1. n. A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used to protect something while allowing the passage of air and liquids. Typical uses: to allow air through a
2. n. On a vehicle, a slotted cover as above, to protect and hide the radiator, while admitting air to cool it.
3. n. (UK) A cooking device comprising a source of radiative heat and a means of holding food under it; a broiler in US English
4. n. (US) A cooking device comprising a source of radiative and convective heat and a means of holding food above it; a barbecue.
I put some peppers and mushrooms on the grill to go with dinner.
5. n. (colloquial) A type of jewelry worn on the front teeth.
Synonyms: fronts, golds
6. n. (colloquial, by extension) The front teeth regarded collectively.
7. n. Food cooked on a grill.
a packet of frozen cauliflower cheese grills
8. n. A grillroom; a restaurant serving grilled food.
These coupons will get you a discount at Johnny's Bar and Grill.
9. n. (internet slang) (misspelling of girl)
10. v. To cook (food) on a grill; to barbecue.
Why don't we get together Saturday and grill some burgers?
11. v. (transitive Australian NZ UK) To cook food under the element of a stove or only under the top element of an oven – (US) broil, (cooking) salamander.
12. v. (transitive, colloquial) To interrogate; to question aggressively or harshly.
The police grilled him about his movements at the time of the crime.
13. v. (intransitive, informal) To feel very hot; to swelter.
14. v. To stamp or mark with a grill.
15. v. (transitive, Scotland, US, obsolete) To make angry; provoke; incite.
16. v. (transitive, chiefly Scotland, obsolete) To terrify; make tremble.
17. v. (intransitive, chiefly Scotland, obsolete) To tremble; shiver.
18. v. (intransitive, Northern England, Scotland, obsolete) To snarl; snap.
1. n. A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle.
2. n. A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire.
3. n. (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 s
4. n. (cartography) A method of marking off maps into areas.
5. n. (motor racing) The pattern of starting positions of the drivers for a race.
6. n. (electronics) The third (or higher) electrode of a vacuum tube (triode or higher).
7. n. (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.
8. n. A grating of parallel bars; a gridiron.
9. v. To mark with a grid.
10. v. To assign a reference grid to.
grating
1. adj. Grinçant, discordant, désagréable.
Grating means (typically of a voice) harsh and unpleasant.
The voice of crow is described as harsh and grating.
2. n. Grille, Grillage.
A grating is a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air.
3. n. Caillebotis
A grating is a frame of iron bars to hold a fire
4. v. Participe présent de grate.
grating
1. adj. (typically of a voice) Harsh and unpleasant.
2. adj. Abrasive; tending to annoy.
3. n. A barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air.
4. n. A frame of iron bars to hold a fire.
5. n. The loose material that comes from something being grated.
Add a few gratings of nutmeg to the hot milk.
6. n. An optical system of close equidistant and parallel lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing spectra by diffraction.
7. n. (nautical, in the plural) The strong wooden lattice used to cover a hatch, admitting light and air; also, a movable lattice used for the flooring of boats.
1. n. A flat panel constructed with widely-spaced crossed thin strips of wood or other material, commonly used as a garden trellis.
2. n. (heraldry) A bearing with vertical and horizontal bands that cross each other.
3. n. (crystallography) A regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points, often decorated with a motif.
4. n. (group theory) A discrete subgroup of Rn which is isomorphic to Zn (considered as an additive group) and spans the real vector space Rn.
5. n. (music) A model of the tuning relationships of a just intonation system, comprising an array of points in a periodic multidimensional pattern.
6. n. (topology, Lie theory) A discrete subgroup L of a given locally compact group G whose quotient space G/L has finite invariant measure.
7. n. (algebra, order theory) A partially ordered set in which every pair of elements has a unique supremum and a unique infimum.
8. v. To make a lattice of.
to lattice timbers
9. v. To close, as an opening, with latticework; to furnish with a lattice.
to lattice a window
gate
1. n. Portail.
Gate in a fence.
Portail dans une clôture.
2. n. Porte.
Airport gate.
Porte d'aéroport.
gate
1. n. A doorlike structure outside a house.
2. n. Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
3. n. Movable barrier.
The gate in front of the railroad crossing went up after the train had passed.
4. n. (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
5. n. (cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
Singh was bowled through the gate, a very disappointing way for a world-class batsman to get out.
6. n. The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
7. n. (flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
8. n. Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
9. n. (electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
10. n. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
11. n. (metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
12. n. The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
13. n. (cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
14. n. A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
15. v. To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
16. v. To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out.
17. v. (biochemistry) To open a closed ion channel.Alberts, Bruce; et al. "Figure 11-21: The gating of ion channels." In: Molecular Biology of the Cell, ed. Senior, Sarah Gibbs. New York: Garland Science, 20
18. v. To furnish with a gate.
19. v. To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage. See autogating.
20. n. (now Scotland, Northern England) A way, path.
21. n. (obsolete) A journey.
22. n. (Scotland, Northern England) A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street e.g. "Briggate" (a common street name in the north of England meaning "Bridge Street") or Ki
23. n. (Britain, Scotland, dialect, archaic) Manner; gait.