Definition of grid in English:

grid

noun ɡrɪdɡrɪd

1A framework of spaced bars that are parallel to or cross each other; a grating.
the metal grids had been pulled across the foyer
Example sentencesExamples
- The rooftop water tank is supported by a dense grid of 1m thick parallel brick walls penetrated by arches to create a series of 4m wide vaults.
- The floor was a mesh of metal grids that were uncomfortable to stand on.
- ‘Some of the shafts are 360 feet deep and although those near the footpaths are fenced off and protected with metal grids, the majority which are scattered all over are not,’ he said.
- Some were trying to lift gratings and grids in an attempt to enter the sewers whilst a few attempted to break down the doors leading into the Black Tower.
- The windows on the opposite wall as the doors had metal grids with openings small enough to prevent anything bigger than the open palm of a regular human from passing through.
- I look up, and stuck on any available space on the lighting grid are giant nets filled with balloons.
- The only significant feature left on the premises is a strikingly tall, narrow metal grid, twisted and contorted as it faces skyward.
- Metal exclusion grids and escape hatches are now in use in prawn fisheries around the world to stop bigger fish being wastefully killed.
- If Ryan found himself stranded on the lower deck, he would stick his feet through the metal grid and try to unseat his smug-faced sibling from the upper bunk.
- Look down through the metal grid and you'll be faced with a gut-churning drop to the ground.
- Simple window grids prevent falls, but still let in plenty of air & sunlight.
- The cell was empty except for a toilet in the corner, one side of the wall covered by a metal grid.
- A metal grid set around the edge of the pitch diffuses faint natural light into this inner sanctum.
- The discomfort underfoot was gone, the metal grids replaced by a beige floor covering softer than sand.
- Following complaints from villagers that the sheep were marauding through their gardens, metal road grids were installed as a deterrent.
- Metal decking grids rang under his feet when he stepped from the lift, drowning the hum as the door closed.
- Suspended ceilings are hung from the ceiling joists with a metal grid.
- The grids are made from metal or vinyl in a color that matches the window's frame, giving the appearance of a traditional window.
- The metal grid on the front panel facilitates ventilation of the device.
- An armed and uniformed stranger handcuffs and takes away your parent, then places you in a police car, where you are separated from your rescuer by a metal grid.
Synonyms
grating, mesh, gauze, grille, grillwork, lattice, framework, network, criss-cross
2A network of lines that cross each other to form a series of squares or rectangles.
a grid of tree-lined streets
Example sentencesExamples
- Then draw a grid of larger squares on a piece of blank paper.
- Maramba was laid on a rectangular grid of streets and lanes, formerly 15 blocks in all, covering an area of less than one square kilometre.
- So we improvised, drawing a grid of squares and quickly writing one letter in each square.
- A digital image can be regarded as a square grid of points, or pixels, with each point having a particular shade of gray.
- From its neat grid of streets which parallel the long waterfront, a more chaotic jumble of lanes wriggle up the hillside.
- Other than the fact that word squares and Sudoku puzzles are both arranged in square grids, they really don't have much in common.
- Mathematically speaking, a cross-stitch pattern is simply a rectangular grid where some of the squares in the grid are filled with colors.
- Mondrian's style of painting involved the use of strictly horizontal or vertical black lines to create a grid of rectangles, some of which were filled in with black or white, or vivid red, blue or yellow.
- The results are then tabulated in a series of checklists or grids to indicate possible or probable health effects.
- First, a single square in the grid is chosen to serve as the focal point.
- Beyond the close, cleared about 1800, is a bustling city, still occupying the grid of streets laid out by the bishop's planners almost 800 years ago.
- With the chalk line, mark a grid of roughly 30-inch squares on the concrete.
- Yet, despite the city's size and bewildering cultural mix, getting around it proves remarkably easy, with the grid of streets easily navigated by foot or subway and tram.
- A series of 126x68 mm grids were placed over the transparencies.
- When it comes to layout, you can affix photos on the wall in a grid, spaced only a few inches apart from one another, or you can center a bigger piece in the middle of your wall.
- Liverpool embarked in the 1830s on a programme of squares and terraces in sober brickwork within a grid of wide streets, modelled on Dublin.
- Your characters can only move so many spaces on the grid each turn.
- From there, a grid of cobbled streets march off into the middle distance.
- Each page had a grid with 60 numbered squares on it.
Synonyms
matrix, network, reticulation, reticulum
technical plexus, decussation, graticule
1. 2.1 A grid of regular squares on a map that are marked with numbers or letters to enable a place to be precisely located.
  Example sentencesExamples
  I don't call in grid coordinates of my whereabouts any more.
  The grid of longitude and latitude looks the same from either the ‘top’ or the ‘bottom’ of the world.
  These maps and grids will enable planning for operations in the subsequent field season.
  Essential tools include a bird identification field guide, a map of the airfield with a superimposed grid system for locating birds, and a pair of binoculars.
  For example, on geographers' globes of the Earth we use a grid of latitude and longitude lines to label positions on the Earth's surface uniquely.
  He made another important contribution in using a grid to locate positions of places on the Earth.
  If photography could fix images onto a precisely calibrated grid, it could become a useful tool for mapping, the primary activity of the survey.
2. 2.2 A pattern of lines marking the starting places on a motor-racing track.
  the 20-year-old didn't get the best of starts off the grid
  Example sentencesExamples
  But that did not stop them qualifying first and second fastest on the starting grid for race one.
  In qualifying, Ralf Schumacher could only secure 17th place on the grid.
  The drizzle had long since disappeared by the time Class 1 cars had settled themselves on the grid and the track remained completely dry throughout the night.
  Schumacher was sixth on the grid - his lowest starting position so far - and yet he won.
  A companion rule will also allow officials to move a driver 10 places back on the grid as punishment for driving transgressions in the previous race.
  He was third on the grid, behind Schumacher and Trulli and was running third in the first half of the race.
  ‘There are 22 drivers on the grid, and we have two of the ones that aim to win,’ says Williams of his drivers.
  Maria de Villota was sixth on the starting grid and went off the track in the first lap.
  Juan Pablo Montoya will start from fourth on the grid with his team mate Ralf Schumacher lining up in seventh position.
  The officials handed Tom a penalty that meant he would be put back six places on the grid after qualifying at Brands Hatch.
  Borcheller started fifth on the GTS grid and moved up to third in the first 40 minutes of the 12-hour race.
  The car was pulled off the grid when the team realised that the problem was still apparent and the car did not start.
  The drivers have just one lap to post a time to determine the starting grid for tomorrow's race.
  Galway, too, has a fine venue and up to forty drivers could be lined up on the grid on the Southern circuit.
  Actually, this is the first time you have won a Formula One race from fourth on the grid, for what that's worth.
  In contrast it was a disappointing day for Heikki, who failed to get off the grid at all after suffering a transmission problem with his Arden car.
  Takuma Sato made the most sensational start off the grid, stealing the limelight as he scorched his way from 7th to 4th.
  In qualifying, both BMW Williams F1 Team drivers lined up on the front row of the grid.
  And when we start losing two, three, or four teams off the back of the grid, suddenly the whole of F1 is under threat.
  We time how long it takes a driver to cover a quarter mile, their speed at the end of the run and their reaction time off the grid.
3. 2.3 A field for American football; a gridiron.
3A network of cables or pipes for distributing power, especially high-voltage transmission lines for electricity.
the reactor was connected to the grid in 1985
Example sentencesExamples
- The transmission grid has been improved since then, reducing chances of another outage.
- He says the cost to upgrade the grid could run $100 billion over 10 years.
- As wholesale electric markets evolve, utility companies and other electric generators have greater incentive to stretch the grid to its limits to gain a competitive advantage.
- In the short term, development experts say renewable energy systems would best help poor isolated villages without connections to electricity grids.
- Yet the pumps all seem to have worked off the regular electrical grid with little or no local backup power.
- If it's tranquillity you're after, the Spanish countryside has it in abundance, though if you don't have a good water source or a connection to the electricity grid, life can become a struggle.
- I wish the president and the administration would talk more about modernizing our grid.
- Nuclear power plants are connected to electricity grids in more than 30 countries and provide some 17% of the electricity consumed worldwide.
- The electrical power grid is also a mess.
- Aerial photos of Sydney were found in his possession with writings and maps relating to the national electricity grids and other utilities.
- Another initiative is the creation of a 1,300 kilometre fibre trunk along the national power transmission grid.
- I mean, the networks, the information networks behind the grid, utility by utility, they don't talk to each other.
- Consumers in Germany receive low-interest loans and a favorable guaranteed price when feeding excess electricity into the grid.
- They also condemn the network of power plants that supply electricity to the grid.
- Such rock-solid policies ended uncertainties about whether producers could sell their electricity into the grid and at what price.
- So connect the electricity grids of east and west and one can supply the other when its own demand is low.
- But we could alternatively send wind-turbine electricity through the grid and manufacture hydrogen locally.
- A major incident here in L.A. could shut down public infrastructure, power grids, food distribution networks, transportation arteries, and the phone lines - just to name a few.
- And I think this is an indication of the fact that we need to modernize the electricity grid.
- Worldport's Dublin site is also connected to the national electricity grid at two places to limit the impact of power failures.
1. 3.1Computing A number of computers linked together via the Internet so that their combined power may be harnessed to work on difficult problems.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Not long ago - just a few years - setting up computer clusters and grids was a rough job.
  The grid will initially link the mammogram databases of several hospitals in the UK, with the potential to include all 92 screening centres in the UK.
  The greatest advantage is instant communication within the grid, computer to computer and relay to relay.
  The plan is that researchers will be able to draw on the resources of the computing grid in much the same way that consumers draw electricity from a power grid.
  This grid links powerful computers in California, Texas, the Midwest and Pennsylvania.
4Electronics
An electrode placed between the cathode and anode of a thermionic valve or cathode ray tube, serving to control or modulate the flow of electrons.
Example sentencesExamples
- He put brain cells on an electrode grid, and watched them grow connections between one another.
- The carbon-platinum replicas were transferred from a finishing water bath onto copper electron microscope grids.
- Oscillating electric fields applied by grids above and below the plasma can resonantly excite its electrons.

