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# grind

«grind» in Mova's school dictionary: **To crush something into tiny pieces or powder, like…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (grind, grinds, ground, grinding); noun (the grind)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To crush something into tiny pieces or powder, like grinding wheat into flour or coffee beans. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grind/#m1)

2) To make something sharp or smooth by rubbing it on a hard surface. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grind/#m2)

3) To rub things together hard and noisily: «grind your teeth». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grind/#m3)

4) (noun, informal) Hard, boring work that goes on and on: «the daily grind». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grind/#m4)

5) «grind to a halt» means slowly stop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grind/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In history and science, mills ground grain into flour; teeth grind food. In health, grinding your teeth at night can harm them. In everyday talk, «back to the grind» means back to work. Phrases: «grind to a halt», «grind your teeth», «the daily grind».

### examples

- The mill grinds wheat into flour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grind/#x1)
- Pepper is ground in a pepper mill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grind/#x2)
- Some people grind their teeth in their sleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grind/#x3)
- The traffic ground to a halt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grind/#x4)
- Our back teeth grind our food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grind/#x5)
- He ground the knife on a stone to sharpen it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grind/#x6)
- After the holidays, it's back to the grind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grind/#x7)
- And the Goblin put the tongue on the coffee-mill, and how it began to grind! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grind/#x8)

### note

Irregular past: grind – ground – ground. «Ground» is also a noun (the earth under your feet) — two different words. Don't confuse «grind» with «grin» (smile).

### In the corpora

- [Ostriches swallow pebbles, which collect in the gizzard and grind tough food, because birds have no teeth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/151-ostriches-and-heads-in-the-sand/12/)
- [Duck-billed dinosaurs, or hadrosaurs, such as Edmontosaurus had hundreds of teeth packed together to grind plants.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/267-horns-frills-plates-and-clubs/12/)
- [Wheat is a tall grass whose seeds, the grains, are ground into flour.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/1/)
- [Windmills and watermills once ground grain between big stones; today most flour is made in huge roller mills.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/8/)
- [A grown-up set has 8 incisors for cutting, 4 canines for gripping, 8 premolars and 12 molars for grinding.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/351-teeth-baby-teeth-grown-up-teeth-and-wobbly-teeth/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «grind» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grind/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.