Question 1 · Quick check
grit
CEFRC1
/ɡɹɪt/
noun
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In plain English
- 01
noun
Small rough pieces of sand or stone.
- 02
noun
Courage and determination to continue.
Examples
My university can't afford to grit its car parks.
The council refuses to grit my road.
At a glance
Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 1
- Citations
- 5
Deep Dive
noun
Extra meaningsSmall, hard, inedible particles in food.
A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
Sand or a sand–salt mixture spread on wet and, especially, icy roads and footpaths to improve traction.
More examples
In contextI need a sheet of 100 grit sandpaper.
The flower beds were white with grit from sand blasting the flagstone walkways.
These cookies seem to have grit from nutshells in them.
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Origin
noun
With early modern vowel shortening, from Middle English grete, griet, from Old English grēot, from Proto-West Germanic *greut, from Proto-Germanic *greutą. Compare grist.