🇬🇧 en it 🇮🇹

grit noun

  /ɡɹɪt/
  • 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.
 grana
  • (idiomatic) Strength of mind; courage or fearlessness; fortitude.
 grinta
  • A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
 sabbia

grit noun

  /ɡɹɪt/
  • (usually, in the plural) Husked but unground oats.
 avena mondata

grits noun

  /ɡɹɪts/
  • (Western Hemisphere) Coarsely ground hominy which is boiled and eaten, primarily in the Southern United States.
 porridge di mais
Wiktionary Links