verbɡrɪdɡrɪd

[with object]usually as adjective gridded

Put into or set out as a grid.
a core of gridded streets
Example sentencesExamples
- Starting in the late 1800s, the land of the Upper Klamath Basin - soft, high valleys sprawling on both sides of the Oregon-California state line - was gridded into 80-acre lots.
- Study sites were gridded with numbered metal stakes at 100-m intervals along the roughly linear river to determine between-year movement patterns of returning birds.
- The plain seven-story building is defined visually by its facade, gridded into modules, each of which contains an elongated window with curved corners, like that of an airplane.
- Lisa Corinne Davis is a New York-based artist who creates mostly gridded works consisting of small increments of painted or drawn imagery, collaged snippets of newspaper or diminutive digital photographs.
- All sites were gridded at 25-m intervals, which allowed me to locate and map redstart territories.
- Thereafter, surface concentrations were simply collected by placing 50 x 50 cm wooden frames gridded at 10-cm intervals over the area.
- In Edinburgh, when the New Town was enlarged, the new streets were curved, not gridded, with the objective of attaining ‘a happy union of foliage and building’.
- The aluminum ground, etched with wavering striations or gridded squares crossed with lines, can be seen through the paint.
- Some wreckage which couldn't be identified was spotted in the vicinity, after the co-ordinates they'd been given the evening before had been reached and gridded.
- As an index of nest concealment, we measured foliage density around nests, using a 0.5 x 0.5 m board gridded into 100 squares.
- The space looks modern, gridded, but one wanders through the grid like someone lost in a forest.
- A large carefully gridded window looks out over the park and further daylight is brought in through slits in wall and roof.
- Andrew Christofides's asymmetrically gridded paintings are delicately graded and modeled.
- There were 14 works in the show, the smallest measuring 8 by 10 inches, the largest an 8-by - 8-foot gridded diptych.
- The door is gridded into panels, and the larger half contains a slotted window, beneath which is a red button.
- In two of the works the surface has been irregularly gridded into a Mondrian-like architectonic structure.
- Older neighborhoods typically are gridded in at least 50-foot-wide plots; suburban yards are often much larger.
- All sites were gridded with permanent, color-coded metal stakes at either 40-or 50-m intervals to facilitate mapping of territories and nest locations.
- Once a suitable thumbnail sketch was chosen, I had my students enlarge their drawings by gridding the thumbnails into four quadrants.
- Exterior walls are gridded and perforated, resembling 3 - D graph paper or the cells of a sponge.

Phrases

off the grid

Not connected to the basic services, especially electricity.
Example sentencesExamples
- When all is said and done, getting off the grid is more than producing your own energy, it is a state of mind.
- Dan Takahashi, who runs Enersol Solar Products out of Campbellville, about one hour northwest of Toronto, cautions that getting off the grid may not be for most consumers, yet.
- Most people who are off the grid (at least those living in the United States), rely on some combination of alternative energy such as wind, photovoltaic or hydro.
- Our homes will be powered by micropower units that will allow us all to get off the grid.
- The cabin could also be equipped with a photo-voltaic system and a passive-solar water heater so that it could function off the grid.
- She now lives off the grid in a 16-by - 16-foot cabin, powered by the sun in the summer and by a Pelton wheel turbine in the winter, and has immersed her life in tree politics.
- If you are off the grid, then you will need to decide how large you want your battery bank to be.
- For all of 1993 and '94, Spek lived in his bus at the back of a vacant parking lot in Toronto's west end, finally coming to terms with Toronto winters off the grid.
- Instead, most property is owned provisionally or even illegally, which means that large numbers of people live off the grid, escaping taxes and pilfering their utilities.
- Being off the grid means not checking the endless flow of work related emails sent directly to me or to one of the any number of internal mail lists I'm on.

