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grill - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To broil on a gridiron.
- transitive verb To torture or afflict as if by broiling.
- transitive verb Informal To question relentlessly; cross-examine.
- transitive verb To mark or emboss with a gridiron.
- noun A cooking surface of parallel metal bars; a gridiron.
- noun Food cooked by broiling or grilling.
- noun An informal restaurant or a room in a restaurant where grilled foods are served.
- noun A series of marks grilled or embossed on a surface.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Harsh; rough; severe; cruel.
- noun A grated utensil for broiling meat, etc., over a fire; a gridiron.
- noun Harm.
- To make angry; provoke.
- To terrify; cause to tremble.
- To tremble; shiver.
- To snarl; snap.
- To broil on or as on a grill or gridiron.
- To undergo broiling; be in a broil.
- To mark or stamp with a series of parallel lines like a grill; specifically, in line-engraving, to break up (a too flat surface) with short bars of faint white lines sometimes crossed at right angles, as may be seen in some forms of postage-stamps.
- noun Faint and short white lines or cross-bars on some flat surfaces of engraving.
- noun In electricity, the grid of a storage cell.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A gridiron.
- noun That which is broiled on a gridiron, as meat, fish, etc.
- noun A figure of crossed bars with interstices, such as those sometimes impressed upon postage stamps.
- noun A grillroom.
- intransitive verb To undergo the process of being grilled, or broiled; to broil.
- transitive verb To broil on a grill or gridiron.
- transitive verb To torment, as if by broiling.
- transitive verb To stamp or mark with a grill.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
rack ; agrid ofwire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used toprotect something while allowing the passage ofair andliquids . Typical uses: to allow air through afan while preventing fingers or objects from passing; to allow people to talk to somebody, while preventingattack . - noun On a
vehicle , aslotted cover as above, to protect and hide theradiator , while admitting air to cool it. - noun A device comprising a source of
radiant heat and a means of holding food near it, to cook it; abarbecue ; agriddle . - noun colloquial A type of jewelry worn on the front teeth; by extension, the front teeth regarded collectively.
- verb To
cook food on a grill; tobarbecue . - verb Australia, New Zealand, UK To cook food under the
element of astove or only under the top element of anoven - (US)broil . - verb colloquial To
interrogate ; toquestion aggressively orharshly . - verb transitive, Scotland, US To make
angry ;provoke . - verb transitive To
terrify ; maketremble . - verb intransitive To
tremble ;shiver . - verb intransitive, Northern England, Scotland To
snarl ;snap . - adjective
harsh ,rough ,severe ;cruel - noun
harm
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate
- verb cook over a grill
- verb examine thoroughly
- noun a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French griller, from gril, gridiron, from Old French greille, from Latin crātīcula; see griddle.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Middle English gril, grille ("harsh, rough, severe"), from Old English *griell, from Proto-Germanic *grellaz (“angry”), from Proto-Indo-European *gher- (“to rattle, make a noise, grumble”). Cognate with German grell ("harsh, angry"), Danish grel ("shrill, glaring, dazzling").
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Middle English grillen ("to anger, provoke"), from Old English grillan, griellan ("to annoy, vex, offend"), from Proto-Germanic *grellanan (“to shout, make angry”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to rattle, make a noise, grumble”). Cognate with Dutch grillen ("to shudder, shiver"), Low German vergrellen ("to anger, provoke"), German grollen ("to rumble").
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
1655, from French gril, from Middle French, from Old French greïl, graïl ("gridiron"), from graïlle ("grate, grating"), from Latin crātīcula ("gridiron"), diminutive of crātis ("hurdle, wickerwork"), from Proto-Indo-European *kor(ə)t-, *krāt- (“to weave, twist, wattle; wicker”). Related to griddle, hurdle.
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Examples
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When the grill is at its hottest, carefully (and quickly) place the fish onto the grill ..
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When the grill is at its hottest, carefully (and quickly) place the fish onto the grill ..
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If a grill is available, a couple of nice sirloin steaks or burger.
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The steak on the grill is at least as appealing as the veal dish that took all afternoon to put together.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » A CoyoteBlog First — Foodblogging! 2010
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A whole fish cooked on the grill is a stalwart dish in Greek cuisine.
