What does "grout" mean?
A thin mortar used to fill the gaps between tiles and cavities in masonry.
Grout
/ɡɹʌut/ name, noun, verb
name, noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A thin mortar used to fill the gaps between tiles and cavities in masonry.
- Grammar: grout is listed as name, noun, verb.
- Nearest alternatives: cement, cementitious grout, composition, concrete.
- Useful contrasts: dry joint, unfilled joint, ungrout.
- Usage evidence: When I tried to grout the tub myself, I did a terrible job.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A thin mortar used to fill the gaps between tiles and cavities in masonry. countable, uncountable
- 2 a thin mortar that can be poured and used to fill cracks in masonry or brickwork wordnet
- 3 Coarse meal; groats. archaic, countable, uncountable
- 4 Dregs, sediment. archaic, countable, in-plural, uncountable
"grouts of tea"
- 5 A kind of beer or ale. UK, countable, obsolete, uncountable
Verb
- 1 To insert mortar between tiles. transitive
"I spent the whole afternoon grouting the kitchen floor."
- 2 bind with grout wordnet
- 3 To affix with mortar. transitive
"The year before the pandemic, a sump tank attached to a waste pond sprang a leak and had to be grouted shut."
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
Synonyms
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Example
"When I tried to grout the tub myself, I did a terrible job."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "grout"?
Common synonyms include: cement, cementitious grout, composition, concrete, fill, grouting.
How do you use "grout" in a sentence?
When I tried to grout the tub myself, I did a terrible job.
How do you pronounce "grout"?
Pronounced /ɡɹʌut/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English growte, grut, from Old English grūt (“dregs; coarse meal”), from Proto-West Germanic *grūt, from Proto-Germanic *grūtą (compare Dutch gruit (“dregs”), German Grauß, Norwegian grut (“ground”)), lengthening of Proto-Germanic *grutą, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to grind, rub”). Related to grit.
Etymology 2
English surname, from the noun grout.