Origin

Mid 19th century: back-formation from gridiron.

grate from Middle English:
Grate ‘to shred’ is from Old French grater ‘grate, scratch’, of Germanic origin; it is related to German kratzen ‘to scratch’. People have being saying that something grates upon them since the early 17th century. The grate in a fire was originally a general word for ‘a grating’: it comes from Old French, based on Latin cratis ‘hurdle’, also found in griddle (Middle English), grill (mid 17th century), grille (mid 17th century), and grid (mid 19th century).

Rhymes

amid, backslid, bid, did, forbid, hid, id, kid, Kidd, lid, Madrid, mid, outbid, outdid, quid, rid, skid, slid, squid, underbid, yid

Definition of grid in US English:

grid

nounɡrɪdɡrid

1A framework of spaced bars that are parallel to or cross each other; a grating.
the metal grids had been pulled across the foyer
Example sentencesExamples
- Simple window grids prevent falls, but still let in plenty of air & sunlight.
- I look up, and stuck on any available space on the lighting grid are giant nets filled with balloons.
- The metal grid on the front panel facilitates ventilation of the device.
- Look down through the metal grid and you'll be faced with a gut-churning drop to the ground.
- The rooftop water tank is supported by a dense grid of 1m thick parallel brick walls penetrated by arches to create a series of 4m wide vaults.
- Metal exclusion grids and escape hatches are now in use in prawn fisheries around the world to stop bigger fish being wastefully killed.
- The grids are made from metal or vinyl in a color that matches the window's frame, giving the appearance of a traditional window.
- The windows on the opposite wall as the doors had metal grids with openings small enough to prevent anything bigger than the open palm of a regular human from passing through.
- A metal grid set around the edge of the pitch diffuses faint natural light into this inner sanctum.
- ‘Some of the shafts are 360 feet deep and although those near the footpaths are fenced off and protected with metal grids, the majority which are scattered all over are not,’ he said.
- The cell was empty except for a toilet in the corner, one side of the wall covered by a metal grid.
- Following complaints from villagers that the sheep were marauding through their gardens, metal road grids were installed as a deterrent.
- An armed and uniformed stranger handcuffs and takes away your parent, then places you in a police car, where you are separated from your rescuer by a metal grid.
- The only significant feature left on the premises is a strikingly tall, narrow metal grid, twisted and contorted as it faces skyward.
- The floor was a mesh of metal grids that were uncomfortable to stand on.
- Suspended ceilings are hung from the ceiling joists with a metal grid.
- The discomfort underfoot was gone, the metal grids replaced by a beige floor covering softer than sand.
- Metal decking grids rang under his feet when he stepped from the lift, drowning the hum as the door closed.
- If Ryan found himself stranded on the lower deck, he would stick his feet through the metal grid and try to unseat his smug-faced sibling from the upper bunk.
- Some were trying to lift gratings and grids in an attempt to enter the sewers whilst a few attempted to break down the doors leading into the Black Tower.
Synonyms
grating, mesh, gauze, grille, grillwork, lattice, framework, network, criss-cross
2A network of lines that cross each other to form a series of squares or rectangles.
a grid of tree-lined streets
Example sentencesExamples
- When it comes to layout, you can affix photos on the wall in a grid, spaced only a few inches apart from one another, or you can center a bigger piece in the middle of your wall.
- Beyond the close, cleared about 1800, is a bustling city, still occupying the grid of streets laid out by the bishop's planners almost 800 years ago.
- Liverpool embarked in the 1830s on a programme of squares and terraces in sober brickwork within a grid of wide streets, modelled on Dublin.
- A series of 126x68 mm grids were placed over the transparencies.
- Yet, despite the city's size and bewildering cultural mix, getting around it proves remarkably easy, with the grid of streets easily navigated by foot or subway and tram.
- Each page had a grid with 60 numbered squares on it.
- From there, a grid of cobbled streets march off into the middle distance.
- So we improvised, drawing a grid of squares and quickly writing one letter in each square.
- A digital image can be regarded as a square grid of points, or pixels, with each point having a particular shade of gray.
- Maramba was laid on a rectangular grid of streets and lanes, formerly 15 blocks in all, covering an area of less than one square kilometre.
- Your characters can only move so many spaces on the grid each turn.
- First, a single square in the grid is chosen to serve as the focal point.
- Then draw a grid of larger squares on a piece of blank paper.
- The results are then tabulated in a series of checklists or grids to indicate possible or probable health effects.
- Mondrian's style of painting involved the use of strictly horizontal or vertical black lines to create a grid of rectangles, some of which were filled in with black or white, or vivid red, blue or yellow.
- From its neat grid of streets which parallel the long waterfront, a more chaotic jumble of lanes wriggle up the hillside.
- Other than the fact that word squares and Sudoku puzzles are both arranged in square grids, they really don't have much in common.
- With the chalk line, mark a grid of roughly 30-inch squares on the concrete.
- Mathematically speaking, a cross-stitch pattern is simply a rectangular grid where some of the squares in the grid are filled with colors.
Synonyms
matrix, network, reticulation, reticulum
1. 2.1 A network of regularly spaced lines on a map that cross one another at right angles and are numbered to enable the precise location of a place.
  Example sentencesExamples
  If photography could fix images onto a precisely calibrated grid, it could become a useful tool for mapping, the primary activity of the survey.
  For example, on geographers' globes of the Earth we use a grid of latitude and longitude lines to label positions on the Earth's surface uniquely.
  I don't call in grid coordinates of my whereabouts any more.
  He made another important contribution in using a grid to locate positions of places on the Earth.
  The grid of longitude and latitude looks the same from either the ‘top’ or the ‘bottom’ of the world.
  These maps and grids will enable planning for operations in the subsequent field season.
  Essential tools include a bird identification field guide, a map of the airfield with a superimposed grid system for locating birds, and a pair of binoculars.
2. 2.2 A pattern of lines marking the starting places on a auto-racing track.
  first away from the grid
  Example sentencesExamples
  He was third on the grid, behind Schumacher and Trulli and was running third in the first half of the race.
  We time how long it takes a driver to cover a quarter mile, their speed at the end of the run and their reaction time off the grid.
  In qualifying, Ralf Schumacher could only secure 17th place on the grid.
  The officials handed Tom a penalty that meant he would be put back six places on the grid after qualifying at Brands Hatch.
  The drivers have just one lap to post a time to determine the starting grid for tomorrow's race.
  Juan Pablo Montoya will start from fourth on the grid with his team mate Ralf Schumacher lining up in seventh position.
  Maria de Villota was sixth on the starting grid and went off the track in the first lap.
  Schumacher was sixth on the grid - his lowest starting position so far - and yet he won.
  The drizzle had long since disappeared by the time Class 1 cars had settled themselves on the grid and the track remained completely dry throughout the night.
  A companion rule will also allow officials to move a driver 10 places back on the grid as punishment for driving transgressions in the previous race.
  In qualifying, both BMW Williams F1 Team drivers lined up on the front row of the grid.
  And when we start losing two, three, or four teams off the back of the grid, suddenly the whole of F1 is under threat.
  Takuma Sato made the most sensational start off the grid, stealing the limelight as he scorched his way from 7th to 4th.
  Borcheller started fifth on the GTS grid and moved up to third in the first 40 minutes of the 12-hour race.
  In contrast it was a disappointing day for Heikki, who failed to get off the grid at all after suffering a transmission problem with his Arden car.
  Actually, this is the first time you have won a Formula One race from fourth on the grid, for what that's worth.
  Galway, too, has a fine venue and up to forty drivers could be lined up on the grid on the Southern circuit.
  But that did not stop them qualifying first and second fastest on the starting grid for race one.
  ‘There are 22 drivers on the grid, and we have two of the ones that aim to win,’ says Williams of his drivers.
  The car was pulled off the grid when the team realised that the problem was still apparent and the car did not start.
3. 2.3 A football field.
3A network of cables or pipes for distributing power, especially high-voltage transmission lines for electricity.
the second reactor was not connected to the grid until 1985
Example sentencesExamples
- I wish the president and the administration would talk more about modernizing our grid.
- Nuclear power plants are connected to electricity grids in more than 30 countries and provide some 17% of the electricity consumed worldwide.
- He says the cost to upgrade the grid could run $100 billion over 10 years.
- So connect the electricity grids of east and west and one can supply the other when its own demand is low.
- Such rock-solid policies ended uncertainties about whether producers could sell their electricity into the grid and at what price.
- Another initiative is the creation of a 1,300 kilometre fibre trunk along the national power transmission grid.
- They also condemn the network of power plants that supply electricity to the grid.
- But we could alternatively send wind-turbine electricity through the grid and manufacture hydrogen locally.
- Worldport's Dublin site is also connected to the national electricity grid at two places to limit the impact of power failures.
- Yet the pumps all seem to have worked off the regular electrical grid with little or no local backup power.
- A major incident here in L.A. could shut down public infrastructure, power grids, food distribution networks, transportation arteries, and the phone lines - just to name a few.
- And I think this is an indication of the fact that we need to modernize the electricity grid.
- I mean, the networks, the information networks behind the grid, utility by utility, they don't talk to each other.
- In the short term, development experts say renewable energy systems would best help poor isolated villages without connections to electricity grids.
- Aerial photos of Sydney were found in his possession with writings and maps relating to the national electricity grids and other utilities.
- The transmission grid has been improved since then, reducing chances of another outage.
- If it's tranquillity you're after, the Spanish countryside has it in abundance, though if you don't have a good water source or a connection to the electricity grid, life can become a struggle.
- The electrical power grid is also a mess.
- As wholesale electric markets evolve, utility companies and other electric generators have greater incentive to stretch the grid to its limits to gain a competitive advantage.
- Consumers in Germany receive low-interest loans and a favorable guaranteed price when feeding excess electricity into the grid.
1. 3.1Computing A number of computers linked together via the Internet so that their combined power may be harnessed to work on difficult problems.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Not long ago - just a few years - setting up computer clusters and grids was a rough job.
  The greatest advantage is instant communication within the grid, computer to computer and relay to relay.
  The plan is that researchers will be able to draw on the resources of the computing grid in much the same way that consumers draw electricity from a power grid.
  The grid will initially link the mammogram databases of several hospitals in the UK, with the potential to include all 92 screening centres in the UK.
  This grid links powerful computers in California, Texas, the Midwest and Pennsylvania.
4Electronics
An electrode placed between the cathode and anode of a thermionic tube or cathode ray tube, serving to control or modulate the flow of electrons.
Example sentencesExamples
- Oscillating electric fields applied by grids above and below the plasma can resonantly excite its electrons.
- The carbon-platinum replicas were transferred from a finishing water bath onto copper electron microscope grids.
- He put brain cells on an electrode grid, and watched them grow connections between one another.

