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The French word for grill is
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grill

French Definition


grill
     1. n. (États-Unis) Grille.
     2. v. (Cuisine) Griller.
           Why don't we get together Saturday and grill some burgers?

Translations for grill and their definitions

grille
     1. n-f. bars; railings; rack; grate
           grille de fenêtre - window bars
           grille d’un fourneau - oven rack
           grilles d’une prison - prison bars
           La grille du barbecue est pleine de graisse de saucisses. - The barbecue grate is covered in grease from the sausages.
     2. n-f. gate (with bars)
           À huit heures et quart, on ferme la grille d’entrée de l’école. - At 8:15, we close the school’s entrance gate.
     3. n-f. grid
           grilles de sudoku - sudoku grids
           grille de mots croisés - crossword grid
           Ci-joint la grille d’évaluation. - Attachment: assessment grid.
     4. v. first-person singular present of griller
     5. v. third-person singular present of griller
     6. v. second-person singular imperative of griller


gril ©
     1. n-m. grill (cooking implement made of metal rods)
     2. n-m. (historical) A heated metal grill used to torture by burning
     3. n-m. (by extension, chiefly phrasal) Torture, torment
           retourner sur le gril d'école - suffer the torment of school (literally "turn over on the grill")
           passer sur le gril - rake over the coals


griller
     1. v. to toast (cook with a toaster)
     2. v. to grill (cook with a grill)
     3. v. to toast (heat up, said of e.g. skin)
     4. v. (colloquial) to smoke (a cigarette)
     5. v. (transport) to run; to pass a stop signal or stop sign, or without yielding right of way (at duty to yield)


barbecue ©
     1. n-m. barbecue


calandre ©
     1. n-f. calender (machine)
     2. n-f. radiator grill (on a car)
     3. n-f. calandra lark
     4. n-f. wheat weevil larva


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