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grind

1. verb, informal To engage in some activity with great intensity, devotion, or dedication. Everyone else has been grinding for their exams this week, so there hasn't been much to do. Our team has been grinding away at this project for months. If we don't grind on this marketing campaign, we're liable to lose the company as a client.
2. verb, slang To rotate one's hips and pelvis in an erotic or suggestive manner, especially while dancing. Some guy came up and started grinding against me on the dance floor. Check out these two grinding on the dance floor! Ugh, I feel dirty just watching them. Look, buddy, I'm here to dance with my girlfriends and have a good time. If you want to grind on someone, pick another girl, huh?
3. noun, informal A tedious or laborious routine, especially of work or study. I'm lucky to have a job in today's economy, but this daily grind is starting to get me down. I'm so thrilled to be off next week—I really need a break from the daily grind. Thank goodness tomorrow is Saturday—the daily grind really wore me down this week.
4. noun, slang A student who studies or works to an excessive amount or degree. Primarily heard in US. Come on, Tom, don't be such a grind. It's Saturday night—come have some fun for a change! I don't care if other people think I'm a grind—my goal is to become valedictorian, so I need work hard! What's the point in being a grind? It's not like you have to have a 4.0 GPA to go to college.
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grind

in. to sell drugs. He told the cops he wasn’t grinding, but they found his junk.
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But now we have an additional problem in that if a coffee is ground to a particular monomodal espresso grind, 250 pm for example, it will not brew successfully.
* Coffee beans stay fresher longer than ground coffee, so consider a grinder that allows you to measure and grind only what you need at one time.
This new version of the machine was able to successfully grind a wide variety of band materials and tooth pitches, including variable tooth patterns.
High-quality burr grinders offer precision grinding from extra coarse to extra fine, and may as 17 different specific grind settings from which to choose.
With the new grinder, we can program it for either a convex or concave surface, as well as for a flat grind."
With the combined operation machine, one operator can tend four machines to grind both the flute and the clearances.
Hughes -- Dress the grinding wheel before the final grind. Grind all knives at the final setting.
This is achieved by constantly measuring the ground coffee as it exits the grinder, rather than waiting for the operator to randomly check the grind. Not only does the Intelligent Granulizer measure the grind size and density, but it also immediately reacts, intelligently, to maintain the desired grind size, as necessary.
(RPEI), Peru, Ind., has used to grind various materials have changed over the years.
"From a horticulture perspective you don't want a super fine fiber, instead a standard double mulch grind ...
Third, learn how to grind so there will be no danger of damaging the wheel.
Figure 1 is a summary of these values developed for various type grinds.
To better understand this concept, it should be noted that "grinding" is a misnomer and the process properly described is more of a "fracturing/cracking" of the coffee bean between rotating surfaces, at which point an "explosion" occurs and the resultant particle granulation produces a particle distribution or grind. When coffee beans of reduced friability are introduced into the grinder, such as those still hot from the roaster, they will fracture (grind) less and a larger grind will result.
As Mike Selimi, mill leader at form Grinding, observes, "Most machine shops and die/mold operations don't like to deal with carbide because it is so tough to grind or work with.
Ambient grind Using effective types of mechanical grinding techniques, like serrated grinders, recyclers grind various types of scrap and used rubber articles.
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