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Look up: grit

  1. Grit
    In relation to pesticide formulations, hard non-friable particles present in a material.
    Found on http://www.pestmanagement.co.uk/lib/glos

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. Grit
    A commonly used term for Washed Concrete Sand or Sharp Sand.
    Found on http://rugby.cemex.co.uk/crossproductpag

  5. 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 to English groats , grout . See Groats , Grout , and confer Grail gravel.] 1. Sand or gravel; rough, ha ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/59

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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; called also gritrock and gritstone. The name is also appli ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  9. grit
    verb clench together; `grit one`s teeth`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  10. Grit
    `Grit` can refer to: * The mesh or unit of measure for sandpaper and other polishing materials *Grit (geology), a clastic sediment composed of hard, often abrasive granules of a size range between sand and pebbles, typically from exfoliation of bedrock ** Gritstone, a sedimentary rock formed by diagenesis of grit *Grits, a corn-based food common in the Southern United States and Southern Manchuria **GRITS (derived from the above meaning) is an A...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grit

  11. 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 mind; invincible spirit; unyielding courage; fortitud...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  12. 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

  13. grit
    1. a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone
    2. (informal) fortitude and determination

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  14. 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 were described as 240 grit. However, very fine abrasi...
    Found on http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictG.


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