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grid
/ɡɹɪd/
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What does grid mean?
noun
- A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle.
- A tiling of the plane with regular polygons; a honeycomb.
- A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire.
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noun
- 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).
- A method of marking off maps into areas.
- The pattern of starting positions of the drivers for a race.
- The third (or higher) electrode of a vacuum tube (triode or higher).
- 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.
- An openwork ceiling above the stage or studio, used for affixing lights etc.
- A bicycle.
- (dated, offensive) Acronym of gay-related immunodeficiency (“AIDS”).
verb
- To mark with a grid.
- To assign a reference grid to.
- To enter in a grid.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɡɹɪd/
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These days, larger, modern mills generate electricity with bagasse and sell their surplus to the local power grid.
Suppose you were a cook with a fork six feet long, and had three roasting sheep on the grid at once to be forked off as quickly as possible.
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The strips should be made thin and then boiled, or, what is better still, should be placed in a deep pan, and held on a grid above the water, so they will be thoroughly steamed.
And she would drag him up above the clouds, in the magnificent disorder of the grid, where she loved to make him giddy by running in front of him along the frail bridges, among the thousands of ropes fastened to the pulleys, the windlasses, the rollers, in the midst of a regular forest of yards and masts.