See grinding on Wiktionary
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"manufacturing",
"manufacturing#Noun"
],
[
"grind",
"grind#Verb"
],
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"workpiece",
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"surface finish",
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"(manufacturing, repair) The action of grinding a workpiece to change its size, shape, and surface finish."
],
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],
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"business",
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]
},
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],
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{
"text": "No grinding is allowed on the dance floor at the junior prom: it isn't age-appropriate.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A form of dance in which two people rub their bodies together."
],
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"(dance) A form of dance in which two people rub their bodies together."
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"Repeatedly performing the same quest or similar in-game activity in order to amass points or wealth."
],
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"(roleplaying games, gaming) Repeatedly performing the same quest or similar in-game activity in order to amass points or wealth."
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"categories": [
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{
"text": "A: Hey Bob, how's it goin? B: Meh, I'm tired of grinding, man.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The act of doing the daily grind."
],
"links": [
[
"business",
"business"
],
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"daily grind",
"daily grind"
]
],
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"(business, informal) The act of doing the daily grind."
],
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}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈɡɹaɪndɪŋ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-aɪndɪŋ"
}
],
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "The action of grinding or crushing into small particles",
"word": "jauhaminen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "The action of grinding or crushing into small particles",
"word": "murskaaminen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "The action of grinding or crushing into small particles",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "broyage"
},
{
"code": "kix",
"lang": "Khiamniungan Naga",
"sense": "The action of grinding or crushing into small particles",
"word": "thāmthàu"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "The action of grinding or crushing into small particles",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "molienda"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "Repeating the same action in a videogame for experience",
"word": "afã"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Repeating the same action in a videogame for experience",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "trabajo pesado"
}
],
"word": "grinding"
}
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"word": "grindingly"
}
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"text": "The meeting came to a grinding halt when the two sides could not agree.",
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"Of or pertaining to the act or gratingly sound of grinding."
],
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"text": "A week of filled with grinding toil.",
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},
{
"ref": "1983 April 16, John Kyper, “Cuba: A Little Sex, No Drugs, and Lotsa Rock 'n Roll”, in Gay Community News, page 8:",
"text": "I saw none of the grinding poverty to which I had become inured, no beggars, no one passed out in the streets or homeless people forced to camp out in parks and doorways.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"Relentlessly taxing; burdensome; exacting to the point of exhaustion."
],
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"taxing",
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"burdensome",
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"not-comparable"
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"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses"
],
"glosses": [
"Crushing; oppressive; overwhelming."
],
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[
"Crushing",
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[
"oppressive",
"oppressive"
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[
"overwhelming",
"overwhelming"
]
],
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"(obsolete) Crushing; oppressive; overwhelming."
],
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"not-comparable",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈɡɹaɪndɪŋ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-aɪndɪŋ"
}
],
"word": "grinding"
}
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