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  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
    [newspaper] Grit is a magazine, formerly a weekly newspaper, popular in the rural US 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 plus a fiction supplement. By 1932, i...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grit_(newsp

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

  5. 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

  6. 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

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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

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

  13. 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

  14. 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

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

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  16. 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.

  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 instruments. ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grit_(album

  18. Grit
    [grain] Grit (going back to Old English grytt or grytta or gryttes) is an almost extinct word for bran, chaff, mill-dust also for oats that have been husked but not ground, or that have been only coarsely ground—coarse oatmeal. The word continues to exist in modern dishes like grits, a Nat...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grit_(grain

  19. 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 obstacles...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grit_(perso



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27 May 2012

This day in history: The Queen Mary made her maiden voyage, on the Southampton-Cherbourg-New York route, on 27 May 1936. The passenger accommodation emphasised the first two classes, cabin and tourist. The propulsion machinery of the ship produced a massive 160,000 SHP and gave it a speed of over 30 knots. Despite expectations that the ship would try to break speed records on its first voyage a thick fog destroyed any hope of this. The Queen Mary spent a short time in drydock during July whilst adjustments were made to the propellers and turbines. When the ship returned to service, in August, it made a record voyage from Bishop's Rock to Ambrose light and took the Blue Riband from the Normandie. read more

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