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Grid vs Broiler - What's the difference?

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Grid is a related term of broiler.


As nouns the difference between grid and broiler

is that grid is (disease|obsolete) gay-related immunodeficiency — former name of aids while broiler is broiler (chicken).

grid

English

(wikipedia grid)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle.
  • A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire.
  • * (movie)
    • You can't turn off the building from here; you have to shut down the whole grid .
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Out of the gloom , passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid'. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national ' grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}
  • (computing) A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, such structures being known as a computational grid or simply grid computing, and 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.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 13, author=Andrew Benson, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win , passage=McLaren's Lewis Hamilton fought up from the back of the grid to eighth, with team-mate Jenson Button taking ninth.}}
  • (electronics) The third (or higher) electrode of a vacuum tube (triode or higher).

    • Derived terms

    * gridlock * grid reference * national grid * numerical grid * off the grid * supergrid * grid point

    Related terms

    * griddle * gridiron

    See also

    * square * rectangle * lattice * reticulum

    Verb

  • To mark with a grid.
  • To assign a reference grid to.

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    Anagrams

    * ----

    broiler

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who broils, or cooks by broiling.
  • (cookware) A device used to broil food; part of an oven or a small stove; a grill.
  • A chicken suitable for broiling.
  • (archaic) One who excites broils; one who engages in or promotes noisy quarrels.
  • * Hammond
    • What doth he but turn broiler , make new libels against the church?

    Derived terms

    * broilerhouse