grind

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When SO's down, all the programmers grind to a halt.

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Quick take

an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious

Meaning at a glance

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noun

an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious

noun

the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground; "a coarse grind of coffee"

noun

hard monotonous routine work

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for grind.

noun

an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious

noun

the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground; "a coarse grind of coffee"

noun

hard monotonous routine work

See also: drudgery, plodding, donkeywork

noun

the act of grinding to a powder or dust

See also: mill, pulverization, pulverisation

verb

press or grind with a crushing noise

verb

make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together; "grate one's teeth in anger"

verb

work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"

See also: labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, drudge, dig, moil

verb

dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced

verb

reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading; "grind the spices in a mortar"; "mash the garlic"

verb

created by grinding; "grind designs into the glass bowl"

verb

shape or form by grinding; "grind lenses for glasses and cameras"

Example sentences

When SO's down, all the programmers grind to a halt.

It was high risk but I didn't have time to grind it out at lower stakes.

I was able to go out and explore the world after being caught up in the daily grind for years.

But if they don't send buses, why, traffic would be so bad that 280 and 101 would grind to a halt, and clearly that's the tech companies' fault.

Shipping it was a terrible, brutal grind that I hope to never experience again.

The author seems to have particular ax to grind against tenured faculty.

I know quite a few people who majored in CS, were able to grind through it to get their degree, but can't stand the thought of doing this for a career.

Given that, I don't understand how people with an axe to grind against the "gender is cultural" idea would like society to look.

How is any of that computer science?I mean, is there a list out there for astronomy students that includes, grind your own lenses?

"Genewatch" on the other hand, sounds like they have an axe to grind - they certainly lost credibility with me based on the comments I read.

And we certainly weren't thinking at all about a story of 7 years of grind, improvements, and putting one foot in front of the other every day.

Vince Lombardi said it best:"And in truth, I've never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline.

Lots of people with little to no exceptional talent or skill thinking that they if they just grind it out long enough they'll strike it rich with their mediocre business idea.

This combination allows full experimentation into the effects of grind size and extraction time on coffee flavor.

I'm sure there are plenty of GitHub employees who have a strong opinion, but enough of them seem to have an ax to grind in one way or another that it's hard to trust that testimony.

With heavy machinery doing 95% of work in modern mines, and having worked in one, I can tell you that the constant grind of producing code is much harder than sitting in haul truck or laying explosives.