Grinding is a manufacturing process that uses friction with a rough surface to wear away or smooth the surface of a work piece. See also crusher for a description of mechanisms used for grinding materials into a powder.
Grinding is a form of preparing food for eating, or for use in other forms of cooking. For example, bread and pasta rely on grinding of the flour, the production of tahini ( sesame seed paste) involves grinding of the seeds, ground almonds are an important ingredient in many dishes.
Grinding is an unsophisticated modern dancing style which involves two or more partners rubbing their bodies on one another in a sexual manner, a type of public frotteurism. It is often performed in nightclubs that play pop, urban, and danceDance music is music composed, played, or both, specifically for social dancing. In principle, dance music includes a huge variety of music, from waltzes to rock and roll and country music or tangos. As of the late 1970s, however--particularly for people music. The most common techniques are:
Two dancers face each other and straddle each other's thighs so as to facilitate the rubbing of genitals through the clothing.
Two dancers face the same direction so that one's buttockThe buttocks are the two masses of muscle gluteus maximus sometimes abbreviated to "glute") and fat covering the posterior aspect of the human ( primate) pelvis. They allow humans (primates) to sit upright comfortably without resting weight on their feet,s are rubbing on the other's groin.
Grinding is the performing of a trick called a "grind" in various sports:
In skateboardingSkateboarding is the act of rolling on or interacting with a skateboard. Someone who skateboards is a skater (or skateboarder or most fully skateboard rider , though the shortest term may also refer to someone ice skating or roller skating. Like roller sk, a grind is performed when skidding the truckFor further uses of the word truck see Truck (disambiguation). A truck is a motor vehicle for transporting goods. Unlike automobiles, which usually have a unibody construction, most trucks (with the exception of the car-like minivan) are built around a sts against the surface. See Skateboarding trickA skateboarding trick is a maneuver performed while skateboarding. Most skateboarding tricks are based on the Ollie (once called the Ollie Pop), which was invented by Alan "Ollie" Gelfand of Florida in the late 1970s. Skateboarding tricks can involve vari.
In freestyle snowboarding, a grind is performed when on a surface other than snow, e.g. rail grinds.
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