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grind: vt. 1. [MIT and Berkeley; now rare] To prettify hardcopy of code,
especially LISP code, by reindenting lines, printing keywords and comments
in distinct fonts (if available), etc. This usage was associated with the
MacLISP community and is now rare; prettyprint was
and is the generic term for such operations. 2. [Unix] To generate the formatted version of a document from the
troff, TeX, or Scribe source.
3. [common] To run seemingly interminably, esp. (but not
necessarily) if performing some tedious and inherently useless task.
Similar to crunch or grovel.
Grinding has a connotation of using a lot of CPU time, but it is possible
to grind a disk, network, etc. See also hog.
4. To make the whole system slow. “Troff really grinds a
PDP-11.” 5. grind grind excl. Roughly, “Isn't the machine slow
today!”
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