Grit

Grit or Grits 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 (Martyn Bennett album)
  • Grit (Madrugada album)
  • Grit (grain), an almost extinct word for bran, chaff, mill-dust or coarse oatmeal
  • Hominy grits, a corn-based food common in the Southern United States
  • GRITS, a Christian hip-hop group
  • Grits (novel) by Niall Griffiths
  • Grit size, measurement of abrasives used in sandpaper and other polishing materials
  • Clear Grits, political reformers in the Province of Upper Canada
  • Grits, colloquial term for the Liberal Party of Canada
  • Grit (personality trait)
  • Grit, a 1915 silent film starring William S. Hart
  • Grit (TV network), an American digital multicast television network
  • 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
  • Transformers (toy line)

    The Transformers (トランスフォーマー Toransufomā) is a line of toys produced by the Japanese company Takara (now known as Takara Tomy) and American toy company Hasbro. The Transformers toyline was created from toy molds mostly produced by Japanese company Takara in the toylines Diaclone and Microman. Other toy molds from other companies such as Bandai were used as well. In 1984, Hasbro bought the distribution rights to the molds and rebranded them as the Transformers for distribution in North America. Hasbro would go on to buy the entire toy line from Takara, giving them sole ownership of the Transformers toy-line, branding rights, and copyrights, while in exchange, Takara was given the rights to produce the toys and the rights to distribute them in the Japanese market. The premise behind the Transformers toyline is that an individual toy's parts can be shifted about to change it from a vehicle, a device, or an animal, to a robot action figure and back again. The taglines "More Than Meets The Eye" and "Robots In Disguise" reflect this ability.

    Grit (grain)

    Grit (going back to Old English grytt or grytta or gryttes) is an almost extinct word for bran, chaff, mill-dust also for oats that have been husked but not ground, or that have been only coarsely ground—coarse oatmeal. The word continues to exist in modern dishes like grits, a Native American corn-based food common in the Southern United States, consisting of coarsely ground corn; and the German red grits, Rote Grütze, a traditional pudding made of summer berries and starch and sugar. Grit here was the cheap supplier of starch.

    Gruels of grit, oatmeal grit preferably, were standard European nutrition of the lower classes in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period.

    See also

  • List of porridges
  • References

    External links

  • OED on word usage, restricted access
  • Podcasts:

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