verbɡrɪdɡrid

[with object]usually as adjective gridded

Put into or set out as a grid.
a well-planned core of gridded streets
Example sentencesExamples
- There were 14 works in the show, the smallest measuring 8 by 10 inches, the largest an 8-by - 8-foot gridded diptych.
- Once a suitable thumbnail sketch was chosen, I had my students enlarge their drawings by gridding the thumbnails into four quadrants.
- Exterior walls are gridded and perforated, resembling 3 - D graph paper or the cells of a sponge.
- Andrew Christofides's asymmetrically gridded paintings are delicately graded and modeled.
- Thereafter, surface concentrations were simply collected by placing 50 x 50 cm wooden frames gridded at 10-cm intervals over the area.
- The plain seven-story building is defined visually by its facade, gridded into modules, each of which contains an elongated window with curved corners, like that of an airplane.
- In two of the works the surface has been irregularly gridded into a Mondrian-like architectonic structure.
- Lisa Corinne Davis is a New York-based artist who creates mostly gridded works consisting of small increments of painted or drawn imagery, collaged snippets of newspaper or diminutive digital photographs.
- Older neighborhoods typically are gridded in at least 50-foot-wide plots; suburban yards are often much larger.
- All sites were gridded at 25-m intervals, which allowed me to locate and map redstart territories.
- Starting in the late 1800s, the land of the Upper Klamath Basin - soft, high valleys sprawling on both sides of the Oregon-California state line - was gridded into 80-acre lots.
- The aluminum ground, etched with wavering striations or gridded squares crossed with lines, can be seen through the paint.
- In Edinburgh, when the New Town was enlarged, the new streets were curved, not gridded, with the objective of attaining ‘a happy union of foliage and building’.
- All sites were gridded with permanent, color-coded metal stakes at either 40-or 50-m intervals to facilitate mapping of territories and nest locations.
- The space looks modern, gridded, but one wanders through the grid like someone lost in a forest.
- Study sites were gridded with numbered metal stakes at 100-m intervals along the roughly linear river to determine between-year movement patterns of returning birds.
- Some wreckage which couldn't be identified was spotted in the vicinity, after the co-ordinates they'd been given the evening before had been reached and gridded.
- A large carefully gridded window looks out over the park and further daylight is brought in through slits in wall and roof.
- As an index of nest concealment, we measured foliage density around nests, using a 0.5 x 0.5 m board gridded into 100 squares.
- The door is gridded into panels, and the larger half contains a slotted window, beneath which is a red button.

