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单词 grist
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Definition of grist in English:

grist

noun ɡrɪstɡrɪst
mass noun
  • 1Corn that is ground to make flour.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The reintroduction of a deeply resented tax on grist in the former papal provinces of Emilia and Romagna provoked widespread unrest in the late 1860s.
    • Census of 1861 reported that there were 13 flour and grist mills operating in Simcoe County.
    • Also buried here is a son, Sherwood White, who operated a grist mill on Second Creek a few miles west of Rogersville.
    • The owners of early 19 th-century New England grist mills were usually rather prosperous men, and like most of the population at that time, the majority were farmers.
    Synonyms
    kernel, seed, fruit
    1. 1.1 Malt crushed to make mash for brewing.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • At the distillery, the barley is milled to produce grist, to which heated spring water is added.
  • 2Useful material, especially to support an argument.

    the research provided the most sensational grist for opponents of tobacco
    Example sentencesExamples
    • All of that is good grist for Winchester, who summarizes the grand debates on evolution and even pauses at one point to provide a refresher course in geology in the form of a walk through rockscapes of his childhood.
    • Documents just made public may provide grist for his opponents.
    • This result will be grist for many theoretical papers no doubt, but at the moment we have no understanding of why it is so.
    • Independent researchers are supposed to provide a counterbalance, thwarting the drug industry's tendency to turn research studies into marketing grist.
    • Furthermore, the multiple perspectives may offer the grist needed for marshaling varied arguments on local levels.
    • With the biblical passages you've given me (especially that one from Luke 22), you've given my mind enough grist to turn over for the next couple of weeks.
    • The grist of commercial radio also is relationships, with callers discussing the range of concerns from distribution of money for food and school fees, to domestic violence, alcoholism, affairs, and recipes.
    • The primary thrust has been to provide greater grist for litigation, rather than tackling the hard work of defining acceptable conduct.
    • If that's the case, Dr. Robison's thorough refutation of the conventional wisdom on childhood obesity ought to provide ample grist for the next round of stories on America's battle with the bulge.
    • This subject is interesting grist for graduate seminars, but campus leaders have limited options when faced with a finite budget and rising demand for educational programs and services.
    • The grist was plentiful for Barstow, part of a two-man Times team whose reports on workplace safety were entered in both the investigative reporting and public service categories.
    • And what made the book so important was that it provided grist for a debate which was going on in Washington last year between the Pentagon's civilian political appointees and those in uniform.
    • When those returns are compiled in a single report, they become a story of failure and grist for the ‘I told you so’ crowd and the budgeteers who see reason to strip money for the system from the next budget.
    • The sheer number of fighting vehicles and crack German and Russian divisions engaging in combat there provides grist for any reader of military history, casual or professional.
    • Their failure provides grist for conservative educational ideologues to victim-bash and propagate the phony notion of chronic black educational incompetence.
    • If the adversaries can't agree on a ‘fair’ plea, one side holds out until the other blinks, or they duke it out in trial, where relevant facts are the grist for a good defense.
    • They found grist for their conspiracy theories in the most innocent of details.
    • There is no doubt that this chronological telling, which is scrupulously accurate in its lengthy citations of Luther's writings, provides abundant grist for anti - Protestant polemics.
    • All experience is grist; but he can't plant his easel before a nude, a still-life, a landscape, nor transform a personality tangle into a sonnet-sequence or a novella.
    • But the apparent paradoxes generate great grist for mystery mongers.

Phrases

  • grist to the (or one's) mill

    • Useful experience, material, or knowledge.

      all this free publicity was grist to his mill
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Gun control, crime statistics, global warming and passive smoking are grist to his mill.
      • There's no such thing as a bad experience, it's all just grist to the mill.
      • The inevitable violence of their response was grist to his mill.
      • It all adds grist to the mill of those who claim that unless trained police officers are in charge, corners will always be cut by firms with one eye on the profit margin.
      • But it will fall back to a level of immobility and indecisiveness that can only add grist to the mill of the neoliberals.
      • He is a great talker, a charming and incurable optimist, and everything is grist to his mill.
      • James Joyce valued the everyday, but only if it could be grist to the mill of his highly formal art.
      • If you can think of any more good ones, then please let me know; it will all be grist to my mill.
      • But what is needed first is intellectual grist to the mill - serious ideas discussed by good minds, widely debated, offering the public something to get its teeth into.
      • The shape of the market is going to change but this will be more grist to our mill.

Origin

Old English 'grinding', of Germanic origin; related to grind.

