Ghit vs Grit - What's the difference?
ghit | grit |
A hit obtained using the search engine Google.
* 2004 , 3 February, Trevor, kalebeul'', post
* 2004 , 9 February, Mark Liberman, Language Log'', post
*:: I am having 1,500 cards printed with "ghit = google hit © 2004 followthebaldie.com" and am going to flog them down the Ramblas this lunchtime. I am unsure as to whether this constitutes a business plan.
* 2004 , 8 August, Mark Liberman, Language Log'', post
* 2004 , 22 October, TEFL Smiler, post
*2005 , 9 May, Derek Thornton,
Collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, swarf from metalworking.
Inedible particles in food.
Firmness of mind; invincible spirit; unyielding courage or fearlessness; fortitude.
A measure of relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper.
(geology) A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, to a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g. grindstone grit .
To clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger; apparently only appears in gritting one's teeth .
To cover with grit .
To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.
* Goldsmith
(usually in plural) husked]] but unground [[oat, oats
(usually in plural) coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge
As nouns the difference between ghit and grit
is that ghit is a hit obtained using the search engine google while grit is (canada|politics) a member or supporter of the liberal party of canada or one of its provincial wings (except for the quebec provincial wing).As an adjective grit is
(canada|politics) of or belonging to the liberal party of canada.ghit
English
Noun
(en noun)''Shame:
- Igry (
1]/[http://www.languagehat.com/archives/001111.php 2]/[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000401.html 3
) – a (research-driven?) neologism expressing a voyeuristic, laissez-faire sense of shame – already gets slightly more ghits (ca 200 to 175, once you’ve sifted out the Russians) than its Catalan equivalent, vergonya aliena'', although it’s still way behind ''plaatsvervangende schaamte'' and ''vergüenza ajena'' (not to mention ''verguenza ajena ).
''Igry and ghits:
- For me, though, the most important thing in his post is the neologism ghits'. Now there's a word that fills a need! I don't know if this is Trevor's coinage, but it seems to be pretty new: "'''ghits'''" has 2380 ' ghits , at the moment, but all the 50 or so that I checked were programming language variable names, words in languages other than English, alternative spellings of "gits", or jokes like "ghits and siggles". Anyhow, I'm in Trevor's debt for the tip, and if he's the author, he deserves immortal renown.
- …
- Update: it seems that Trevor is the responsible party. He's
posted
that
''Superfluity and Uselessness:
- “Fifth wheel” is a common expression for superfluity, common in frames like “feel like a fifth wheel” (538 ghits ), but it's not so commonly used in the frame “ADJ as a ___”.
Searching Sue de Nimes:
- I'm quite baffled, in fact, that there are so few ghits' (Google hits) for this search, as the idea seems so obvious. Even if you spell it without the final 's', you end up with only one extra ' ghit .
forum post (broken link):
- "In the meantime, I am working on the specification for a Word-Add-on ("Ghit'-it?"®). It scans keyboard input continuously, Google-searches the Internet in the background for each term, phrase, or expression and generates an error message if its '''ghit'''-value is below a preset threshold, or optionally replaces the term or expression with the nearest equivalent having the highest ' ghit count.
grit
English
Etymology 1
With early modern vowel shortening, from (etyl) grete, griet, from (etyl) ‘lump’).Noun
(-)- The flower beds were white with grit from sand blasting the flagstone walkways.
- It tastes like grit from nutshells in these cookies.
- That kid with the cast on his arm has the grit to play dodgeball.
- I need a sheet of 100 grit sandpaper.
Derived terms
* *See also
* debris * mortar and pestle * swarfVerb
- We had no choice but to grit our teeth and get on with it.
- He has a sleeping disorder and grits his teeth.
- The sanded floor that grits beneath the tread.