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CLEAR GRIT

Specialty Definition: CLEAR GRIT

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Clear Grit (The) The real thing, as "champagne is ... if it be but the clear grit" (Anglo-Saxon, gryt, bolted flour).
A man of grit, or clear grit, is one of decision, from whom all doubt or vacillation has been bolted out, as husks from fine flour. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: CLEAR GRIT

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Resolution

Noun: determination, will; iron will, unconquerable will; will of one's own, decision, resolution; backbone; clear grit, true grit, grit; sand, strength of mind, strength of will; resolve; (intent); firmness; (stability); energy, manliness, vigor; game, pluck; resoluteness; (courage); zeal; aplomb; desperation; devotion, devotedness.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Anagrams: CLEAR GRIT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-i-l-r-r-t"

-2 letters: article, cigaret, cirrate, erratic, glacier, glarier, gracile, recital, retrial, trailer.

-3 letters: aiglet, aigret, artier, atelic, cagier, carrel, cartel, carter, citral, claret, crater, eclair, gaiter, garlic, garret, garter, gelati, glaire, grater, irater, irreal, lacier, larger, ligate, racier, railer, rectal, regilt, relict, retail, retial, retral, rictal, tailer, tergal, tracer, tragic, triage.

-4 letters: agile, aglet, airer.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-i-l-r-r-t"
 

+2 letters: agriculture, correlating.

 

+3 letters: agricultures.

 

+4 letters: recalibrating, recirculating, relubricating.

 

+5 letters: petrographical, reaccelerating, rearticulating, rectangularity, ultraenergetic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: CLEAR GRIT


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 4C 45 41 52      47 52 49 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01001100 01000101 01000001 01010010 00100000 01000111 01010010 01001001 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#76 &#69 &#65 &#82 &#32 &#71 &#82 &#73 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004C 0045 0041 0052      0047 0052 0049 0054

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3746393552241524354

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