[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

grind \grind\, v. t. imp.  p. p. ground; p. pr.  vb. n.
   grinding. as. grindan; perh. akin to l. frendere to
   gnash, grind. cf. grist.
   1. to reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the
      teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the
      action of millstones.
      1913 webster

            take the millstones, and grind meal.  --is. xivii.
                                                  2.
      1913 webster

   2. to wear down, polish, or sharpen, by friction; to make
      smooth, sharp, or pointed; to whet, as a knife or drill;
      to rub against one another, as teeth, etc.
      1913 webster

   3. to oppress by severe exactions; to harass.
      1913 webster

            to grind the subject or defraud the prince.
                                                  --dryden.
      1913 webster

   4. to study hard for examination; -- commonly used with away;
      as, to grind away at one's studies. college slang
      1913 webster
see also:
ground grinding grist 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

grind \grind\, v. i.
   1. to perform the operation of grinding something; to turn
      the millstones.
      1913 webster

            send thee
            into the common prison, there to grind. --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. to become ground or pulverized by friction; as, this corn
      grinds well.
      1913 webster

   3. to become polished or sharpened by friction; as, glass
      grinds smooth; steel grinds to a sharp edge.
      1913 webster

   4. to move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
      1913 webster

   5. to perform hard and distasteful service; to drudge; to
      study hard, as for an examination. --farrar.
      1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

grind \grind\, n.
   1. the act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by
      friction.
      1913 webster

   2. any severe continuous work or occupation; esp., hard and
      uninteresting study. colloq. --t. hughes.
      1913 webster

   3. a student that studies hard; a dig; a wonk. college
      slang
      1913 webster +pjc

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

grind
     n 1: an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected
          or studying excessively syn: swot, nerd, wonk, dweeb
     2: hard monotonous routine work syn: drudgery, plodding, donkeywork
     3: the act of grinding to a powder or dust syn: mill, pulverization,
         pulverisation
     v 1: press or grind with a crunching noise syn: crunch, cranch,
           craunch
     2: make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together; "grate
        one's teeth in anger" syn: grate
     3: reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading;
        "grind the spices in a mortar"; "mash the garlic" syn: mash,
         crunch, bray, comminute
     4: work hard; "she was digging away at her math homework";
        "lexicographers drudge all day long" syn: labor, labour,
         toil, fag, travail, drudge, dig, moil
     5: 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
     also: ground
see also:
swot nerd wonk dweeb drudgery plodding 
donkeywork mill pulverization pulverisation crunch 
cranch craunch grate mash bray 
comminute labor labour toil fag 
travail drudge dig moil ground 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

