Grit

Grit may refer to:

  • GRIT (gene), also known as Arhgap32 or PX-RICS
  • Grit (newspaper), a U.S. periodical founded as a newspaper in 1882
  • Grit (album), by Celtic fusion musician Martyn Bennett
  • Grit (album), by Norwegian rock band Madrugada
  • Grit (grain), bran, chaff, mill-dust (meanings that have gone obsolete) also coarse oatmeal.
  • Grits, a corn-based food common in the Southern United States
  • GRITS, a Christian hip-hop group
  • Grit size, measurement of abrasives used in sandpaper and other polishing materials
  • Grit bin, used to hold rock salt
  • The Grit, vegetarian restaurant in Athens, Georgia, US
  • Clear Grits, political reformers in the Province of Upper Canada
  • Grits, colloquial term for the Liberal Party of Canada
  • Grit, Ruby library for object oriented read/write access to Git repositories.
  • Grit (personality trait)

Grit may also be:

  • Gritstone, a sedimentary rock composed of coarse sand grains and small stones
  • Gastrolith, abrasive substances eaten by some animals to aid in digestion
  • Shell grit, source of calcium for birds
  • Grit, a character from the video game Advance Wars
  • Grit Šadeiko (born 1989), Estonian heptathlete
  • In Grinding (abrasive cutting), a cutting material, or the classification of such a material by size.
  • Grit, a 1915 silent film starring William S. Hart

Famous quotes containing the word grit:

    “A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One wry principle in the mind is of infinite consequence.”
    —Thomas Traherne (1636–1674)

    “The world is eaten up by boredom.... You can’t see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you breathe it in, you eat and drink it. It is sifted so fine, it doesn’t even grit on your teeth. But stand still for an instant and there it is, coating your face and hands. To shake off this drizzle of ashes you must be for ever on the go. And so people are always “on the go.””
    —Georges Bernanos (1888–1948)

    “Politics is, as it were, the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its two opposite halves,—sometimes split into quarters, it may be, which grind on each other.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)