different between mesh vs grille

English

Etymology

From Middle English mesche, from Old English masc (“net”) (perhaps influenced in form by related Old English mæscre (“mesh, spot”)) both from Proto-Germanic *maskr?, *maskw?, from Proto-Indo-European *mezg- (“to knit, twist, plait”). Akin to Old High German m?sca (“mesh”), Old Saxon maska (“net”), Old Norse m?skvi, m?skun (“mesh”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

mesh (plural meshes)

1. A structure made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible/ductile material, with evenly spaced openings between them.
2. The opening or space enclosed by the threads of a net between knot and knot, or the threads enclosing such a space.
3. The engagement of the teeth of wheels, or of a wheel and rack.
4. A measure of fineness (particle size) of ground material. A powder that passes through a sieve having 300 openings per linear inch but does not pass 400 openings per linear inch is said to be -300 +400 mesh.
5. (computer graphics) A polygon mesh.

Synonyms

• (space and threads): lattice, network, net

Derived terms

• mesh number
• navmesh
• polymesh
• submesh

Translations

Verb

mesh (third-person singular simple present meshes, present participle meshing, simple past and past participle meshed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To connect together by interlocking, as gears do.
2. (intransitive, figuratively, by extension) To fit in; to come together harmoniously.

3. (transitive) To catch in a mesh.
   • a. 1547, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, "Description of the fickle affections, pangs, and slights of love"

     I know how loue doth rage vpon a yelding minde:
     How smal a net may take and meash a hart of gentle kinde

Translations

Anagrams

• Hems, Mehs, Shem, hems, mehs

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.