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Grid   /grɪd/   Listen
Grid

noun
1.
A pattern of regularly spaced horizontal and vertical lines.
2.
A system of high tension cables by which electrical power is distributed throughout a region.  Synonyms: power grid, power system.
3.
A perforated or corrugated metal plate used in a storage battery as a conductor and support for the active material.  Synonym: storage-battery grid.
4.
An electrode placed between the cathode and anode of a vacuum tube to control the flow of electrons through the tube.  Synonym: control grid.
5.
A cooking utensil of parallel metal bars; used to grill fish or meat.  Synonym: gridiron.



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"Grid" Quotes from Famous Books



... her people should be rendered fifty times as effective as it is to-day, you would find not a dearth of employment as a consequence, but rather an increase of activity and an increased demand for labor. To-day British capital and British talent are fairly grid-ironing the ancient plains and slopes of Hindostan with British canals, irrigating, and railroads. It is their gold they say; but it is not British capital, so much as British genius and British confidence, that are required. There is wealth enough in India, more gold and silver and gems, ...
— Choice Specimens of American Literature, And Literary Reader - Being Selections from the Chief American Writers • Benj. N. Martin

... without permitting a lot of oxygen to re-dissolve in the water. First rinse the live specimens in fresh water to clean away superficial dirt and slime, then submerge them in the de-oxygenated water. Place some sort of grid or other barrier to ensure that they cannot get near the surface, and re-seal the container to keep air out. Leave them for at least twenty-four hours before transferring them to a preservative fluid or ...
— Practical Taxidermy • Montagu Browne

... production, Natural gas - consumption, Natural gas - exports, and Natural gas - imports. Revision of some individual country maps, first introduced in the 2001 edition, is continued in this edition. The revised maps include elevation extremes and a partial geographic grid. Several regional maps have also been updated to reflect boundary changes and place name ...
— The 2003 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... parts of the breaker now in use by the South Metropolitan Gas Company consist essentially of a drum provided with cutting edges projecting from it, which break up the coke against a fixed grid. The drum is cast in rings, to facilitate repairs when necessary, and the capacity of the machine can therefore be increased or diminished by varying the number of these rings. The degree of fineness of the coke when broken is determined by the regulated distance of the grid ...
— Scientific American Supplement No. 360, November 25, 1882 • Various

... explosions topside; when Conn took a jeep up to observe progress there, he found the vitrified rock blown completely off the vertical shaft, exposing the rubble that had been dumped into it. The gang on the mesa-top had discovered something else; a grid of auro-copper bussbars buried four feet underground. Ten to one, radio and telescreen signals would be transmitted to that from below, and then probably picked up and rebroadcast from a relay station on one or another of the high buttes ...
— The Cosmic Computer • Henry Beam Piper

... beef, or any other piece; cut off some slices, and fry them with butter 'till they are very brown; wash your pan out every time with a little of the gravy; you may broil a few slices of the beef upon a grid-iron: put all together into a pot, with a large onion, a little salt, and a little whole pepper; let it stew 'till the meat is tender, and skim off the fat in the boiling; them strain it into your dish, and boil four ounces of vermicelly in a little of the gravy 'till ...
— English Housewifery Exemplified - In above Four Hundred and Fifty Receipts Giving Directions - for most Parts of Cookery • Elizabeth Moxon



Words linked to "Grid" :   electrode, vacuum tube, powerhouse, form, thermionic tube, electric main, tube, infrastructure, installation, plate, facility, thermionic vacuum tube, power plant, base, thermionic valve, storage battery, reference grid, power line, cooking utensil, shape, power cable, electron tube, accumulator, power station, pattern, cookware



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