grind (noun)

  • 81campus legend — noun a) A widely circulated apocryphal or untrue story pertaining to people, events, or places on the campus of an educational institution, often having elements of humour or horror. The story that the library is sinking because the architect… …

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  • 82standstill — noun complete immobility; halt The wreck brought traffic to a standstill for hours. Syn: deadlock, grind, halt, idle, impasse …

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  • 83skateboard rail — noun A training device used for practicing skateboarding tricks, such as a grind or a board slide. His new skateboard rail is about 10 long, 4 wide and 8 off the ground …

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  • 84roll mill — noun a series of rollers, operating at different speeds, used to grind paint etc or to mill flour …

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  • 85inkstone — noun A stone used by Chinese artists and calligraphers to grind dry ink and then to mix it with water …

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  • 86fettler — noun a) A person who maintains railway lines. Hows tha doing fettler? b) Someone whose job is to sand and grind small imperfections from metal and ceramic castings …

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  • 87philippic — noun /fɪˈlɪpɪk/ a) any of the discourses of against , defending the liberty of Athens , 1922: Skin the Goat, assuming he was he, evidently with an axe to grind, was airing his grievances in a forcible feeble philippic anent the natural resources… …

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  • 88standstill — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ complete, dead, total ▪ near, virtual VERB + STANDSTILL ▪ come to, grind to …

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  • 89grinding — grind|ing [ˈgraındıŋ] adj [only before noun] 1.) very difficult and unpleasant, and never seeming to improve ▪ a country devastated by civil war and grinding poverty 2.) a grinding noise is the continuous unpleasant noise of machinery parts… …

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  • 90grinder — grind|er [ graındər ] noun count a machine that cuts food into very small pieces, especially coffee, meat, or pepper …

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