Grill vs Gridiron - What's the difference?
grill | gridiron | Synonyms |
(transitive, Scotland, US) To make angry; provoke.
(transitive, chiefly, Scotland) To terrify; make tremble.
(intransitive, chiefly, Scotland) To tremble; shiver.
(intransitive, Northern England, Scotland) To snarl; snap.
harsh, rough, severe; cruel
harm
A rack; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used to protect something while allowing the passage of air and liquids. Typical uses: to allow air through a fan while preventing fingers or objects from passing; to allow people to talk to somebody, while preventing attack.
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On a vehicle, a slotted cover as above, to protect and hide the radiator, while admitting air to cool it.
A device comprising a source of radiant heat and a means of holding food near it, to cook it; a barbecue; a griddle.
(lb) A type of jewelry worn on the front teeth.
The front teeth regarded collectively.
Food cooked on a grill.
Humorous misspelling of
To cook food on a grill; to barbecue.
(Australian, NZ, UK) To cook food under the element of a stove or only under the top element of an oven – (US) broil, (cooking) salamander.
(colloquial) To interrogate; to question aggressively or harshly.
An instrument of torture on which people were secured before being burned by fire.
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An iron rack or grate used for broiling flesh and fish over coals.
Any object resembling the rack or grate.
(nautical) An openwork frame on which vessels are placed for examination, cleaning, and repairs.
(American football) The field on which American football is played.
(uncountable) American football.
* 1995 October 3, Peter O?Shea, Sports: Out on the field'', ''(The Advocate) ,
* 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 ,
* 2009 , Deborah Healey, Sport and the Law , reference note, ,
(Australia, and, New Zealand) A generic term for American and Canadian football, particularly when used to distinguish from other codes of football.
As nouns the difference between grill and gridiron
is that grill is harm while gridiron is an instrument of torture on which people were secured before being burned by fire.As a verb grill
is to make angry; provoke.As an adjective grill
is harsh, rough, severe; cruel.grill
English
(wikipedia grill)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)Etymology 2
From (etyl) gril, .Adjective
(en-adj)Noun
(en-noun)Etymology 3
1655, from (etyl) gril, from (etyl), from (etyl) . Related to (l), (l).Alternative forms
(wikipedia) * grilleNoun
(en noun)- 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.
Derived terms
* mixed grill * grillingVerb
(en verb)- Why don't we get together Saturday and grill some burgers?
- The police grilled him about his movements at the time of the crime.
Synonyms
* See alsogridiron
English
(wikipedia gridiron)Noun
(en noun)- I know, there have been found seely boores, who have rather endure to have their feet broiled upon a Greedyron , their fingers ends crusht and wrung with the lock of a Pistoll, their eyes all bloody to be thrust out of their heads with wringing and wresting of a cord about their foreheads, before they would so much as be ransomed.
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- 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.
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- So Jackie?s name became known far and wide as an exceptional gridiron player.
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- 119 Yasser (1985) cites the famous US example of gridiron player Dick Butkus of the Chicago Bears.