grind(ing)

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• grind´ing|ly — grind|ing «GRYN dihng», adjective. 1. grating or strident, as sounds. 2. burdensome or oppressive, as toil. 3. excruciating or racking: »grinding pain. –grind´ing|ly, adverb …   Useful english dictionary

• grind|ing — «GRYN dihng», adjective. 1. grating or strident, as sounds. 2. burdensome or oppressive, as toil. 3. excruciating or racking: »grinding pain. –grind´ing|ly, adverb …   Useful english dictionary

• ax-grind|ing — «AKS GRYN dihng», noun. = axe grinding. (Cf. ↑axe grinding) …   Useful english dictionary

• axe-grind|ing — «AKS GRYN dihng», noun. Slang. the action or behavior of an axe grinder …   Useful english dictionary

• grind — grīnd vt, ground grau̇nd; grind·ing 1) to reduce to powder or small fragments by friction (as with the teeth) 2) to press together and move with a rotating or back and forth motion see BRUXISM …   Medical dictionary

• grind — [[t]graɪnd[/t]] v. ground, grind•ing, n. 1) to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens[/ex] 2) to reduce to fine particles, as by pounding or crushing; pulverize 3) to oppress, torment, or crush: ground by… …   From formal English to slang

• re|grind — «ree GRYND», transitive verb, ground, grind|ing. to grind again …   Useful english dictionary

• grinding — 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… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• grinding — grind|ing [ graındıŋ ] adjective 1. ) extreme: used for emphasizing how bad a situation is: grinding poverty 2. ) making a sound of one hard thing moving against another: a grinding noise a grinding halt a situation in which something stops… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• grinding wheel — grind′ing wheel n. bui a wheel composed of abrasive material, used for grinding …   From formal English to slang

• Inventions in medieval Islam — A significant number of inventions were developed in the medieval Islamic world, a geopolitical region that has at various times extended from Al Andalus and Africa in the west to the Indian subcontinent and Malay Archipelago in the east.… …   Wikipedia