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| VERB | to grind | ground | ground / [archaic] grounden grinding | grinds | |
| SYNO | donkeywork | drudgery | dweeb | ... |
Usage Examples English
- A varnish oil medium was used as vehicle to grind his powdered pigments into paint and then used to help apply thin layers of paint which he could easily blend.
- Grinding wheels and polishing agents are used to grind, shape and polish the smooth dome shape of the stones.
- At one stage, during the General Strike of 1926, the salvage operation was about to grind to a halt due to a lack of coal to feed the many boilers for the water pumps and generators.
- In archaeology, a grinding slab is a ground stone artifact generally used to grind plant materials into usable size, though some slabs were used to shape other ground stone artifacts.
- In 1812 the nearby Mill Creek was used to power mills to grind grain into flour.
- Molen Berg, built in 1854 at the Grintweg, was designed to grind corn.
- Newly appointed coach Phil Walsh oversaw a rapidly improving team that became known for their skilled ball use and ability to grind out wins.
- A water mill to grind corn was mentioned in the "Domesday Book".
- He also taught humanity how to grind grain. He was also sometimes identified as the husband of Danaë, and therefore the father of Danaus and the ancestor of Turnus.
- British gritstone was used for millstones to mill flour, to grind wood into pulp for paper and for grindstones to sharpen blades.
- Cider presses often have attachments to grind the apples prior to pressing. Such combination devices are commonly referred to as cider mills.
- Some of Murdoch's other minor inventions and experiments were: a machine developed in 1784 or 1785 in Cornwall for drilling wooden pipes, (in 1810 this was further developed and patented for stone pipes), a steam cannon which he attempted to use in 1803 to knock down a wall at Soho, a steam gun in the same year which fired 3 cm lead bullets, and machinery to grind and compress peat moss under great pressure to produce a material with "the appearance of the finest Jet".
- Natural ultramarine is the most difficult pigment to grind by hand, and for all except the highest quality of mineral, sheer grinding and washing produces only a pale grayish blue powder.
- It was first built to pump water, and subsequently modified to grind grain as well.
- Perkin-Elmer intended to use custom-built and extremely sophisticated computer-controlled polishing machines to grind the mirror to the required shape.
- Mark Potok of Southern Poverty Law Center responded that Wilcox "had an ax to grind for a great many years" and engaged in name calling against others doing anti-racist work.
- For ground spices, to grind a whole spice, the classic tool is mortar and pestle.
- The aardvark's stomach has a muscular pyloric area that acts as a gizzard to grind swallowed food up, thereby rendering chewing unnecessary.
- Costa Rican chacmools gripped sculpted bowls; these chacmools also served ceremonial purposes although the bowl was used to grind foodstuffs.
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