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Look up: grit

  1. Grit
    Grit is slang for courage, integrity and determination.
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  2. Grit
    Grit is slang for courage, integrity and determination.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  3. Grit
    In relation to pesticide formulations, hard non-friable particles present in a material.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contrib

  4. grit
    [n] - a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone 2. [v] - cover with a grit 3. [v] - clench together
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  5. grit
    particles which have become detached from a grindstone Category: Various industries and crafts • horizontal members from column to column to carry wall sheath Category: Building industry
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  6. Grit
    A commonly used term for Washed Concrete Sand or Sharp Sand.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contrib

  7. Grit
    Grit noun [ OE, greet , greot , sand, gravel, Anglo-Saxon greót grit, sant, dust; akin to OS griott , OFries. gret gravel, Old High German grioz , German griess , Icelandic grjōt , and t...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/59

  8. Grit
    Grit (grĭt) intransitive verb To give forth a grating sound, as sand under the feet; to grate; to grind. « The sanded floor that grits beneath the tread.» Goldsmith.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/59

  9. Grit
    Grit transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Gritted ; present participle &, verbal noun Gritting .] To grind; to rub harshly together; to grate; as, to grit the teeth. [ Collog.]
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/60

  10. grit
    1. Sand or gravel; rough, hard particles. ... 2. The coarse part of meal. ... 3. Grain, especially. Oats or wheat, hulled and coarsely ground; in high milling, fragments of cracked wheat smaller than groats. ... 4. <geology> A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; as, millstone grit; calle...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  11. grit
    verb clench together; `grit one`s teeth`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  12. Grit
    • (v. i.) To give forth a grating sound, as sand under the feet; to grate; to grind. • (n.) Sand or gravel; rough, hard particles. • (n.) Grain, esp. oats or wheat, hulled and coarsely ground; in high milling, fragments of cracked wheat smaller than groats. • (n.) Firmness of min...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  13. grit
    sedimentary rock that consists of angular sand-sized grains and small pebbles. The term is roughly equivalent to the term sandstone (q.v.).
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/g/72

  14. grit
    • a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone
    • (informal) fortitude and determination

    Found on

  15. grit
    a measure of fineness for abrasive materials such as sandpaper, sanding belts, or the finer materials used to polish optical surfaces. Originally the grit number was the number of holes in a standard screen; if the screen had, say, 240 holes, then the particles that would pass through the screen wer...
    Found on http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictG.

  16. Grit
    (newspaper) `Grit` is a magazine, formerly a weekly newspaper, popular in rural areas throughout the United States during much of the 20th century. It carried the subtitle `America`s Greatest Family Newspaper`. In the early 1930s, it targeted small town and rural families with 14 pages...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grit

  17. Grit
    (album) `Grit` is the last studio album by Scottish celtic fusion artist Martyn Bennett. It was released October 13, 2003 on the Real World label. The song was a marked departure from his previous albums in that Martyn`s was reliant on using samples as he was too weak to play his instr...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grit

  18. Grit
    (personality trait) `Grit` in psychology is a positive, non-cognitive trait, based on an individual’s passion for a particular long-term goal or endstate coupled with a powerful motivation to achieve their respective objective. This perseverance of effort promotes the overcoming of obs...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grit



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11 February 2012

This day in history:
On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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