grind

grind

1. verb, informal To engage in some activity with great intensity, devotion, or dedication. Everyone else has been grinding for their exams this week, so there hasn't been much to do. Our team has been grinding away at this project for months.
2. verb, slang To rotate one's hips and pelvis in an erotic or suggestive manner, especially while dancing. Some guy came up and started grinding against me on the dance floor.
3. noun, informal A tedious or laborious routine, especially of work or study. I'm lucky to have a job in today's economy, but this daily grind is starting to get me down.
4. noun, slang A student who studies or works to an excessive amount or degree. Primarily heard in US. Come on, Tom, don't be such a grind. It's Saturday night—come have some fun for a change!
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

grind

in. to sell drugs. He told the cops he wasn’t grinding, but they found his junk.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • a mill cannot grind with water that is past
  • an ax(e) to grind
  • ax to grind
  • ax to grind, an
  • axe to grind
  • bump and grind
  • come to a grinding/screeching halt
  • daily grind
  • grind
  • grind (one's) teeth
  • grind (someone's) gears
  • grind (something) into (something)
  • grind (something) to (something)
  • grind away
  • grind away at (someone or something)
  • grind down
  • grind into
  • grind it out
  • grind on
  • grind out
  • grind to
  • grind to a halt
  • grind to a halt, to
  • grind to a halt/standstill
  • grind together
  • grind up
  • grind your teeth
  • have an ax to grind
  • have an ax(e) to grind
  • have an axe to grind
  • mill cannot grind with water that is past
  • mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small
  • mills of the gods grind slowly
  • mills of the gods grind slowly(, but they grind exceedingly fine)
  • mills of the gods grind slowly, the
  • no ax(e) to grind
  • the mills of God grind slowly(, but they grind exceedingly fine)
References in periodicals archive
But now we have an additional problem in that if a coffee is ground to a particular monomodal espresso grind, 250 pm for example, it will not brew successfully.
Espresso: the toughest grind to properly achieve
* Coffee beans stay fresher longer than ground coffee, so consider a grinder that allows you to measure and grind only what you need at one time.
Coffee grinders
This new version of the machine was able to successfully grind a wide variety of band materials and tooth pitches, including variable tooth patterns.
Battle over blades: breaking the barriers to grinding band saw blades. (Technologynotebook)
High-quality burr grinders offer precision grinding from extra coarse to extra fine, and may as 17 different specific grind settings from which to choose.
Coffee grinders
With the new grinder, we can program it for either a convex or concave surface, as well as for a flat grind."
Reciprocating power grinder reduces finishing time at Kovatch Castings. (Product Innovations)
With the combined operation machine, one operator can tend four machines to grind both the flute and the clearances.
Where the savings are: by applying a combination of planning and foresight, combined operation grinders can offer major benefits. (Grinding)
Hughes -- Dress the grinding wheel before the final grind. Grind all knives at the final setting.
Don't grind your teeth over dull or chipped cutters
This is achieved by constantly measuring the ground coffee as it exits the grinder, rather than waiting for the operator to randomly check the grind. Not only does the Intelligent Granulizer measure the grind size and density, but it also immediately reacts, intelligently, to maintain the desired grind size, as necessary.
Intelligent grinding technologies for the 21st century: as many coffee experts agree, the perfect cup of coffee requires the perfectly grinded batch of beans, Daniel Ephraim, president of Modern Process Equipment Corporation, discusses the new innovations and advances in grinding coffee
(RPEI), Peru, Ind., has used to grind various materials have changed over the years.
A new road: RPEI of Peru, Ind., takes a different path to C&D recycling success
"From a horticulture perspective you don't want a super fine fiber, instead a standard double mulch grind ...
A colorful market: colored wood mulch is providing a sustained market for many wood recyclers. (C&D Series)
Third, learn how to grind so there will be no danger of damaging the wheel.
Safe practices improve precision grinding results
Figure 1 is a summary of these values developed for various type grinds.
Development and application of superfine tire powders for rubber compounding
To better understand this concept, it should be noted that "grinding" is a misnomer and the process properly described is more of a "fracturing/cracking" of the coffee bean between rotating surfaces, at which point an "explosion" occurs and the resultant particle granulation produces a particle distribution or grind. When coffee beans of reduced friability are introduced into the grinder, such as those still hot from the roaster, they will fracture (grind) less and a larger grind will result.
Coffee grinding issues and answers
As Mike Selimi, mill leader at form Grinding, observes, "Most machine shops and die/mold operations don't like to deal with carbide because it is so tough to grind or work with.
Better dies via electricity. (WIP)
Ambient grind Using effective types of mechanical grinding techniques, like serrated grinders, recyclers grind various types of scrap and used rubber articles.
Recycling, production and use of reprocessed rubbers