different between blinds vs grille

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bla?ndz/

Noun

blinds

1. plural of blind
2. window coverings, especially vertical blinds, wood blinds, roller blinds, pleated blinds.

Verb

blinds

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blind

Gothic

Romanization

blinds

1. Romanization of ????????????????????????

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French grille.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

grille (plural grilles)

1. Alternative form of grill (only in the senses of "grating over opening" and "grating on the front of a vehicle")

   • The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.

Anagrams

• Giller

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ij/

Etymology 1

From Middle French grille, grisle, from Old French greille, graïlle, from earlier gradilie (end of 10th century), from Latin cr?ticula (or a Vulgar Latin graticula).

Noun

grille f (plural grilles)

1. gate

2. grate

3. grid

Derived terms

• gril
• grille de départ
• griller

Descendants

• ? English: grille
• ? Italian: griglia

Etymology 2

Verb

grille

1. first-person singular present indicative of griller
2. third-person singular present indicative of griller
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of griller
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of griller
5. second-person singular imperative of griller

Further reading

• “grille” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Verb

grille

1. inflection of grillen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Limburgish

Alternative forms

• chrèlle
• chrille
• gkrèlle
• gkrille
• grèlle

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch grillen, itself borrowed from English grill. Displaced older steinreustere.

Verb

grille

1. to grill

Conjugation

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English grel (“harsh”). Compare German grell (“lurid, shrill”).

Adjective

grille

1. gril, harsh, severe
   • c. 1370s. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Romaunt of the Rose. 71-4.

     The briddes, that han left hir song,

     Whyl they han suffred cold so strong

     In wedres grille, and derk to sighte,

     Ben in May, for the sonne brighte,

Descendants

• English: gril

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

grille (imperative grill, present tense griller, passive grilles, simple past and past participle grilla or grillet, present participle grillende)

1. to grill (food, in a grill)
2. (figuratively) to grill (subject someone to intense questioning)

Related terms

• grill

References

• “grille” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Spanish

Verb

grille

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of grillar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of grillar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of grillar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of grillar.