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grit noun

  /ɡɹɪt/
  • A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
 Schotter, Grieß, Schrot, Splitt, Streu, Streugut
  • Small, hard, inedible particles in food.
 Ballaststoff, Grieß, Schrot
  • A measure of the size of abrasive grains, such as those on sandpaper, and thus their relative coarseness or fineness; the smaller the number, the coarser the abrasive: thus, 60 is rough, 600 is fine, and 3000 is ultrafine.
 Korn, Körnung
  • (idiomatic) Strength of mind; courage or fearlessness; fortitude.
 Mut, Schneid

grit verb

  /ɡɹɪt/
  • Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger.
 knarren, knirschen

grits noun

  /ɡɹɪts/
  • (Western Hemisphere) Coarsely ground hominy which is boiled and eaten, primarily in the Southern United States.
 Maisgrieß, Polenta

grit noun

  /ɡɹɪt/
  • (usually, in the plural) Husked but unground oats.
 Hafergraupen
grit one's teeth
die Zähne zusammenbeißen, in den sauren Apfel beißen
grit chamber
Sandfang

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Grit noun {m}

Grit, Grite   /ɡʁɪt/
  • Geologie: grober Sand
 grit
  • Geologie: Sandstein, der aus groben, scharfkantigen Körnern zusammengesetzt ist und sich für Mühlsteine eignet
 grit, gritstone
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