd}, {wonk}, {dweeb}] 2: the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground; "a coarse grind of coffee" 3: hard monotonous routine work [syn: {drudgery}, {plodding}, {grind}, {donkeywork}] 4: the act of grinding to a powder or dust [syn: {grind}, {mill}, {pulverization}, {pulverisation}] v 1: press or grind with a crushing noise [syn: {crunch}, {cranch}, {craunch}, {grind}] 2: make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together; "grate one's teeth in anger" [syn: {grate}, {grind}] 3: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: {labor}, {labour}, {toil}, {fag}, {travail}, {grind}, {drudge}, {dig}, {moil}] 4: 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 5: reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading; "grind the spices in a mortar"; "mash the garlic" [syn: {grind}, {mash}, {crunch}, {bray}, {comminute}] 6: created by grinding; "grind designs into the glass bowl" 7: shape or form by grinding; "grind lenses for glasses and cameras" From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]: grind vt. 1. [MIT and Berkeley; now rare] To prettify hardcopy of code, especially LISP code, by reindenting lines, printing keywords and comments in distinct fonts (if available), etc. This usage was associated with the MacLISP community and is now rare; {prettyprint} was and is the generic term for such operations. 2. [Unix] To generate the formatted version of a document from the {troff}, {TeX}, or Scribe source. 3. [common] To run seemingly interminably, esp. (but not necessarily) if performing some tedious and inherently useless task. Similar to {crunch} or {grovel}. Grinding has a connotation of using a lot of CPU time, but it is possible to grind a disk, network, etc. See also {hog}. 4. To make the whole system slow. ?Troff really grinds a {PDP-11}.? 5. grind grind excl. Roughly, ?Isn't the machine slow today!? From Dutch-English Freedict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 [fd-nld-eng]: grind /xrint/ gravel; grit