grid
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: broadcasting
business
cartography
computing
education
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
entertainment
geography
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
media
motor-racing
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
racing
sciences
sports
television
theater
Etymology: Back-formation or clipping of griddle or gridiron.
Inflected forms:
form: grids
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: grids
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gridding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gridded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gridded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle.
pos: noun
gloss: A tiling of the plane with regular polygons; a honeycomb.
pos: noun
gloss: A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire.
pos: noun
examples: You can't turn off the building from here; you have to shut down the whole grid.
[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
gloss: A method of marking off maps into areas.
pos: noun
gloss: The pattern of starting positions of the drivers for a race.
pos: noun
examples: McLaren's Lewis Hamilton fought up from the back of the grid to eighth, with team-mate Jenson Button taking ninth.
gloss: The third (or higher) electrode of a vacuum tube (triode or higher).
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A grating of parallel bars; a gridiron.
pos: noun
examples: They camped that night at Dingo Creek, the fire Jim quickly made,
Put the Billy on the cross-piece, pitched the tent,
Brought a steak from 'neath the saddle-flap, and on the "grid" 'twas laid,
A piece of rusty fencing wire, well bent.
gloss: An openwork ceiling above the stage or studio, used for affixing lights etc.
pos: noun
examples: Everything on the grid – all the backdrops and curtains, anything that has to move up and down from the fly-tower – has to be counterweighted.
gloss: A bicycle.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
examples: ‘Hop on the bar of my grid,’ said D'Arcy. ‘I'll double you round to meet some pals of ours.’
gloss: To mark with a grid.
pos: verb
gloss: To assign a reference grid to.
pos: verb
gloss: To enter in a grid.
pos: verb
examples: On the SAT, to answer a grid-in question, you grid in your answer by filling out the ovals.
Related words: grill
grille
lattice
rectangle
reticulum
square
Derived words: ball grid array
Cartesian grid
cattle grid
control grid
diagrid
dodecagrid
Dürer grid
electric grid
geogrid
gridable
grid butt
grid cell
gridder
griddler
griddy
grid electricity
grid girl
grid-in
gridiron
gridless
gridlike
gridline
grid-lined
gridlock
grid method
grid north
grid paper
grid plan
gridpoint
grid point
grid reference
grid road
grid square
gridwork
heptagrid
Hermann grid
icosagrid
isogrid
microgrid
minigrid
multigrid
off-grid
off the grid
off-the-grid
on the grid
orthogrid
pentagrid
power grid
progressive grid
regular grid
smart grid
starting grid
subgrid
supergrid
time-space grid
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