Grinding: Playing out points with a series of shots from the baseline. Hitting and running down tennis balls with 100% of your being. Refusing to miss for however long it takes to win a point.

 

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Grinding: Playing out points with a series of shots from the baseline. Hitting and running down tennis balls with 100% of your being. Refusing to miss for however long it takes to win a point.

Surface Grinding: The process of grinding flat surfaces on a surface grinding machine. With special setups, angular and form surfaces may also be ground.

Truing: The act of centering or aligning a workpiece or cutting tool so that an operation may be performed accurately. Also, correcting the eccentricity or out of round condition when dressing a gri . . . View Full Definition

Center Gage: A small, flat gage having 60º angles that is used for grinding and setting the thread cutting tools in a lathe. It may also be used to check the pitch of threads and the points of center.

Wheel Dresser: A tool or device for dressing or truing a grinding wheel.

Molars: The broad, multicusped back teeth, used for grinding food are considered the largest teeth in the mouth. In adults there are a total of twelve molars (including the four wisdom teeth, or thi . . . View Full Definition

Triple Rhyme: A trisyllabic rhyme involving three separate syllables to create the rhyme in each word. For instance, grinding cares is a triple rhyme with winding stairs. Fearfully is a triple rhyme with . . . View Full Definition

Milling: Mechanical removal of the dry parchment skin from wet-processed coffee beans, or the entire dried fruit husk from dry-processed beans.

Dressing: The lane conditioner; the act of applying lane conditioner.

Emery: A natural abrasive used for grinding or polishing. It is being largely replaced by artificial abrasives.