grit
Because it is a word with a single syllable, grit is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofgrit
- A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
Example: "The flower beds were white with grit from sand blasting the flagstone walkways."
- Inedible particles in food.
Example: "These cookies seem to have grit from nutshells in them."
- A measure of the relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper, the smaller the number the coarser the abrasive.
Example: "I need a sheet of 100 grit sandpaper."
- A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit.
- Strength of mind; great courage or fearlessness; fortitude.
Example: "That kid with the cast on his arm has the grit to play dodgeball."
- Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger.
Example: "He has a sleeping disorder and grits his teeth."
- To cover with grit.
- To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.
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