different between broil vs gridiron
broil
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b???l/
- Rhymes: -??l
Etymology 1
Middle English broillen, brulen (“to broil, cook”), from Anglo-Norman bruiller, broiller (“to broil, roast”), Old French brusler, bruller (“to broil, roast, char”), a blend of two Old French verbs:
- bruir (“to burn”), from Frankish *br?jan (“to burn, scald”)
- usler (“to scorch”), from Latin ustul? (“to scorch”)
Verb
broil (third-person singular simple present broils, present participle broiling, simple past and past participle broiled)
- (transitive, Canada, US) To cook by direct, radiant heat.
- Synonym: (British) grill
- (transitive, Canada, US) To expose to great heat.
- (intransitive, Canada, US) To be exposed to great heat.
Translations
Noun
broil (plural broils)
- Food prepared by broiling.
Etymology 2
Middle English broilen (“to quarrel, present in disorder”), from Anglo-Norman broiller (“to mix up”), from Vulgar Latin *brodicul?re (“to jumble together”) from *brodum (“broth, stew”), from Frankish *broþ (“broth”), from Proto-Germanic *bruþ? (“broth”). Doublet of broth.
Verb
broil (third-person singular simple present broils, present participle broiling, simple past and past participle broiled)
- (transitive) To cause a rowdy disturbance; embroil.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To brawl.
Noun
broil (plural broils)
- (archaic) A brawl; a rowdy disturbance.
- 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act I, verses 1-2
- So, I am safe emerged from these broils! / Amid the wreck of thousands I am whole
- 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Chapter 27
- "Away with this prating dotard," said Front-de Boeuf, "lock him up in the chapel, to tell his beads till the broil be over. It will be a new thing to the saints in Torquilstone to hear aves and paters; they have not been so honoured, I trow, since they were cut out of stone."
- 1840, Robert Chambers, William Chambers, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal (volume 8, page 382)
- Since the provinces declared their independence, broils and squabblings of one sort and another have greatly retarded the advancement which they might otherwise have made.
- 1756, Edmund Burke, A Vindication of Natural Society
- I will own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.
- 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act I, verses 1-2
Synonyms
- skirmish
Translations
Anagrams
- LIBOR, libro-
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gridiron
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /????da??n/
Etymology 1
Origin uncertain, perhaps related to griddle. The ending was assimilated to iron, as if from grid +? iron, whence grid was later derived.
Noun
gridiron (plural gridirons)
- An instrument of torture on which people were secured before being burned by fire. [from 13th c.]
- An iron rack or grate used for broiling meat and fish over coals. [from 14th c.]
Related terms
- iron
- grid
Derived terms
- gridiron football
- gridiron pendulum
- gridiron valve
Translations
Etymology 2
From resembling the shape of a gridiron (a square rectilinear grid)
Noun
gridiron (countable and uncountable, plural gridirons)
- Any object resembling the rack or grate. [from 15th c.]
- (nautical) An openwork frame on which vessels are placed for examination, cleaning, and repairs.
- (theater) A raised framework from which lighting is suspended.
- (American football) The field on which American football is played. [from 19th c.]
- (uncountable, Australia and New Zealand) American and Canadian football, particularly when used to distinguish from other codes of football.
- 1995 October 3, Peter O?Shea, Sports: Out on the field, The Advocate, page 54,
- He represented Australia in this year?s rugby tour of England and is as well-known in Australia as any top gridiron player is in the United States.
- 2001, Langston Hughes, Dolan Hubbard, Jackie Robinson: First Negro in Big League Baseball: 1919—, The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 12: Works for Children and Young Adults, page 106,
- So Jackie?s name became known far and wide as an exceptional gridiron player.
- 2009, Deborah Healey, Sport and the Law, reference note, UNSW Press, page 271,
- 119 Yasser (1985) cites the famous US example of gridiron player Dick Butkus of the Chicago Bears.
- 1995 October 3, Peter O?Shea, Sports: Out on the field, The Advocate, page 54,
Synonyms
- (playing field for American football): football field
- (football, Canadian and American): North American football, gridiron football, football (North American English)
- (American football): football (US English)
Translations
Verb
gridiron (third-person singular simple present gridirons, present participle gridironing, simple past and past participle gridironed)
- To mark or cover with lines; to crisscross.
- 1901, Archibald John Little, Mount Omi and Beyond: A Record of Travel on the Thibetan Border, Cambridge University Press, 2010, Conclusion, p. 242, [1]
- This basin of Szechuan (literally "Four Streams," but which, reading the character idiographically, I should be inclined to render as "Gridironed by Streams"), […]
- 1923, Maximilian P.E. Groszmann, A Parent's Manual: Child Problems, Mental and Moral, New York: Century, p. 74, [2]
- Another logical method is that of gridironing the field by a series of straight paths that are parallel to each other.
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 8, [3]
- When Billy saw the culprit's naked back under the scourge gridironed with red welts, and worse […] Billy was horrified.
- 1949, Lewis Sinclair, The God-Seeker, New York: Popular Library, Chapter 42, p. 227,
- His white back, gridironed with scars, was as soft as a baby's.
- 2012, Janet Wallach, The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age, New York: Anchor Books, 2013, Chapter 8, p. 111, [4]
- Railways spanned the continent and gridironed the states.
- 1901, Archibald John Little, Mount Omi and Beyond: A Record of Travel on the Thibetan Border, Cambridge University Press, 2010, Conclusion, p. 242, [1]
- (New Zealand, historical) To purchase land so that the remaining adjacent sections are smaller than the minimum area purchasable as freehold, thus excluding potential freeholders.
See also
- gridiron on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- gridiron on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
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