grind-v; 8 Senses

Sense Number 1: press together with a rotating motion, emiting a grating sound

Commentary:
NOTE: Must involve production of a sound related to the grinding motion.

Examples:
He ground his teeth at night whenever he was worried about something.
When I put the thing in reverse, the gears were grinding.

Mappings:
VerbNet: crane-40.3.2
FrameNet: Body_movement
PropBank: grind.03
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 2

Sense Number 2: reduce to small pieces by pounding or abrading

Commentary:
NOTE: Includes metaphorical uses.

Examples:
I like to grind my coffee fresh each morning.
This mill is easy to use and can grind the nutmeg finely.
I had to grind away part of the side of the oil pan to get my fitting to turn.
Then they ground out the tree stumps.
He ground the cigar with the heel of his boot.
His dreams were ground into the dust by society's laws.

Mappings:
VerbNet: carve-21.2-1
FrameNet: Grinding
PropBank: grind.01,grind.02
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 5

Sense Number 3: toil, esp. at studying

Commentary: Includes: GRIND AWAY

Examples:
But we knew we had to grind away in our first innings and get a lead.
He ground away the days in the hospital and classroom, the nights studying.
She ground away with a stubborn conscientiousness at mathematics.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: grind.05
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 3
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
grind_away 1

Sense Number 4: dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way

Examples:
This club night is essentially a great excuse for teens to bump and grind on the dance floor.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 4

Sense Number 5: form, polish or create through wearing away with friction

Commentary:
NOTE: Includes metaphorical uses.

Examples:
The surf ground and polished the crystals and deposited them on the shore.
She ground the lens for the telescope herself.
The dentist ground down some of the fillings.
Abraham Lincoln once said that if he had six hours to chop down a tree, he'd spend the first four hours grinding the axe.

Mappings:
VerbNet: build-26.1
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 6, 7

Sense Number 6: oppress; wear down

Commentary: Is: GRIND DOWN

Examples:
He spoke of how Williams had treated them like imbeciles, how he ground down their spirit.
He ground down the monks with taxes heavier than those which were extorted from the Jews themselves.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
grind_down 1

Sense Number 7: produce in a routine and monotonous manner

Commentary: Is: GRIND OUT

Examples:
They ground out the first 80 pages in a single 36-hour session.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
grind_out 1

Sense Number 8: GRIND TO A HALT: be unable to move further

Examples:
Central London traffic ground to a halt during Wednesday morning's rush hour.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: grind.04
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
grind_to_a_halt 1