Phrases

off the grid

Not dependent on public utilities, especially the supply of electricity.
people living off the grid had begun using wind turbines
Example sentencesExamples
- First, I found that living off the grid wasn't very hard; it was actually quite fun.
- Langer suggests building small hydro plants along fast-flowing streams to supply power to farms that are off the grid.
- Jan Hopkins reports on those who were off the grid during the worst blackout in our country's history.
- They are among a small, but growing, number of Americans who live "off the grid."
- Most of our employees either live off the grid or have grid-tied renewable energy systems in their homes.
- Additionally, the entire two days of performances in New York City on Randall's Island will be run "off the grid."
- Our homes will be powered by micropower units that will allow us all to get off the grid.
- With its own co-generation plant, the facility will be completely off the grid.
- Congratulate me on having endured my 70th hour off the grid.
- They move to communes, give up electricity, move off the grid.

Origin

Mid 19th century: back-formation from gridiron.

单词	grid
释义	Definition of grid in English: grid noun ɡrɪdɡrɪd 1A framework of spaced bars that are parallel to or cross each other; a grating. the metal grids had been pulled across the foyer Example sentencesExamples The rooftop water tank is supported by a dense grid of 1m thick parallel brick walls penetrated by arches to create a series of 4m wide vaults. The floor was a mesh of metal grids that were uncomfortable to stand on. ‘Some of the shafts are 360 feet deep and although those near the footpaths are fenced off and protected with metal grids, the majority which are scattered all over are not,’ he said. Some were trying to lift gratings and grids in an attempt to enter the sewers whilst a few attempted to break down the doors leading into the Black Tower. The windows on the opposite wall as the doors had metal grids with openings small enough to prevent anything bigger than the open palm of a regular human from passing through. I look up, and stuck on any available space on the lighting grid are giant nets filled with balloons. The only significant feature left on the premises is a strikingly tall, narrow metal grid, twisted and contorted as it faces skyward. Metal exclusion grids and escape hatches are now in use in prawn fisheries around the world to stop bigger fish being wastefully killed. If Ryan found himself stranded on the lower deck, he would stick his feet through the metal grid and try to unseat his smug-faced sibling from the upper bunk. Look down through the metal grid and you'll be faced with a gut-churning drop to the ground. Simple window grids prevent falls, but still let in plenty of air & sunlight. The cell was empty except for a toilet in the corner, one side of the wall covered by a metal grid. A metal grid set around the edge of the pitch diffuses faint natural light into this inner sanctum. The discomfort underfoot was gone, the metal grids replaced by a beige floor covering softer than sand. Following complaints from villagers that the sheep were marauding through their gardens, metal road grids were installed as a deterrent. Metal decking grids rang under his feet when he stepped from the lift, drowning the hum as the door closed. Suspended ceilings are hung from the ceiling joists with a metal grid. The grids are made from metal or vinyl in a color that matches the window's frame, giving the appearance of a traditional window. The metal grid on the front panel facilitates ventilation of the device. An armed and uniformed stranger handcuffs and takes away your parent, then places you in a police car, where you are separated from your rescuer by a metal grid. Synonyms grating, mesh, gauze, grille, grillwork, lattice, framework, network, criss-cross 2A network of lines that cross each other to form a series of squares or rectangles. a grid of tree-lined streets Example sentencesExamples Then draw a grid of larger squares on a piece of blank paper. Maramba was laid on a rectangular grid of streets and lanes, formerly 15 blocks in all, covering an area of less than one square kilometre. So we improvised, drawing a grid of squares and quickly writing one letter in each square. A digital image can be regarded as a square grid of points, or pixels, with each point having a particular shade of gray. From its neat grid of streets which parallel the long waterfront, a more chaotic jumble of lanes wriggle up the hillside. Other than the fact that word squares and Sudoku puzzles are both arranged in square grids, they really don't have much in common. Mathematically speaking, a cross-stitch pattern is simply a rectangular grid where some of the squares in the grid are filled with colors. Mondrian's style of painting involved the use of strictly horizontal or vertical black lines to create a grid of rectangles, some of which were filled in with black or white, or vivid red, blue or yellow. The results are then tabulated in a series of checklists or grids to indicate possible or probable health effects. First, a single square in the grid is chosen to serve as the focal point. Beyond the close, cleared about 1800, is a bustling city, still occupying the grid of streets laid out by the bishop's planners almost 800 years ago. With the chalk line, mark a grid of roughly 30-inch squares on the concrete. Yet, despite the city's size and bewildering cultural mix, getting around it proves remarkably easy, with the grid of streets easily navigated by foot or subway and tram. A series of 126x68 mm grids were placed over the transparencies. When it comes to layout, you can affix photos on the wall in a grid, spaced only a few inches apart from one another, or you can center a bigger piece in the middle of your wall. Liverpool embarked in the 1830s on a programme of squares and terraces in sober brickwork within a grid of wide streets, modelled on Dublin. Your characters can only move so many spaces on the grid each turn. From there, a grid of cobbled streets march off into the middle distance. Each page had a grid with 60 numbered squares on it. Synonyms matrix, network, reticulation, reticulum technical plexus, decussation, graticule 2.1 A grid of regular squares on a map that are marked with numbers or letters to enable a place to be precisely located. Example sentencesExamples I don't call in grid coordinates of my whereabouts any more. The grid of longitude and latitude looks the same from either the ‘top’ or the ‘bottom’ of the world. These maps and grids will enable planning for operations in the subsequent field season. Essential tools include a bird identification field guide, a map of the airfield with a superimposed grid system for locating birds, and a pair of binoculars. For example, on geographers' globes of the Earth we use a grid of latitude and longitude lines to label positions on the Earth's surface uniquely. He made another important contribution in using a grid to locate positions of places on the Earth. If photography could fix images onto a precisely calibrated grid, it could become a useful tool for mapping, the primary activity of the survey. 2.2 A pattern of lines marking the starting places on a motor-racing track. the 20-year-old didn't get the best of starts off the grid Example sentencesExamples But that did not stop them qualifying first and second fastest on the starting grid for race one. In qualifying, Ralf Schumacher could only secure 17th place on the grid. The drizzle had long since disappeared by the time Class 1 cars had settled themselves on the grid and the track remained completely dry throughout the night. Schumacher was sixth on the grid - his lowest starting position so far - and yet he won. A companion rule will also allow officials to move a driver 10 places back on the grid as punishment for driving transgressions in the previous race. He was third on the grid, behind Schumacher and Trulli and was running third in the first half of the race. ‘There are 22 drivers on the grid, and we have two of the ones that aim to win,’ says Williams of his drivers. Maria de Villota was sixth on the starting grid and went off the track in the first lap. Juan Pablo Montoya will start from fourth on the grid with his team mate Ralf Schumacher lining up in seventh position. The officials handed Tom a penalty that meant he would be put back six places on the grid after qualifying at Brands Hatch. Borcheller started fifth on the GTS grid and moved up to third in the first 40 minutes of the 12-hour race. The car was pulled off the grid when the team realised that the problem was still apparent and the car did not start. The drivers have just one lap to post a time to determine the starting grid for tomorrow's race. Galway, too, has a fine venue and up to forty drivers could be lined up on the grid on the Southern circuit. Actually, this is the first time you have won a Formula One race from fourth on the grid, for what that's worth. In contrast it was a disappointing day for Heikki, who failed to get off the grid at all after suffering a transmission problem with his Arden car. Takuma Sato made the most sensational start off the grid, stealing the limelight as he scorched his way from 7th to 4th. In qualifying, both BMW Williams F1 Team drivers lined up on the front row of the grid. And when we start losing two, three, or four teams off the back of the grid, suddenly the whole of F1 is under threat. We time how long it takes a driver to cover a quarter mile, their speed at the end of the run and their reaction time off the grid. 2.3 A field for American football; a gridiron. 