English Dictionary

grinding wheel

名詞

広義 比喩的用法

A wheel composed of an abrasive compound and used for various grinding and abrasive machining operations. / (figuratively, by extension) Something that wears down or harms by attrition.

日本語の意味

研削砥石: 研削・研磨加工に用いられる、研磨材を含むホイール。 / 比喩的意味: じわじわと摩耗・疲弊させるものや作用。

The grinding wheel suddenly cracked during the metal-shaping process, sending shards across the workshop.

金属成形の工程で古い研削砥石が突然割れて、破片が作業場中に飛び散った。

意味（1）

A wheel composed of an abrasive compound and used for various grinding and abrasive machining operations.

意味（2）

(figuratively, by extension) Something that wears down or harms by attrition.

A competing branch argues, in turn, that crime policy—policing policy in particular—has become more punitive given the heightened power of penal bureaucrats together with the diminished influence of the persons and populations most often subject to the grinding wheels of penal administration.

grinding wheels （ plural ）