If you like to grind your own coffee beans, it means you prefer to buy whole beans, put them in an electric grinder, and pulverize them into tiny bits before you brew your coffee.
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.
Noun
the act of grinding to a powder or dust
Noun
hard monotonous routine work
Noun
an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or studying excessively
Verb
reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading; "grind the spices in a mortar"; "mash the garlic"
Verb
make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together; "grate one''s teeth in anger"
Verb
press or grind with a crunching noise
Verb
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
Verb
work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
v. t.
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.
v. t.
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.
v. t.
To oppress by severe exactions; to harass.
v. t.
To study hard for examination.
v. i.
To perform the operation of grinding something; to turn
the millstones.
v. i.
To become ground or pulverized by friction; as, this corn
grinds well.
v. i.
To become polished or sharpened by friction; as, glass
grinds smooth; steel grinds to a sharp edge.
v. i.
To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
v. i.
To perform hard aud distasteful service; to drudge; to
study hard, as for an examination.
n.
The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by
friction.
n.
Any severe continuous work or occupation; esp., hard and
uninteresting study.
n.
A hard student; a dig.
Grind
Take the millstones, and grind meal.2.
To grind the subject or defraud the prince.4.
Grind
Send thee Into the common prison, there to grind.2.
Grind
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.
To perform the operation of grinding something; to turn the millstones.
The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
Usage Examples
As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.
I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.
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Other Usage ExamplesIt was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.
All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
On tour, I'll get up at 5 p.m. and go to bed at 8 in the morning. With fishing, it's the exact opposite. Fishing is the only healthy thing I do. Touring is such a grind it's the opposite of healthy.
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