Found 3 items, similar to grind.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: grind menggerus, menggiling, menggosok
English → English (WordNet) Definition: grind 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] [also: ground] grind 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 [also: ground]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Grind Grind \Grind\, v. i. 1. To perform the operation of grinding something; to turn the millstones. [1913 Webster] Send thee Into the common prison, there to grind. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. To become ground or pulverized by friction; as, this corn grinds well. [1913 Webster] 3. To become polished or sharpened by friction; as, glass grinds smooth; steel grinds to a sharp edge. [1913 Webster] 4. To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate. [1913 Webster] 5. To perform hard and distasteful service; to drudge; to study hard, as for an examination. --Farrar. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Take the millstones, and grind meal. --Is. xivii. 2. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 3. To oppress by severe exactions; to harass. [1913 Webster] To grind the subject or defraud the prince. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 4. To study hard for examination; -- commonly used with away; as, to grind away at one's studies. [College Slang] [1913 Webster] Grind \Grind\, n. 1. The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction. [1913 Webster] 2. Any severe continuous work or occupation; esp., hard and uninteresting study. [Colloq.] --T. Hughes. [1913 Webster] 3. A student that studies hard; a dig; a wonk. [College Slang] [1913 Webster +PJC]