grin n : a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement [syn: smile, smiling, grinning] v : to draw back the lips and reveal the teeth, in a smile, grimace, or snarl [also: grinning, grinned]

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪn

Noun

1. A smile in which the lips are parted to reveal the teeth.

Translations

• Dutch: grijns m|f
• Finnish: virnistys
• German: Grinsen
• Italian: sorriso
• Maori: pakiri
• Portuguese: sorriso aberto
• Russian: усмешка (usméška)
• Spanish: sonrisa abierta
• Swedish: flin

Verb

1. To smile parting the lips so as to show the teeth.

Translations

• Finnish: virnistää, virnistellä, virnuilla
• Maori: pakiri
• Swedish: flina

See also

• grimace
• smile

Albanian

Verb

grin

1. to cut

Grin may refer to:

• A facial expression: see Smile
• Alexander Grin, (1880 - 1932) a Russian novelist
• GRIN (novel), a novel by Hungarian writer Béla Kasztovszky
• Grin (album), an album by the thrash metal band Coroner
• Grin (band), a band formed by Nils Lofgren
  • Grin (Grin album), an album by the above band

GRIN may refer to:

• GRIN (company), a video game developer based in Sweden
• GriN bvba (company), an online-media developer based in Belgium (http://www.GriN.be)
• GRIN, an acronym for gradient index: see Gradient index optics
• Great Images in NASA, a NASA-maintained collection of high-resolution aerospace related images
• Graph Reduction Intermediate Notation, an intermediate representation for lazy functional languages
• Grand Rapids Information Network, a public television channel
• Germplasm Resources Information Network, a software project

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