3A network of cables or pipes for distributing power, especially high-voltage transmission lines for electricity. the reactor was connected to the grid in 1985 Example sentencesExamples The transmission grid has been improved since then, reducing chances of another outage. He says the cost to upgrade the grid could run $100 billion over 10 years. As wholesale electric markets evolve, utility companies and other electric generators have greater incentive to stretch the grid to its limits to gain a competitive advantage. In the short term, development experts say renewable energy systems would best help poor isolated villages without connections to electricity grids. Yet the pumps all seem to have worked off the regular electrical grid with little or no local backup power. If it's tranquillity you're after, the Spanish countryside has it in abundance, though if you don't have a good water source or a connection to the electricity grid, life can become a struggle. I wish the president and the administration would talk more about modernizing our grid. Nuclear power plants are connected to electricity grids in more than 30 countries and provide some 17% of the electricity consumed worldwide. The electrical power grid is also a mess. Aerial photos of Sydney were found in his possession with writings and maps relating to the national electricity grids and other utilities. Another initiative is the creation of a 1,300 kilometre fibre trunk along the national power transmission grid. I mean, the networks, the information networks behind the grid, utility by utility, they don't talk to each other. Consumers in Germany receive low-interest loans and a favorable guaranteed price when feeding excess electricity into the grid. They also condemn the network of power plants that supply electricity to the grid. Such rock-solid policies ended uncertainties about whether producers could sell their electricity into the grid and at what price. So connect the electricity grids of east and west and one can supply the other when its own demand is low. But we could alternatively send wind-turbine electricity through the grid and manufacture hydrogen locally. A major incident here in L.A. could shut down public infrastructure, power grids, food distribution networks, transportation arteries, and the phone lines - just to name a few. And I think this is an indication of the fact that we need to modernize the electricity grid. Worldport's Dublin site is also connected to the national electricity grid at two places to limit the impact of power failures. 3.1Computing A number of computers linked together via the Internet so that their combined power may be harnessed to work on difficult problems. Example sentencesExamples Not long ago - just a few years - setting up computer clusters and grids was a rough job. The grid will initially link the mammogram databases of several hospitals in the UK, with the potential to include all 92 screening centres in the UK. The greatest advantage is instant communication within the grid, computer to computer and relay to relay. The plan is that researchers will be able to draw on the resources of the computing grid in much the same way that consumers draw electricity from a power grid. This grid links powerful computers in California, Texas, the Midwest and Pennsylvania. 4Electronics An electrode placed between the cathode and anode of a thermionic valve or cathode ray tube, serving to control or modulate the flow of electrons. Example sentencesExamples He put brain cells on an electrode grid, and watched them grow connections between one another. The carbon-platinum replicas were transferred from a finishing water bath onto copper electron microscope grids. Oscillating electric fields applied by grids above and below the plasma can resonantly excite its electrons. verbɡrɪdɡrɪd [with object]usually as adjective gridded Put into or set out as a grid. a core of gridded streets Example sentencesExamples Starting in the late 1800s, the land of the Upper Klamath Basin - soft, high valleys sprawling on both sides of the Oregon-California state line - was gridded into 80-acre lots. Study sites were gridded with numbered metal stakes at 100-m intervals along the roughly linear river to determine between-year movement patterns of returning birds. The plain seven-story building is defined visually by its facade, gridded into modules, each of which contains an elongated window with curved corners, like that of an airplane. Lisa Corinne Davis is a New York-based artist who creates mostly gridded works consisting of small increments of painted or drawn imagery, collaged snippets of newspaper or diminutive digital photographs. All sites were gridded at 25-m intervals, which allowed me to locate and map redstart territories. Thereafter, surface concentrations were simply collected by placing 50 x 50 cm wooden frames gridded at 10-cm intervals over the area. In Edinburgh, when the New Town was enlarged, the new streets were curved, not gridded, with the objective of attaining ‘a happy union of foliage and building’. The aluminum ground, etched with wavering striations or gridded squares crossed with lines, can be seen through the paint. Some wreckage which couldn't be identified was spotted in the vicinity, after the co-ordinates they'd been given the evening before had been reached and gridded. As an index of nest concealment, we measured foliage density around nests, using a 0.5 x 0.5 m board gridded into 100 squares. The space looks modern, gridded, but one wanders through the grid like someone lost in a forest. A large carefully gridded window looks out over the park and further daylight is brought in through slits in wall and roof. Andrew Christofides's asymmetrically gridded paintings are delicately graded and modeled. There were 14 works in the show, the smallest measuring 8 by 10 inches, the largest an 8-by - 8-foot gridded diptych. The door is gridded into panels, and the larger half contains a slotted window, beneath which is a red button. In two of the works the surface has been irregularly gridded into a Mondrian-like architectonic structure. Older neighborhoods typically are gridded in at least 50-foot-wide plots; suburban yards are often much larger. All sites were gridded with permanent, color-coded metal stakes at either 40-or 50-m intervals to facilitate mapping of territories and nest locations. Once a suitable thumbnail sketch was chosen, I had my students enlarge their drawings by gridding the thumbnails into four quadrants. Exterior walls are gridded and perforated, resembling 3 - D graph paper or the cells of a sponge. Phrases off the grid Not connected to the basic services, especially electricity. Example sentencesExamples When all is said and done, getting off the grid is more than producing your own energy, it is a state of mind. Dan Takahashi, who runs Enersol Solar Products out of Campbellville, about one hour northwest of Toronto, cautions that getting off the grid may not be for most consumers, yet. Most people who are off the grid (at least those living in the United States), rely on some combination of alternative energy such as wind, photovoltaic or hydro. Our homes will be powered by micropower units that will allow us all to get off the grid. The cabin could also be equipped with a photo-voltaic system and a passive-solar water heater so that it could function off the grid. She now lives off the grid in a 16-by - 16-foot cabin, powered by the sun in the summer and by a Pelton wheel turbine in the winter, and has immersed her life in tree politics. If you are off the grid, then you will need to decide how large you want your battery bank to be. For all of 1993 and '94, Spek lived in his bus at the