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UK
/ɡɹˈaɪndɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈɡɹaɪndɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɹaɪndɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
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material resulting from the process of grinding
vegetable grindings clogged the drain - the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice
- a harsh and strident sound (as of the grinding of gears)
How To Use grinding In A Sentence
- They butchered the film, hacking and splicing it, grinding their heels into Sergio's soul.
- It was an old-fashioned mill for grinding linseed, expressing the oil, and making oil-cake.
- But for all its glories, Victorian was also a time of grinding hard work, belching mill chimneys and the sort of poverty scarcely imaginable today.
- His wrist gave an ugly grinding sound and searing pain tore through him like knives.
- Grinding of the teeth and clenching of the jaws during sleep, otherwise known as bruxism, is a common condition for adults who want to release tension. Article Ace
- The gentle woo-woo spirituality of New Age is attractive because it refuses the grinding realities of life spent in the shadow of Wall Street and Hollywood and Silicon Valley.
- Meanwhile airport bosses have recruited an army of private security workers to prevent the airport from grinding to a halt.
- The formed principle and CNC grinding machining method for polygonal profile are studied.
- Most of these molecules are generated during the grinding and malaxation, when active enzymes from the damaged fruit cells come into contact with vulnerable polyunsaturated fatty acids in the green chloroplasts. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
- We stopped at a little hut, where we saw an old woman grinding with the quern, the ancient Highland instrument, which it is said was used by the Romans, but which, being very slow in its operation, is almost entirely gone into disuse. Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides