2014-04-26 10:52:28 -04:00
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grind
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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vt. 1. [MIT and Berkeley; now rare] To prettify hardcopy of code, especially
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LISP code, by reindenting lines, printing keywords and comments in distinct
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fonts (if available), etc. This usage was associated with the MacLISP
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community and is now rare; prettyprint was and is the generic term for such
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operations. 2. [Unix] To generate the formatted version of a document from
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the troff , TeX , or Scribe source. 3. [common] To run seemingly
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interminably, esp. (but not necessarily) if performing some tedious and
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inherently useless task. Similar to crunch or grovel. Grinding has a
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connotation of using a lot of CPU time, but it is possible to grind a disk,
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network, etc. See also hog. 4. To make the whole system slow. Troff really
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grinds a PDP-11. 5. grind grind excl.
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