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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
References
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grid
English
Etymology
From a shortening of griddle or gridiron.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???d/
- Hyphenation: grid
- Rhymes: -?d
Noun
grid (plural grids)
- 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.
- 1988, Die Hard (movie)
- You can't turn off the building from here; you have to shut down the whole grid.
- 1988, Die Hard (movie)
- (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 speeds (as in clusters).
- (cartography) A method of marking off maps into areas.
- (motor racing) The pattern of starting positions of the drivers for a race.
- (electronics) The third (or higher) electrode of a vacuum tube (triode or higher).
- (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.
- A grating of parallel bars; a gridiron.
Hyponyms
- national grid
- numerical grid
- supergrid
Derived terms
- gridlock
- supergrid
Related terms
Translations
See also
References
- grid on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
grid (third-person singular simple present grids, present participle gridding, simple past and past participle gridded)
- To mark with a grid.
- To assign a reference grid to.
Translations
Further reading
- grid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- grid in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- gird
Gothic
Romanization
grid
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Portuguese
Noun
grid m (plural grids)
- (computing) grid (system distributed computers)
- (motor racing) grid (starting positions of the drivers for a race)
Synonyms
- starting positions of racers grid de largada
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