Grind on

Definition

grind / graÇnd / v ( pt , pp ground /graƱnd /) ၁။ (က) ~ sth (down/ up) (to/ into sth) ႀကိတ္ေျခသည္။ ႀကိတ္သည္။ ႀကိတ္ဝါးသည္။ grind coffee beans/ corn/ pepper ❍ The elephant grinds (up) its food with/ between its powerful teeth. ❍ grind sth to dust/ to a fine powder. (ခ) ~ sth (from sth) ႀကိတ္သည္။ grind flour (from corn). ၂။ (esp US ) ႀကိတ္သည္။ ground beef. ၃။ ~ sth (on/ with sth) ေသြးသည္။ grind a knife/ lens. ၄။ ~ sth (together); ~ sth in/ into sth (သြား) ႀကိတ္သည္။ ဖိႀကိတ္သည္။ He grinds his teeth when he's asleep. ❍ Dirt had become ground into the surface of the table. စားပြဲမ်က္ႏွာျပင္တြင္ ဖုန္မႈန္႔မ်ား နစ္ဝင္ေနသည္။ ❍ grind one's heel into the fragments (ie crush them very hard) ❍ grind stones together. ၅။ ~ (away) ပြတ္သံ၊ ႀကိတ္သံျမည္သည္။ grinding brakes ❍ The old engine ground and shuddered. ❍ machines grinding away in the factory. ၆။ (လက္ျဖင့္လွည့္၍) ႀကိတ္သည္။ grind a coffee-mill. n [sing] ၁။ ( infml ) ပ်င္းမုန္းၿငီးေငြ႕ဖြယ္ အလုပ္။ the daily grind of office work ❍ a long uphill grind in a cycle race ❍ Marking examination papers is a real grind. ၂။ ႀကိတ္ျခင္း။ ❏ bring sth to a grinding halt [ IDM ] အရိွန္ ေသၿပီး တျဖည္းျဖည္း လံုးဝတန္႔သြားသည္။ The strike brought industry to a grinding halt. ❏ grind away (at sth) [ PHRV ] အပတ္တကုတ္ ႀကိဳးပမ္း သည္။ He's been grinding away at that essay for hours. ❏ grind sb down [ PHRV ] ဖိႏိွပ္သည္။ ဖိစီးႏိွပ္စက္သည္။ people ground down by poverty/ taxation/ tyranny. ❏ grinding adj ႐ုန္းမထြက္ႏိုင္ေသာ။ grinding poverty. ❏ grind on [ PHRV ] (ပ်င္းရိဖြယ္ၿငီးေငြ႕ဖြယ္ ေကာင္းေအာင္ ဆက္လက္) ျပဳမူသည္။ The speaker ground on, oblivious of his listeners' boredom. ပရိသတ္က စိတ္မပါသည္ကို ဂ႐ုမထားဘဲ ဆက္လက္ ေလရွည္ေနသည္။ ❏ grind sth out [ PHRV ] ( derog ) (ပ်င္းရိၿငီးေငြ႕ဖြယ္ ေကာင္းေသာအရာကို ဆက္တိုက္) ထုတ္သည္။ The jukebox ground out an incessant stream of pop music. ❍ He grinds out cheap romantic stories at the rate of one a week. ❏ grind to a halt/ standstill; come to a grinding halt [ IDM ] တျဖည္းျဖည္းႏွင့္ လံုးဝ တန္႔သြားသည္။ The traffic ground to a halt. ❍ There is so much traffic that the city is grinding to a halt.

Examples

1. The mill was used for grinding corn until the 17th century.
2. Freshly ground black pepper
3. She ground a half-smoked cigarette into the ashtray.
4. A truck came grinding up the hill.
5. The sound of grinding gears