367 moby thesaurus words for "grind":
   ablate, abrade, abrase, aculeate, acuminate, afflict, agonize, ail,
   application, atomize, badger, barb, bark, beast of burden, beat,
   beat down, beaten path, belch, bibliolater, bibliolatrist,
   bibliomane, bibliomaniac, bibliophage, bibliophile, bibliophilist,
   bite, blare, blat, bone, boning, booklover, bookworm, brainwork,
   bray, break, break into pieces, break to pieces, break up,
   brecciate, browbeat, bulldoze, bully, bureaucracy, bureaucratism,
   burn, burr, buzz, cackle, castrate, caw, chafe, champ, chaw, chew,
   chew the cud, chew up, chinoiserie, chirr, chomp, chore, churn out,
   clamp down on, clang, clangor, clank, clash, coerce, comminute,
   compel, con, conning, contemplate, contemplation, contriturate,
   convulse, cow, cram, cramming, crash, craunch, croak, crucify,
   crumb, crumble, crump, crunch, crush, cuspidate, cut,
   cut to pieces, daily grind, daunt, demolish, despotize, diffuse,
   dig, dirty work, disintegrate, disperse, disrupt, distress,
   domineer, domineer over, donkeywork, drill, drudge, drudgery, edge,
   elucubrate, emery, employment, engrossment, enslave, erase, erode,
   examine, excruciate, exercise, exertion, extensive study, fag,
   failing student, fatigue, fester, file, fission, flour, fragment,
   fray, frazzle, fret, gall, galley slave, generate, give pain,
   gnash, gnaw, gnaw away, go over, grain, granulate, granulize,
   grate, graze, greasy grind, grind down, grind to powder, grinding,
   gripe, grit, groan, groove, growl, grub, grumble, gum, hack,
   hammer, hammer away, handiwork, handwork, harass, harrow, harry,
   headwork, hector, henpeck, hone, hound, hurt, ill-treat, industry,
   inflame, inflict pain, inspection, intimidate, irritate, jangle,
   jar, jog trot, keep down, keep under, kill by inches, labor,
   lacerate, levigate, lick, lick of work, lord it over, lucubrate,
   lucubration, make mincemeat of, maltreat, manual labor, martyr,
   martyrize, mash, masticate, mental labor, mill, mince, moil, mouth,
   muck, mugger, mumble, munch, nibble, nip, oilstone, oppress,
   overachiever, overawe, overbear, overmaster, override, pace, pain,
   peg, peg away, persecute, perusal, peruse, pestle, philobiblist,
   pierce, pinch, plague, plod, plodder, plug, plug along, plug away,
   plugging, plunge into, point, polish, pore over, pound, pound away,
   powder, practice, press heavy on, prick, produce,
   prolong the agony, pulverize, pumice, put to torture, rack, rankle,
   rasp, rat race, raze, read, reading, red tape, red-tapeism,
   reduce to powder, regard studiously, repress, reset, restudy,
   restudying, review, ride over, ride roughshod over, rote, round,
   routine, rub, rub away, rub off, rub out, ruminate, run, rut, sand,
   sandblast, sandpaper, scatter, scour, scranch, scrape, scratch,
   scrub, scrunch, scuff, scut work, set, shard, sharpen, shatter,
   shiver, shred, skin, slave, slavery, slog, slogger, smash,
   smash up, smooth, snarl, snore, spadework, spiculate, splinter,
   spur, squash, squirrel cage, squish, stab, sting, strap, stroke,
   stroke of work, strop, study, studying, subdue, subject, subjugate,
   suppress, sweat, swot, swotter, swotting, taper, task, terrorize,
   tiresome work, toil, torment, torture, track, trample down,
   trample upon, travail, tread down, tread upon, treadmill,
   triturate, turn out, twang, tweak, twist, tyrannize,
   tyrannize over, underachiever, unman, vet, wade through,
   walk all over, walk over, wear, wear away, wear down,
   weigh heavy on, well-worn groove, whet, wide reading, work,
   work away, workhorse, wound, wring

[6] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

grind vt. 1. mit and berkeley; now rare to prettify hardcopy of code,
   especially lisp code, by reindenting lines, printing keywords and
   comments in distinct fonts if available, etc. this usage was
   associated with the maclisp community and is now rare; prettyprint was
   and is the generic term for such operations. 2. unix to generate the
   formatted version of a document from the nroff, troff, tex,
   or scribe source. 3. common to run seemingly interminably, esp. but
   not necessarily if performing some tedious and inherently useless task.
   similar to crunch or grovel. grinding has a connotation of using a
   lot of cpu time, but it is possible to grind a disk, network, etc. see
   also hog. 4. to make the whole system slow. "troff really grinds a
   pdp-11." 5. `grind grind' excl. roughly, "isn't the machine slow today"


see also:
prettyprint nroff troff tex crunch grovel 
hog 

[7] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

grind
     
        graphical interpretive display.
     
        a graphics input language for the pdp-9.
     
        "grind: a language and translator for computer graphics",
        a.p. conn, dartmouth, june 1969.
     
        jargon file
     
        1995-01-31
     
     
see also:
pdp-9 jargon file 

[8] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

grind
     
        1. mit and berkeley to prettify hardcopy of code, especially
        lisp code, by reindenting lines, printing keywords and
        comments in distinct fonts if available, etc.  this usage
        was associated with the maclisp community and is now rare;
        prettyprint was and is the generic term for such operations.
     
        2. unix to generate the formatted version of a document from
        the nroff, troff, tex, or scribe source.
     
        3. to run seemingly interminably, especially but not
        necessarily if performing some tedious and inherently useless
        task.  similar to crunch or grovel.  grinding has a
        connotation of using a lot of cpu time, but it is possible to
        grind a disk, network, etc.
     
        see also hog.
     
        4. to make the whole system slow.  "troff really grinds a
        pdp-11."
     
        5. "grind grind" excl. roughly, "isn't the machine slow
        today"
     
        jargon file
     
        1994-12-16
     
     
see also:
prettyprint nroff troff tex crunch grovel 
hog jargon file 

[9] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

grind
   ex. 32:20; deut. 9:21; judg. 16:21, to crush small heb.
   tahan; to oppress the poor isa. 3:5. the hand-mill was early
   used by the hebrews num. 11:8. it consisted of two stones, the
   upper deut. 24:6; 2 sam. 11:21 being movable and slightly
   concave, the lower being stationary. the grinders mentioned
   eccl. 12:3 are the teeth. see mill.
   
see also:
mill 

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