| 单词 | grind |
| 释义 | grind (once / 454 pages) 1vn 2nv 3v 4n 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. WORD FAMILYgrind: grinded, grinder, grinding, grinds+/grinder: grinders/grinding: grindings USAGE EXAMPLESDuring short breaks they pose for selfies in balaclavas, keepsakes from their week away from the daily grind. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) It’s an endless grind, but she gets it. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) Roughly chop the cashews and roughly grind or crush the cumin and coriander. Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1 1v reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading grind the spices in a mortar Syn|Hypo|Hyper bray, comminute, crunch, mash pulp reduce to pulp pestlegrind, mash or pulverize in a mortar millgrind with a mill break up, fragment, fragmentise, fragmentize break or cause to break into pieces 2v press or grind with a crushing noise Syn|Hyper cranch, craunch, crunch press exert pressure or force to or upon 3v created by grinding grind designs into the glass bowl Hyper create, make make or cause to be or to become 4v shape or form by grinding grind lenses for glasses and cameras Hyper forge, form, mold, mould, shape, work make something, usually for a specific function 5v make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together Syn|Hypo|Hyper grate gnash grind together, of teeth chew, jaw, manducate, masticatechew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth champ, chompchew noisily champchafe at the bit, like horses gum, mumblegrind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty chawchew without swallowing crunch, munchchew noisily gnawbite or chew on with the teeth break up, fragment, fragmentise, fragmentize break or cause to break into pieces 6n the act of grinding to a powder or dust Syn|Hyper mill, pulverisation, pulverization compaction, crunch, crush the act of crushing 7n the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground 2a coarse grind of coffee Hyper degree, grade, level a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality 1n hard monotonous routine work Syn|Hyper donkeywork, drudgery, plodding labor, labour, toil productive work (especially physical work done for wages) 2v work hard 3Syn|Hyper dig, drudge, fag, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail do work, work be employed 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 4Hyper dance, trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance n an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious Syn|Hyper dweeb, nerd, swot, wonk assimilator, learner, scholar someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs |
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