What is "grit"

Grit \Grit\, n. [OE, greet, greot, sand, gravel, AS. gre['o]t grit, sant, dust; akin to OS griott, OFries. gret gravel, OHG. grioz, G. griess, Icel. grj[=o]t, and to E. groats, grout. See Groats, Grout, and cf. Grail gravel.]

1. Sand or gravel; rough, hard particles.

2. The coarse part of meal.

3. pl. Grain, esp. oats or wheat, hulled and coarsely ground; in high milling, fragments of cracked wheat smaller than groats.

4. (Geol.) A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; as, millstone grit; -- called also gritrock and gritstone. The name is also applied to a finer sharp-grained sandstone; as, grindstone grit.

5. Structure, as adapted to grind or sharpen; as, a hone of good grit.

6. Firmness of mind; invincible spirit; unyielding courage; fortitude.
   --C. Reade.
   --E. P. Whipple.

Grit \Grit\ (gr[i^]t), v. i. To give forth a grating sound, as sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.

The sanded floor that grits beneath the tread.
--Goldsmith.

Grit \Grit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gritted; p. pr. & vb. n. Gritting.] To grind; to rub harshly together; to grate; as, to grit the teeth. [Collog.]

Old English greot "sand, dust, earth, gravel," from Proto-Germanic *greutan "tiny particles of crushed rock" (cognates: Old Saxon griot, Old Frisian gret, Old Norse grjot "rock, stone," German Grieß "grit, sand"), from PIE *ghreu- "rub, grind" (cognates: Lithuanian grudas "corn, kernel," Old Church Slavonic gruda "clod"). Sense of "pluck, spirit" first recorded American English, 1808.

"make a grating sound," 1762, probably from grit (n.). Related: Gritted; gritting.

Etymology 1 n. 1 collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, swarf from metalworking. 2 Inedible particles in food. 3 strength of mind; great courage or fearlessness; fortitude. vb. 1 To clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger; apparently only appears in ''gritting one's teeth''. 2 To cover with '''grit'''. 3 To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind. Etymology 2

n. 1 (context usually in plural English) husk but unground oat 2 (context usually in plural English) coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge

1. v. cover with a grit; "grit roads"

2. clench together; "grit one's teeth"

3. [also: gritting, gritted]

1. n. a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone [syn: gritrock, gritstone]

2. fortitude and determination; "he didn't have the guts to try it" [syn: backbone, guts, moxie, sand, gumption]

3. [also: gritting, gritted]

Grit or Grits may refer to:

Grit is a magazine, formerly a weekly newspaper, popular in the rural US during much of the 20th century. It carried the subtitle "America's Greatest Family Newspaper". In the early 1930s, it targeted small town and rural families with 14 pages plus a fiction supplement. By 1932, it had a circulation of 425,000 in 48 states, and 83% of its circulation was in towns of fewer than 10,000 population.

Grit is the last studio album by the Scottish Celtic fusion artist Martyn Bennett. It was released on 13 October 2003 on the Real World label.

The song "Blackbird" was used in the soundtrack for Danny MacAskill's 2014 film, The Ridge.

Grit is the third album by Norwegian band Madrugada. The album saw the band once again taking a vastly different approach to their previous release featuring a much rawer and at times more experimental sound with Krautrock and garage rock influences taking precedence. The album also featured one of the band's most well known songs in the softly atmospheric ballad "Majesty.

Grit (going back to Old English grytt or grytta or gryttes) is an almost extinct word for bran, chaff, mill-dust also for oats that have been husked but not ground, or that have been only coarsely ground—coarse oatmeal. The word continues to exist in modern dishes like grits, a Native American corn-based food common in the Southern United States, consisting of coarsely ground corn; and the German red grits, Rote Grütze, a traditional pudding made of summer berries and starch and sugar. Grit here was the cheap supplier of starch.

Gruels of grit, oatmeal grit preferably, were standard European nutrition of the lower classes in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period.

Grit in psychology is a positive, non-cognitive trait based on an individual's passion for a particular long-term goal or end state, coupled with a powerful motivation to achieve their respective objective. This perseverance of effort promotes the overcoming of obstacles or challenges that lie within a gritty individual's path to accomplishment, and serves as a driving force in achievement realization. Commonly associated concepts within the field of psychology include "perseverance", " hardiness", " resilience", "ambition", " need for achievement" and " conscientiousness". These constructs can be conceptualized as individual differences related to the accomplishment of work rather than latent ability. This distinction was brought into focus in 1907 when William James challenged the field to further investigate how certain individuals are capable of accessing richer trait reservoirs enabling them to accomplish more than the average person, but the construct dates back at least to Galton, and the ideals of persistence and tenacity have been understood as a virtue at least since Aristotle. Although the last decade has seen a noticeable increase in research focused on achievement-oriented traits, strong effects of Grit on important outcomes such as terminal school grades have not been found.

Grit is an American digital multicast television network that is owned by Katz Broadcasting. The network features classic TV series and feature films targeted at men between the ages of 25 and 54 years old.

The network is available in many media markets via the digital subchannels of broadcast television stations and on the digital tiers of select cable providers through a local affiliate of the network.

Originally, Katz sold the network to affiliated TV stations via ad split but by October 2015 had moved to a carriage fees in exchange for the network get the ad inventory due to greater inventory with stations adding a third or fourth subchannel. Grit used direct response advertising as a meter of viewers before switching to Nielsen rating C-3.