back of a vacant parking lot in Toronto's west end, finally coming to terms with Toronto winters off the grid. Instead, most property is owned provisionally or even illegally, which means that large numbers of people live off the grid, escaping taxes and pilfering their utilities. Being off the grid means not checking the endless flow of work related emails sent directly to me or to one of the any number of internal mail lists I'm on. Origin Mid 19th century: back-formation from gridiron. grate from Middle English: Grate ‘to shred’ is from Old French grater ‘grate, scratch’, of Germanic origin; it is related to German kratzen ‘to scratch’. People have being saying that something grates upon them since the early 17th century. The grate in a fire was originally a general word for ‘a grating’: it comes from Old French, based on Latin cratis ‘hurdle’, also found in griddle (Middle English), grill (mid 17th century), grille (mid 17th century), and grid (mid 19th century). Rhymes amid, backslid, bid, did, forbid, hid, id, kid, Kidd, lid, Madrid, mid, outbid, outdid, quid, rid, skid, slid, squid, underbid, yid noun.1 phr. Definition of grid in US English: grid nounɡrɪdɡrid 1A framework of spaced bars that are parallel to or cross each other; a grating. the metal grids had been pulled across the foyer Example sentencesExamples Simple window grids prevent falls, but still let in plenty of air & sunlight. I look up, and stuck on any available space on the lighting grid are giant nets filled with balloons. The metal grid on the front panel facilitates ventilation of the device. Look down through the metal grid and you'll be faced with a gut-churning drop to the ground. The rooftop water tank is supported by a dense grid of 1m thick parallel brick walls penetrated by arches to create a series of 4m wide vaults. Metal exclusion grids and escape hatches are now in use in prawn fisheries around the world to stop bigger fish being wastefully killed. The grids are made from metal or vinyl in a color that matches the window's frame, giving the appearance of a traditional window. The windows on the opposite wall as the doors had metal grids with openings small enough to prevent anything bigger than the open palm of a regular human from passing through. A metal grid set around the edge of the pitch diffuses faint natural light into this inner sanctum. ‘Some of the shafts are 360 feet deep and although those near the footpaths are fenced off and protected with metal grids, the majority which are scattered all over are not,’ he said. The cell was empty except for a toilet in the corner, one side of the wall covered by a metal grid. Following complaints from villagers that the sheep were marauding through their gardens, metal road grids were installed as a deterrent. An armed and uniformed stranger handcuffs and takes away your parent, then places you in a police car, where you are separated from your rescuer by a metal grid. The only significant feature left on the premises is a strikingly tall, narrow metal grid, twisted and contorted as it faces skyward. The floor was a mesh of metal grids that were uncomfortable to stand on. Suspended ceilings are hung from the ceiling joists with a metal grid. The discomfort underfoot was gone, the metal grids replaced by a beige floor covering softer than sand. Metal decking grids rang under his feet when he stepped from the lift, drowning the hum as the door closed. If Ryan found himself stranded on the lower deck, he would stick his feet through the metal grid and try to unseat his smug-faced sibling from the upper bunk. Some were trying to lift gratings and grids in an attempt to enter the sewers whilst a few attempted to break down the doors leading into the Black Tower. Synonyms grating, mesh, gauze, grille, grillwork, lattice, framework, network, criss-cross 2A network of lines that cross each other to form a series of squares or rectangles. a grid of tree-lined streets Example sentencesExamples When it comes to layout, you can affix photos on the wall in a grid, spaced only a few inches apart from one another, or you can center a bigger piece in the middle of your wall. Beyond the close, cleared about 1800, is a bustling city, still occupying the grid of streets laid out by the bishop's planners almost 800 years ago. Liverpool embarked in the 1830s on a programme of squares and terraces in sober brickwork within a grid of wide streets, modelled on Dublin. A series of 126x68 mm grids were placed over the transparencies. Yet, despite the city's size and bewildering cultural mix, getting around it proves remarkably easy, with the grid of streets easily navigated by foot or subway and tram. Each page had a grid with 60 numbered squares on it. From there, a grid of cobbled streets march off into the middle distance. So we improvised, drawing a grid of squares and quickly writing one letter in each square. A digital image can be regarded as a square grid of points, or pixels, with each point having a particular shade of gray. Maramba was laid on a rectangular grid of streets and lanes, formerly 15 blocks in all, covering an area of less than one square kilometre. Your characters can only move so many spaces on the grid each turn. First, a single square in the grid is chosen to serve as the focal point. Then draw a grid of larger squares on a piece of blank paper. The results are then tabulated in a series of checklists or grids to indicate possible or probable health effects. Mondrian's style of painting involved the use of strictly horizontal or vertical black lines to create a grid of rectangles, some of which were filled in with black or white, or vivid red, blue or yellow. From its neat grid of streets which parallel the long waterfront, a more chaotic jumble of lanes wriggle up the hillside. Other than the fact that word squares and Sudoku puzzles are both arranged in square grids, they really don't have much in common. With the chalk line, mark a grid of roughly 30-inch squares on the concrete. Mathematically speaking, a cross-stitch pattern is simply a rectangular grid where some of the squares in the grid are filled with colors. Synonyms matrix, network, reticulation, reticulum 2.1 A network of regularly spaced lines on a map that cross one another at right angles and are numbered to enable the precise location of a place. Example sentencesExamples If photography could fix images onto a precisely calibrated grid, it could become a useful tool for mapping, the primary activity of the survey. For example, on geographers' globes of the Earth we use a grid of latitude and longitude lines to label positions on the Earth's surface uniquely. I don't call in grid coordinates of my whereabouts any more. He made another important contribution in using a grid to locate positions of places on the Earth. The grid of longitude and latitude looks the same from either the ‘top’ or the ‘bottom’ of the world. These maps and grids will enable planning for operations in the subsequent field season. Essential tools include a bird identification field guide, a map of the airfield with a superimposed grid system for locating birds, and a pair of binoculars. 2.2 A pattern of lines marking the starting places on a auto-racing track. first away from the grid Example sentencesExamples He was third on the grid, behind Schumacher and Trulli and was running third in the first half of the race. We time how long it takes a driver to cover a quarter mile, their speed at the end of the run and their reaction time off the grid. In qualifying, Ralf Schumacher could only secure 17th place on the grid. The officials handed Tom a penalty that meant he would be put back six places on the grid after qualifying at Brands Hatch. The drivers have just one lap to post a time to determine the starting grid for tomorrow's race. Juan Pablo Montoya will start from fourth on the grid with his team mate Ralf Schumacher lining up in seventh position. Maria de Villota was sixth on the starting grid and went off the track in the first lap. Schumacher was sixth on the grid - his lowest starting position so far - and yet he won. The drizzle had long since disappeared by the time Class 1 cars had settled themselves on the grid and the track remained completely dry throughout the night. A companion rule will also allow officials to move a driver 10 places back on the grid as punishment for driving transgressions in the previous race. In qualifying, both BMW Williams F1 Team drivers lined up on the front row of the grid. And when we start losing two, three, or four teams off the back of the grid, suddenly the whole of F1 is under threat. Takuma Sato made the most sensational start off the grid, stealing the limelight as he scorched his way from 7th to 4th. Borcheller started fifth on the GTS grid and moved up to third in the first 40 minutes of the 12-hour race. In contrast it was a disappointing day for Heikki, who failed to get off the grid at all after suffering a transmission problem with his Arden car. Actually, this is the first time you have won a Formula One race from fourth on the grid, for what that's worth. Galway, too, has a fine venue and up to forty drivers could be lined up on the grid on the Southern circuit. But that did not stop them qualifying first and second fastest on the starting grid for race one. ‘There are 22 drivers on the grid, and we have two of the ones that aim to win,’ says Williams of his drivers. The car was pulled off the grid when the team realised that the problem was still apparent and the car did not start. 