different between gril vs grip

English

Etymology

From Middle English grille, from Old English gril (“harsh”), akin to German grell (“offending the ear or eye, shrill, dazzling”).

Adjective

gril (comparative more gril, superlative most gril)

1. (obsolete) harsh; hard; severe; stern; rough

Anagrams

• Girl, LIRG, girl

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??r?l]

Noun

gril m

1. grill, barbecue

Related terms

• grilovat

Further reading

• gril in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
• gril in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dalmatian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

gril

1. cricket

References

• Bartoli, Matteo Giulio (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published 2000

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?l/
• Hyphenation: gril
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle High German grille (“cricket”) (modern Grille). Perhaps the shift in sense is due to a conflation of crickets with earwigs, involving the popular myth of insects which crawl through the ears to lay eggs in the brain, altering a person's behaviour.

Noun

gril f or m (plural grillen, diminutive grilletje n)

1. caprice, whim, impulse

Etymology 2

Noun

gril m (plural grils)

1. Alternative form of grill

French

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??il/

Noun

gril m (plural grils)

1. grill (for cooking)

Derived terms

• griller

Related terms

• grille

Further reading

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

Norman

Etymology

From Old French greïl, graïl (“gridiron”), from graïlle (“grate, grating”), from Latin cr?t?cula (“gridiron”), diminutive of cr?tis (“hurdle, wickerwork”), from Proto-Indo-European *kor(?)t-, *kr?t- (“to weave, twist, wattle; wicker”).

Noun

gril m (plural grils)

1. (Jersey) grill

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ril]

Noun

gril m (genitive singular grilu, nominative plural grily, genitive plural grilov, declension pattern of dub)

1. grill, barbecue

Declension

Related terms

• grilova?

References

• gril in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French grille.

Noun

gril (definite accusative grili, plural griller)

1. grill (barbecue)

Declension

Synonyms

• ?zgara

References

• gril in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English grill.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?l/

Noun

gril m (plural griliau)

1. grill, broiler

Derived terms

• grilio (“to grill, to broil”)

Mutation

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “gril”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: gr?p, IPA^(key): /???p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English grippen, from Old English grippan, from a Proto-Germanic *gripjan? (compare Old High German gripfen); compare the related Old English gr?pan, whence English gripe. See also grope, and the related Proto-Germanic *gr?pan?.

Verb

grip (third-person singular simple present grips, present participle gripping, simple past and past participle gripped)

1. (transitive) To take hold of, particularly with the hand.

2. (transitive) To help or assist, particularly in an emotional sense.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

     By and by fumes of brandy began to fill the air, and climb to where I lay, overcoming the mouldy smell of decayed wood and the dampness of the green walls. It may have been that these fumes mounted to my head, and gave me courage not my own, but so it was that I lost something of the stifling fear that had gripped me, and could listen with more ease to what was going forward

3. (intransitive) To do something with another that makes you happy/gives you relief.

4. To trench; to drain.

Synonyms

• (take hold of): clasp, grasp; See also Thesaurus:grasp
• (help or assist): aid, help out, lend a hand; See also Thesaurus:help
• (do something happy with another): hang out
• (trench):

Derived terms

• begrip
• gripping

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English grippe, gripe, an amalgam of Old English gripe (“grasp, hold”) (cognate with German Griff) and Old English gripa (“handful”) (cognate with Swedish grepp).

Noun

grip (countable and uncountable, plural grips)

1. A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand.

2. A handle or other place to grip.

3. (computing, graphical user interface) A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or moved.
4. (film production) A person responsible for handling equipment on the set.
5. A channel cut through a grass verge (especially for the purpose of draining water away from the highway).
6. (chiefly Southern California slang) A lot of something.

7. (chiefly Southern California slang) A long time.

8. Archaic spelling of grippe: Influenza, flu.
   • 1911, Theodore Dreiser, Jennie Gerhardt, Chapter XXXII:

     It so happened that, during a stretch of inclement weather in the fall, Lester was seized with a mild form of grip. When he felt the first symptoms he thought that his indisposition would be a matter of short duration, and tried to overcome it by taking a hot bath and a liberal dose of quinine. But the infection was stronger than he counted on; by morning he was flat on his back, with a severe fever and a splitting headache.

9. (archaic) A small travelling-bag or gripsack.
10. An apparatus attached to a car for clutching a traction cable.
11. Assistance; help or encouragement. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

12. A helpful, interesting, admirable, or inspiring person.

13. (slang) As much as one can hold in a hand; a handful.

14. (figuratively) A tenacious grasp; a holding fast.

15. A device for grasping or holding fast to something.

See also

• (a lot of) hella, hecka

Related terms

• come to grips
• get to grips with
• key grip
• get a grip
• gripper

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English grip, grippe, gryppe (“a ditch, drain”), from Old English gr?p (“a furrow, burrow”) and gr?pe (“a furrow, ditch, drain”), from Proto-Germanic *gr?piz (“a furrow, groove”). Cognate with Middle Dutch grippe, gruppe (“ditch, drain”), greppe, German Low German Gruppe (“ditch, drain”). Related also to Old English gr?p (“a ditch, drain”). More at groop.

Alternative forms

• gripe

Noun

grip (plural grips)

1. (dialectal) A small ditch or trench; a channel to carry off water or other liquid; a drain.

Derived terms

• gripple

Etymology 4

From Middle English gripe, from Old French gripe, from Latin grypus, gryphus.

Noun

grip (plural grips)

1. (obsolete) The griffin.

Anagrams

• IGRP, PIRG, prig

Albanian

Etymology

Probably a modern loanword, from German Grippe.

Noun

grip m

1. flu, influenza

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French grippe, from Frankish *gr?pan (“to seize”), from Proto-Germanic *gr?pan?.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /???ip/

Noun

grip f (plural grips)

1. flu (influenza)

Further reading

• “grip” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “grip” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “grip” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “grip” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English grip.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?p/

Noun

grip m (plural grippen, diminutive gripje n)

1. hold (to ensure control)

Related terms

• greep
• griep
• grijpen
• begrip

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French grippe (“influenza”).

Noun

grip

1. influenza, flu

Icelandic

Noun

grip

1. inflection of gripur:
   1. indefinite accusative singular
   2. indefinite dative singular

Ladino

Etymology

Borrowed from French grippe (“influenza”).

Noun

grip f (Latin spelling)

1. (medicine) influenza, flu

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French gripe.

Noun

grip

1. Alternative form of gripe (“griffin”)

Etymology 2

From Old English gr?p.

Noun

grip

1. Alternative form of grippe

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

grip

1. imperative of gripe

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

grip

1. present tense of gripa and gripe
2. imperative of gripa and gripe

Romansch

Noun

grip m (plural grips)

1. rock

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ri?p/
• Rhymes: -i?p

Noun

grip c

1. griffin

Declension

Verb

grip

1. imperative of gripa.

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French grippe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ip/

Noun

grip (definite accusative gripi, plural gripler)

1. (pathology) flu, influenza, grippe

Yola

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

grip (plural gripès)

1. stitch

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN