From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
grind
n 1: an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected
or boringly studious [syn: swot, grind, nerd, wonk,
dweeb]
2: the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is
ground; "a coarse grind of coffee"
3: hard monotonous routine work [syn: drudgery, plodding,
grind, donkeywork]
4: the act of grinding to a powder or dust [syn: grind,
mill, pulverization, pulverisation]
v 1: press or grind with a crushing noise [syn: crunch,
cranch, craunch, grind]
2: make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together; "grate
one's teeth in anger" [syn: grate, grind]
3: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework";
"Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: labor, labour,
toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil]
4: dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way,
often while in contact with one's partner such that the
dancers' legs are interlaced
5: reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading;
"grind the spices in a mortar"; "mash the garlic" [syn:
grind, mash, crunch, bray, comminute]
6: created by grinding; "grind designs into the glass bowl"
7: shape or form by grinding; "grind lenses for glasses and
cameras"