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

  • 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.

    CNN Transcript Jul 28, 2002 2002

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

  • 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.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

  • 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.

    Temperature Sensitive Glass Tiles 2009

  • Before grouting the cork tile a sealer must be applied.

    Gabrielle Wall | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • That operating room had blue ceramic tiles in large squares on the ceiling with white grouting.

    365 tomorrows » 2009 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009

  • 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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