2.3 A football field. 3A network of cables or pipes for distributing power, especially high-voltage transmission lines for electricity. the second reactor was not connected to the grid until 1985 Example sentencesExamples I wish the president and the administration would talk more about modernizing our grid. Nuclear power plants are connected to electricity grids in more than 30 countries and provide some 17% of the electricity consumed worldwide. He says the cost to upgrade the grid could run $100 billion over 10 years. So connect the electricity grids of east and west and one can supply the other when its own demand is low. Such rock-solid policies ended uncertainties about whether producers could sell their electricity into the grid and at what price. Another initiative is the creation of a 1,300 kilometre fibre trunk along the national power transmission grid. They also condemn the network of power plants that supply electricity to the grid. But we could alternatively send wind-turbine electricity through the grid and manufacture hydrogen locally. Worldport's Dublin site is also connected to the national electricity grid at two places to limit the impact of power failures. Yet the pumps all seem to have worked off the regular electrical grid with little or no local backup power. A major incident here in L.A. could shut down public infrastructure, power grids, food distribution networks, transportation arteries, and the phone lines - just to name a few. And I think this is an indication of the fact that we need to modernize the electricity grid. I mean, the networks, the information networks behind the grid, utility by utility, they don't talk to each other. In the short term, development experts say renewable energy systems would best help poor isolated villages without connections to electricity grids. Aerial photos of Sydney were found in his possession with writings and maps relating to the national electricity grids and other utilities. The transmission grid has been improved since then, reducing chances of another outage. If it's tranquillity you're after, the Spanish countryside has it in abundance, though if you don't have a good water source or a connection to the electricity grid, life can become a struggle. The electrical power grid is also a mess. As wholesale electric markets evolve, utility companies and other electric generators have greater incentive to stretch the grid to its limits to gain a competitive advantage. Consumers in Germany receive low-interest loans and a favorable guaranteed price when feeding excess electricity into the grid. 3.1Computing A number of computers linked together via the Internet so that their combined power may be harnessed to work on difficult problems. Example sentencesExamples Not long ago - just a few years - setting up computer clusters and grids was a rough job. The greatest advantage is instant communication within the grid, computer to computer and relay to relay. The plan is that researchers will be able to draw on the resources of the computing grid in much the same way that consumers draw electricity from a power grid. The grid will initially link the mammogram databases of several hospitals in the UK, with the potential to include all 92 screening centres in the UK. This grid links powerful computers in California, Texas, the Midwest and Pennsylvania. 4Electronics An electrode placed between the cathode and anode of a thermionic tube or cathode ray tube, serving to control or modulate the flow of electrons. Example sentencesExamples Oscillating electric fields applied by grids above and below the plasma can resonantly excite its electrons. The carbon-platinum replicas were transferred from a finishing water bath onto copper electron microscope grids. He put brain cells on an electrode grid, and watched them grow connections between one another. verbɡrɪdɡrid [with object]usually as adjective gridded Put into or set out as a grid. a well-planned core of gridded streets Example sentencesExamples There were 14 works in the show, the smallest measuring 8 by 10 inches, the largest an 8-by - 8-foot gridded diptych. Once a suitable thumbnail sketch was chosen, I had my students enlarge their drawings by gridding the thumbnails into four quadrants. Exterior walls are gridded and perforated, resembling 3 - D graph paper or the cells of a sponge. Andrew Christofides's asymmetrically gridded paintings are delicately graded and modeled. Thereafter, surface concentrations were simply collected by placing 50 x 50 cm wooden frames gridded at 10-cm intervals over the area. The plain seven-story building is defined visually by its facade, gridded into modules, each of which contains an elongated window with curved corners, like that of an airplane. In two of the works the surface has been irregularly gridded into a Mondrian-like architectonic structure. Lisa Corinne Davis is a New York-based artist who creates mostly gridded works consisting of small increments of painted or drawn imagery, collaged snippets of newspaper or diminutive digital photographs. Older neighborhoods typically are gridded in at least 50-foot-wide plots; suburban yards are often much larger. All sites were gridded at 25-m intervals, which allowed me to locate and map redstart territories. Starting in the late 1800s, the land of the Upper Klamath Basin - soft, high valleys sprawling on both sides of the Oregon-California state line - was gridded into 80-acre lots. The aluminum ground, etched with wavering striations or gridded squares crossed with lines, can be seen through the paint. In Edinburgh, when the New Town was enlarged, the new streets were curved, not gridded, with the objective of attaining ‘a happy union of foliage and building’. All sites were gridded with permanent, color-coded metal stakes at either 40-or 50-m intervals to facilitate mapping of territories and nest locations. The space looks modern, gridded, but one wanders through the grid like someone lost in a forest. Study sites were gridded with numbered metal stakes at 100-m intervals along the roughly linear river to determine between-year movement patterns of returning birds. Some wreckage which couldn't be identified was spotted in the vicinity, after the co-ordinates they'd been given the evening before had been reached and gridded. A large carefully gridded window looks out over the park and further daylight is brought in through slits in wall and roof. As an index of nest concealment, we measured foliage density around nests, using a 0.5 x 0.5 m board gridded into 100 squares. The door is gridded into panels, and the larger half contains a slotted window, beneath which is a red button. Phrases off the grid Not dependent on public utilities, especially the supply of electricity. people living off the grid had begun using wind turbines Example sentencesExamples First, I found that living off the grid wasn't very hard; it was actually quite fun. Langer suggests building small hydro plants along fast-flowing streams to supply power to farms that are off the grid. Jan Hopkins reports on those who were off the grid during the worst blackout in our country's history. They are among a small, but growing, number of Americans who live "off the grid." Most of our employees either live off the grid or have grid-tied renewable energy systems in their homes. Additionally, the entire two days of performances in New York City on Randall's Island will be run "off the grid." Our homes will be powered by micropower units that will allow us all to get off the grid. With its own co-generation plant, the facility will be completely off the grid. Congratulate me on having endured my 70th hour off the grid. They move to communes, give up electricity, move off the grid. Origin Mid 19th century: back-formation from gridiron. noun.1 phr.
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