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.
To cover with grit.
Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger.
Determination; will power.
A determination to do something; a fixed decision.
It took all my resolve to go through with the surgery.
An act of resolving something; resolution.
To make a firm decision to do something.
To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle.
To find a solution to (a problem).
To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.
To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance.
To render visible or distinguishable the parts of something.
To find the IP address of a hostname, or the entity referred to by a symbol in source code; to look up.
To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain.
To come to an agreement or make peace; patch up relationship, settle differences, bury the hatchet.
To melt; to dissolve; to liquefy or soften (a solid).
To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate; to return to a simpler constitution or a primeval state.
To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid.
To separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers.