Grid - English meaning

verb

To move or exist in a pattern of lines crossing something or each other

Usage examples:

This area of the city is criss-crossed by railway lines., the streets ran in a regular criss-cross …

noun

An essential supporting structure of a building, vehicle, or object.

Usage examples:

A conservatory in a delicate framework of iron

noun

A structure around or over which something is built

Usage examples:

The steel framework of a bridge, they’re operating within the framework of a military bureaucracy.,…

noun

A system of rules, ideas, or beliefs that is used to plan or decide something

Usage examples:

A framework for sth the future trade agenda can provide an important framework for restoring sustai…

noun

A thin transparent fabric of silk, linen, or cotton.

Usage examples:

A hat swathed in green gauze

noun

A very thin, light cloth used for making clothing and for covering cuts in the skin

Usage examples:

A gauze skirt, a sterile gauze bandage

noun

A network of lines representing meridians and parallels, on which a map or plan can be represented.

Usage examples:

The intimate zone of home is plotted on the abstract graticule of the globe.

adjective

Sounding harsh and unpleasant.

Usage examples:

A high, grating voice

noun

A framework of parallel or crossed bars, typically preventing access through an opening while permitting communication or ventilation.

Usage examples:

Suddenly, something thudded against the grating that covered the opening.

verb

Reduce (food) to small shreds by rubbing it on a grater.

Usage examples:

Peel and roughly grate the carrots

noun

A grating or screen of metal bars or wires, placed in front of something as protection or to allow ventilation or discreet observation.

Usage examples:

I looked through the grille into the church

noun

A frame of metal bars used to cover something such as a window or a machine

Usage examples:

A security grille, a grille separated the prisoners from their visitors.

noun

Ornamental work in metal with interlacing strips forming a lattice.

Usage examples:

Round deep windows covered with iron grillwork

noun

A structure consisting of strips of wood or metal crossed and fastened together with square or diamond-shaped spaces left between, used as a screen or fence or as a support for climbing plants.

Usage examples:

Honeysuckle was growing up a lattice round the door

noun

A structure made from strips of wood or other material that cross over each other with spaces between

noun

The cultural, social, or political environment in which something develops.

Usage examples:

Oxbridge was the matrix of the ideology

noun

A group of numbers or other symbols arranged in a rectangle that can be used to solve particular mathematical problems

noun

A group of numbers or other things arranged in a rectangle that can be used to solve a problem or measure something

Usage examples:

The bottom row of the matrix indicates typical lead times for starting activities in order to compl…

noun

Material made of a network of wire or thread.

Usage examples:

Mesh for fishing nets

verb

(of the teeth of a gearwheel) be engaged with another gearwheel.

Usage examples:

One gear meshes with the input gear

noun

A material loosely woven of wire, plastic, or thread so that it has spaces in it like a net

Usage examples:

Pour the liquid through a strainer of fine mesh., [ i ] the teeth of the smaller and larger gears m…

noun

An arrangement of intersecting horizontal and vertical lines.

Usage examples:

A spider constructs a complex network of several different kinds of threads

verb

Connect as or operate with a network.

Usage examples:

Compared with the railways the canals were less effectively networked

noun

A network of nerves or vessels in the body.

Usage examples:

Around the abdominal aorta, the aortic plexus of nerves can be identified.

noun

A pattern or arrangement of interlacing lines resembling a net.

Usage examples:

The fish should have a blue back with white reticulation

noun

A fine network or netlike structure.

Usage examples:

The cytoplasm contained numerous mitochondria, fragmented rough endoplasmic reticula, small lipid d…

proper noun

A small southern constellation (the net), between dorado and hydrus.

adjective

Used with preceding greek letter or numeral to designate a star in the constellation reticulum.

Usage examples:

The star beta reticuli