How to pronounce “grit”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
• Small, hard, inedible particles in food.
• 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.
• (geology) A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit.
• (idiomatic) Strength of mind; courage or fearlessness; fortitude.
• [Verb]
• (transitive, ergative) To clench (one's teeth), particularly in reaction to pain or anger.
• To cover with grit.
• (obsolete, intransitive) To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.

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