grid
Definitions
- Acronym of gay-related immunodeficiency (“AIDS”) .
- A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle.
- weave, weft
- A tiling of the plane with regular polygons; a honeycomb.
- plot (the course of a story)
- A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire.
- grid (as in an urban grid)
- A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, used mainly to solve single and complex scientific or technical problems or to process data at high speeds (as in clusters).
- fabric
- A method of marking off maps into areas.
- frame
- The pattern of starting positions of the drivers for a race.
- The third (or higher) electrode of a vacuum tube (triode or higher).
- A battery-plate somewhat like a grating, especially a zinc plate in a primary battery, or a lead plate in a secondary or storage battery.
- A grating of parallel bars; a gridiron.
- An openwork ceiling above the stage or studio, used for affixing lights etc.
Equivalents
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Examples
“You can't turn⟳ off the building from here; you have⟳ to shut⟳ down the whole grid.”
“[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.”
“McLaren's Lewis Hamilton fought up from the back of the grid to eighth, with team-mate Jenson Button taking ninth.”
“They camped that night at Dingo Creek, the fire Jim quickly made, Put⟳ the Billy on the cross-piece, pitched the tent, Brought a steak from 'neath the saddle-flap, and on the "grid" 'twas laid, A piece of rusty fencing wire, well bent.”
“Everything on the grid – all the backdrops and curtains, anything that has to move⟳ up and down from the fly-tower – has to be counterweighted.”
“The cause of the disorder is unknown. Researchers call⟳ it A.I.D., for acquired immunodeficiency disease, or GRID, for gay-related immunodeficiency. It has been reported in 20 states and seven countries.”
CEFR level
C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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