Rhymes

assist, cist, coexist, consist, cyst, desist, enlist, exist, gist, hist, insist, list, Liszt, mist, persist, resist, schist, subsist, tryst, twist, whist, wist, wrist
 
 

Definition of grist in US English:

grist

nounɡrɪstɡrist
  • 1Grain that is ground to make flour.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Census of 1861 reported that there were 13 flour and grist mills operating in Simcoe County.
    • Also buried here is a son, Sherwood White, who operated a grist mill on Second Creek a few miles west of Rogersville.
    • The owners of early 19 th-century New England grist mills were usually rather prosperous men, and like most of the population at that time, the majority were farmers.
    • The reintroduction of a deeply resented tax on grist in the former papal provinces of Emilia and Romagna provoked widespread unrest in the late 1860s.
    Synonyms
    kernel, seed, fruit
    1. 1.1 Malt crushed to make mash for brewing.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • At the distillery, the barley is milled to produce grist, to which heated spring water is added.
  • 2Useful material, especially to back up an argument.

    the research provided the most sensational grist for opponents of tobacco
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The sheer number of fighting vehicles and crack German and Russian divisions engaging in combat there provides grist for any reader of military history, casual or professional.
    • All experience is grist; but he can't plant his easel before a nude, a still-life, a landscape, nor transform a personality tangle into a sonnet-sequence or a novella.
    • All of that is good grist for Winchester, who summarizes the grand debates on evolution and even pauses at one point to provide a refresher course in geology in the form of a walk through rockscapes of his childhood.
    • And what made the book so important was that it provided grist for a debate which was going on in Washington last year between the Pentagon's civilian political appointees and those in uniform.
    • When those returns are compiled in a single report, they become a story of failure and grist for the ‘I told you so’ crowd and the budgeteers who see reason to strip money for the system from the next budget.
    • They found grist for their conspiracy theories in the most innocent of details.
    • Independent researchers are supposed to provide a counterbalance, thwarting the drug industry's tendency to turn research studies into marketing grist.
    • The grist was plentiful for Barstow, part of a two-man Times team whose reports on workplace safety were entered in both the investigative reporting and public service categories.
    • The grist of commercial radio also is relationships, with callers discussing the range of concerns from distribution of money for food and school fees, to domestic violence, alcoholism, affairs, and recipes.
    • This result will be grist for many theoretical papers no doubt, but at the moment we have no understanding of why it is so.
    • Furthermore, the multiple perspectives may offer the grist needed for marshaling varied arguments on local levels.
    • This subject is interesting grist for graduate seminars, but campus leaders have limited options when faced with a finite budget and rising demand for educational programs and services.
    • If that's the case, Dr. Robison's thorough refutation of the conventional wisdom on childhood obesity ought to provide ample grist for the next round of stories on America's battle with the bulge.
    • There is no doubt that this chronological telling, which is scrupulously accurate in its lengthy citations of Luther's writings, provides abundant grist for anti - Protestant polemics.
    • But the apparent paradoxes generate great grist for mystery mongers.
    • Documents just made public may provide grist for his opponents.
    • Their failure provides grist for conservative educational ideologues to victim-bash and propagate the phony notion of chronic black educational incompetence.
    • The primary thrust has been to provide greater grist for litigation, rather than tackling the hard work of defining acceptable conduct.
    • If the adversaries can't agree on a ‘fair’ plea, one side holds out until the other blinks, or they duke it out in trial, where relevant facts are the grist for a good defense.
    • With the biblical passages you've given me (especially that one from Luke 22), you've given my mind enough grist to turn over for the next couple of weeks.

Phrases

  • grist for the mill

    • Useful experience, material, or knowledge.

      Example sentencesExamples
      • But what is needed first is intellectual grist to the mill - serious ideas discussed by good minds, widely debated, offering the public something to get its teeth into.
      • There's no such thing as a bad experience, it's all just grist to the mill.
      • Gun control, crime statistics, global warming and passive smoking are grist to his mill.
      • It all adds grist to the mill of those who claim that unless trained police officers are in charge, corners will always be cut by firms with one eye on the profit margin.
      • He is a great talker, a charming and incurable optimist, and everything is grist to his mill.
      • If you can think of any more good ones, then please let me know; it will all be grist to my mill.
      • The shape of the market is going to change but this will be more grist to our mill.
      • But it will fall back to a level of immobility and indecisiveness that can only add grist to the mill of the neoliberals.
      • James Joyce valued the everyday, but only if it could be grist to the mill of his highly formal art.
      • The inevitable violence of their response was grist to his mill.

Origin

Old English ‘grinding’, of Germanic origin; related to grind.

 
 
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