GRID

grid, gridiron

(noun) a cooking utensil of parallel metal bars; used to grill fish or meat

grid, control grid

(noun) an electrode placed between the cathode and anode of a vacuum tube to control the flow of electrons through the tube

grid, storage-battery grid

(noun) a perforated or corrugated metal plate used in a storage battery as a conductor and support for the active material

grid

(noun) a pattern of regularly spaced horizontal and vertical lines

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

grid (plural grids)

A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle.

A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire.

• Die Hard (movie)

(computing) A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, used mainly to solve single and complex scientific or technical problems or to process data at high speeds (as in clusters).

(cartography) A method of marking off maps into areas.

(motor racing) The pattern of starting positions of the drivers for a race.

(electronics) The third (or higher) electrode of a vacuum tube (triode or higher).

(electricity) A battery-plate somewhat like a grating, especially a zinc plate in a primary battery, or a lead plate in a secondary or storage battery.

A grating of parallel bars; a gridiron.

Hyponyms

• national grid

• numerical grid

• supergrid

Verb

grid (third-person singular simple present grids, present participle gridding, simple past and past participle gridded)

To mark with a grid.

To assign a reference grid to.

Anagrams

• gird

Noun

GRID (uncountable)

(dated) Acronym of gay-related immunodeficiency.

Anagrams

• gird

Source: Wiktionary


Grid, n.

Definition: A grating of thin parallel bars, similar to a gridiron.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

22 February 2025

ANALYSIS

(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by Alcaldía Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de Bolívar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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