Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In building: The process of filling in or finishing with grout.
- noun The grout thus filled in.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The process of filling in or finishing with grout; also, the grout thus filled in.
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- verb Present participle of
grout . - noun An
application of grout.
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Examples
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It's something that can be done, what we call grouting, which you push like a cement kind of substance down the hole, it fills up and then you're done.
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As I have observed elsewhere, a geologist of experience states that both the bricks and the locally-termed grouting, or mortar, are alike made from local material.
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter
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The project foresees the standardization of the bazaar's window frames in wood (they are currently made of a number of different materials), the renovation of store fronts, the cleaning of the bazaar's façade and the removal of the cement-mortar grouting, which is to be replaced with Khorasan mortar.
TODAY'S ZAMAN :: News TODAY’S ZAMAN WITH WIRES 2010
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The project foresees the standardization of the bazaar's window frames in wood (they are currently made of a number of different materials), the renovation of store fronts, the cleaning of the bazaar's façade and the removal of the cement-mortar grouting, which is to be replaced with Khorasan mortar.
TODAY'S ZAMAN :: News TODAY’S ZAMAN WITH WIRES 2010
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And although his distinctive voice is evident in a characteristic way with melodic hooks (he gets optimum mileage from his slowly oscillating opening idea) and the accompaniments and shimmering orchestral "grouting" are recognisably his - not least in those "wrong-note" displacements and slightly gawky rhythmic tics - so much of who he is musically is subsumed by who he is trying to be.
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And although his distinctive voice is evident in a characteristic way with melodic hooks (he gets optimum mileage from his slowly oscillating opening idea) and the accompaniments and shimmering orchestral "grouting" are recognisably his - not least in those "wrong-note" displacements and slightly gawky rhythmic tics - so much of who he is musically is subsumed by who he is trying to be.
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Also beware that glass tiles will generally appear a bit darker after grouting them because light cannot get in through all 4 sides of the tile, only through the front.
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Before grouting the cork tile a sealer must be applied.
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That operating room had blue ceramic tiles in large squares on the ceiling with white grouting.
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When I spoke to him last, he was fixing the grouting in a pub in Christchurch.
A Soccer Nomad's Pilgrimage to Christchurch Joe E. Melvin 2010
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