decision vs grit

decision

noun
  • Firmness of conviction. 

  • A result arrived at by the judges when there is no clear winner at the end of the contest. 

  • A choice or judgement. 

  • A win or a loss awarded to a pitcher. 

  • The act of deciding. 

verb
  • To defeat an opponent by a decision of the judges, rather than by a knockout 

grit

noun
  • Strength of mind; great courage or fearlessness; fortitude. 

  • A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit. 

  • A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking. 

  • Coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge. 

  • Inedible particles in food. 

  • Husked but unground oats. 

  • A measure of the relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper, the smaller the number the coarser the abrasive. 

  • Sand or a sand–salt mixture spread on wet and, especially, icy roads and footpaths to improve traction. 

verb
  • To cover with grit. 

  • Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger. 

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