Nerve vs Grit - What's the difference?
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(zoology) A bundle of neurons with their connective tissue sheaths, blood vessels and lymphatics.
(nonstandard, colloquial) A neuron.
(botany) A vein in a leaf; a grain in wood
Courage, boldness.
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Patience. (rfexample)
Stamina, endurance, fortitude.
* Milton
Audacity, gall.
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(in the plural) Agitation caused by fear, stress or other negative emotion.
(obsolete) Sinew, tendon.
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To give courage; sometimes with "up".
To give strength
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 nerve and grit
is that nerve is a bundle of neurons with their connective tissue sheaths, blood vessels and lymphatics while grit is collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, swarf from metalworking.As verbs the difference between nerve and grit
is that nerve is to give courage; sometimes with "up".grit is to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger; apparently only appears in gritting one's teeth.As an adjective Grit is
of or belonging to the Liberal Party of Canada.nerve
English
Noun
(en noun)- The nerves can be seen through the skin.''
- ''Some plants have ornamental value because of their contrasting nerves
- He hasn't the nerve to tell her he likes her, what a wimp!
- A trip to the whistling, fire-cracking Stadio San Paolo is always a test of nerve but Wenger's men have already outplayed the Italians once.
- He led me on to mightiest deeds, / Above the nerve of mortal arm.
- He had the nerve to enter my house uninvited.
- Ellie had a bad case of nerves before the big test.
- Come on; obey: / Thy nerves are in their infancy again, / And have no vigour in them.
- (Alexander Pope)
Synonyms
; Audacity, gall : brashness, brazenness, big ballsHyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* bundle of nerves * get on somebody's nerves/get on one's nerves * nervation * nerveless * nervy * nerve cell * nerve center * nerve ending * nerve fiber * nerve gas * nerve impulse * nerve-racking * nerves of steel * nerve-wracking * nervi-, nervo- * touch a nerve * unnerved * war of nervesVerb
(nerv)- ''May their example nerve us to face the enemy.
- ''The liquor nerved up several of the men after their icy march.
Anagrams
* ----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.