From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
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
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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.
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Take the millstones, and grind meal. --Is. xivii.
2.
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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.
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3. To oppress by severe exactions; to harass.
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To grind the subject or defraud the prince.
--Dryden.
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4. To study hard for examination; -- commonly used with away;
as, to grind away at one's studies. [College Slang]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Grind \Grind\, v. i.
1. To perform the operation of grinding something; to turn
the millstones.
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Send thee
Into the common prison, there to grind. --Milton.
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2. To become ground or pulverized by friction; as, this corn
grinds well.
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3. To become polished or sharpened by friction; as, glass
grinds smooth; steel grinds to a sharp edge.
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4. To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
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5. To perform hard and distasteful service; to drudge; to
study hard, as for an examination. --Farrar.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Grind \Grind\, n.
1. The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by
friction.
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2. Any severe continuous work or occupation; esp., hard and
uninteresting study. [Colloq.] --T. Hughes.
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3. A student that studies hard; a dig; a wonk. [College
Slang]
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 Sep 2003) [foldoc]:
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)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 Sep 2003) [foldoc]:
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)
From Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) [jargon]:
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
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!"