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grind

4 3.5

How small the pieces of coffee or spice are after crushing

noun
/ɡraɪnd/

: molienda

You should store your coffee grinds or beans in an airtight dark container.
regular grind

Examples

The coffee shop offers a dark roast with a fine grind that enhances the flavor.
Bill turned back to the coffee grinds.

Fiction book (1995)
...which comes in three delicious grinds.

There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)
With the French press, I've started doing a cold steep, letting the coffee grinds steep with room temperature water overnight.

Blog text (9)
The mill makes special grinds for Eataly NYC and Café La Perche in Hudson.

Blog text (18)
For the best flavor, choose a course of grind when making fresh pepper.
The recipe calls for a medium grind of nuts to blend well into the cake batter.

Antonyms

coarse

26 3.7

A surface like sand or rough cloth that has large grains and is not smooth

chunky

17 3.5

Thick and full of small pieces, like peanut butter

Compounds

daily grind

Informal

4 4.2

A boring, tiring routine of everyday work and chores

grind organ

Archaic

9.9

A small music machine you turn by hand to play tunes from a cylinder with pegs

Surface Forms

grind singular

grinds plural

Etymology

Grind also means how fine something is ground, like the size of coffee or spice particles. So choosing a 'fine' or 'coarse' grind is choosing the degree of powder after crushing.