Jay Weston: Xandros -- Greek Food and Dancing in Beverly Hills Jay Weston 2010
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If a grill is available, a couple of nice sirloin steaks or burger.
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A whole fish cooked on the grill is a stalwart dish in Greek cuisine.
Jay Weston: Xandros -- Greek Food and Dancing in Beverly Hills Jay Weston 2010
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A whole fish cooked on the grill is a stalwart dish in Greek cuisine.
Jay Weston: Xandros -- Greek Food and Dancing in Beverly Hills Jay Weston 2010
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Yes, the kind with the element or gas flame, though I've never used one of those above is what we call a grill here in the UK.
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KING: No.J. LENO: I used to work at a, well, like at Howard J.hnson's, they would give you, like, a frozen patty, and then the guy would give you what they called grill chalk.
CNN Transcript - Larry King Live Weekend: The Best of Jay Leno - March 3, 2001 2001
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synonyms (135)
Words with the same meaning
- andiron
- automat
- bake
- barbecue
- baste
- beanery
- bistro
- blanch
- boil
- braise
- brew
- broil
- brown
- buffet
- buvette
- cafe
- cafeteria
- canteen
- cantina
- casserole
- chain
- chophouse
- chuck wagon
- coal tongs
- coddle
- coffee shop
- coffeehouse
- coffeeroom
- cook
- cookhouse
- cookshack
- cookshop
- course
- cover
- crane
- crook
- cross-examine
- cross-interrogate
- cross-question
- culinary masterpiece
- culinary preparation
- curry
- damper
- devil
- diner
- dining hall
- dining room
- dish
- dismember
- do
- do to perfection
- dog wagon
- draw and quarter
- drive-in
- drive-in restaurant
- eatery
- eating house
- entree
- extract information
- fast-food chain
- fire
- fire hook
- fire tongs
- firedog
- fricassee
- frizz
- frizzle
- fry
- go over
- grate
- grating
- grid
- griddle
- gridiron
- griller
- grillroom
- hamburger stand
- hash house
- hashery
- heat
- hot-dog stand
- impale
- inquisition
- interrogation
- keelhaul
- kitchen
- lifter
- lunch counter
- lunch wagon
- luncheonette
- lunchroom
- main dish
- make inquisition
- mess hall
- oven-bake
- pan
- pan-broil
- parboil
- picket
- pizzeria
- poach
- poker
- pothook
- prepare
- prepare food
- pry out
- quick-lunch counter
- rack
- restaurant
- roast
- salamander
- saute
- scallop
- sear
- shirr
- side dish
- simmer
- smorgasbord
- snack bar
- spit
- steam
- stew
- stir-fry
- tar and feather
- tavern
- tearoom
- third degree
- third-degree
- toast
- tongs
- torture
- trattoria
- tripod
- trivet
- turnspit
hypernyms (6)
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Forms
rhymes (80)
Words with the same terminal sound
- Bastille
- Belleville
- Bill
- Brazil
- Brill
- Gil
- Gill
- Hill
- Jill
- Lil
- Lille
- Mill
- Mille
- Phil
- Seville
- Sill
- Still
- Tamil
- Will
- bastille
- bil
- bill
- brazil
- brill
- chill
- dill
- distil
- distill
- downhill
- drill
- fil
- fill
- fril
- frill
- fulfill
- gill
- goodwill
- grille
- hill
- il
- ill
- instill
- jill
- kill
- knill
- krill
- lil
- lill
- mil
- mill
- nil
- nill
- overbill
- phil
- pil
- pill
- prill
- quill
- refill
- rill
- shill
- shrill
- sil
- sill
- skill
- spill
- stil
- still
- swill
- thill
- thrill
- til
- till
- trill
- twill
- until
- uphill
- wil
- will
- zill
reesetee commented on the word grill
In stamp collecting, a pattern of parallel lines (or dots at the points where lines would cross) that form a grid. A grill can describe either the impressed breaks added to stamps as a security measure or a grill-like cancelling device used on various 19th-century issues.
August 27, 2008
oroboros commented on the word grill
Slang for face or mouth (smile). "Aloysius slammed Gandolph in the grill".
October 15, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word grill
Also used in one of my most favorite phrases, "to get all up in one's grill."
October 16, 2009