Grit vs Gratitude - What's the difference?
grit | gratitude |
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
The state of being grateful.
As nouns the difference between grit and gratitude
is that 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) while gratitude is the state of being grateful.As an adjective grit
is (canada|politics) of or belonging to the liberal party of canada.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.
