Definition of "grit" in Anglais

Noun

1. A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.

   • The flower beds were white with grit from sand blasting the flagstone walkways.

2. Sand or a sand–salt mixture spread on wet and, especially, icy roads and footpaths to improve traction.

3. Small, hard, inedible particles in food.

   • These cookies seem to have grit from nutshells in them.

4. A measure of the size of abrasive grains, such as those on sandpaper, and thus their relative coarseness or fineness; the smaller the number, the coarser the abrasive: thus, 60 is rough, 600 is fine, and 3000 is ultrafine.

   • I need a sheet of 100 grit sandpaper.

5. A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit.

6. Strength of mind; courage or fearlessness; fortitude.

   • That kid with the cast on his arm has the grit to play dodgeball.

Verb

1. To clench (one's teeth), particularly in reaction to pain or anger.

   • We had no choice but to grit our teeth and get on with it.
   • He has a sleeping disorder and grits his teeth.
   • My teeth gritted as I heard the news.

2. To cover with grit.

3. To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.

Noun

1. Husked but unground oats.

2. Coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge.

   • grits and eggs