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# grit

«grit» in Mova's school dictionary: **Tiny hard bits of stone or sand** — 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

noun (grit — uncountable); verb (grit, grits, gritted, gritting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Tiny hard bits of stone or sand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grit/#m1)

2) Courage and determination to keep going when things are hard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grit/#m2)

3) To spread grit or salt on icy roads so they are less slippery (UK: gritting). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grit/#m3)

4) Grit your teeth: to press your teeth together, or to bravely put up with something hard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grit/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In school «grit» is talked about as a good quality: not giving up, practising, bouncing back after mistakes (like a growth mindset). In science, grit and sand make up soil and are used in filters. In winter safety, roads and paths are gritted so people don't slip. In stories a gritty hero keeps going. Phrases: grit your teeth, show grit, true grit, grit lorry (UK), gritty.

### examples

- I got a bit of grit in my eye at the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grit/#x1)
- It takes grit to keep practising when it's hard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grit/#x2)
- She gritted her teeth and finished the race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grit/#x3)
- The council gritted the roads before the snow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grit/#x4)
- Rinse the grit off the vegetables. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grit/#x5)
- Sandpaper has fine grit on one side. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grit/#x6)
- With grit and hard work, he learned to swim. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grit/#x7)
- Feel where she would, there was nothing but grit and stones, when, suddenly, her fingers touched something soft in a crevice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grit/#x8)

### note

«Grit» is uncountable: some grit, a bit of grit. Past: gritted. «Grits» (plural) in the southern USA is a porridge made from ground corn.

### In the corpora

- [Salt from sea spray or from gritted winter roads makes iron rust faster, so cars and railings by the sea rust quickly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/13-rust-irons-slow-fire/12/)
- [Iron rusts only when it has both oxygen and water; salt from sea spray or gritted roads makes it rust faster.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/37-olympiad-everyday-chemistry-detectives/6/)
- [Grit or sand sprinkled on an icy path gives shoes more grip.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/10-reasoning-about-the-moving-body/15/)
- [Sand and grit in the eye can scratch it, which hurts and can need a doctor.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music/21/)
- [Rinsing a graze under clean running water washes out grit; stinging antiseptic is not needed for most grazes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/4-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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