NOUN
  • Definition - A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
  • Example - The flower beds were white with grit from sand blasting the flagstone walkways.
  • Definition - Inedible particles in food.
  • Example - These cookies seem to have grit from nutshells in them.
  • Definition - A measure of the relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper, the smaller the number the coarser the abrasive.
  • Example - I need a sheet of 100 grit sandpaper.
  • Definition - A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit.
  • Example - I need a sheet of 100 grit sandpaper.
  • Definition - Strength of mind; great courage or fearlessness; fortitude.
  • Example - That kid with the cast on his arm has the grit to play dodgeball.
VERB
  • Definition - Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger.
  • Example - He has a sleeping disorder and grits his teeth.
  • Definition - To cover with grit.
  • Example - He has a sleeping disorder and grits his teeth.
  • Definition - To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.
  • Example - He has a sleeping disorder and grits his teeth.
Words in your word
4 Letter Words
girt 5 grit 5 trig 5
3 Letter Words
git 4 rig 4
2 Letter Words
gi 3 it 2 ti 2
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