Definition of gridiron in English:

gridiron

noun ˈɡrɪdʌɪənˈɡrɪdˌaɪ(ə)rn

1A frame of parallel bars or beams, typically in two sets forming a grid.
1. 1.1 A frame of parallel metal bars used for grilling meat or fish over an open fire.
  Example sentencesExamples
  By the early 1800's, gridirons were not used as much as most homes had begun using kitchen stoves upon which to cook.
  Show vegetarians the courtesy of either a separate barbecue or a fresh gridiron.
2. 1.2 A frame of parallel beams for supporting a ship in dock.
3. 1.3 (in the theatre) a framework over a stage supporting scenery and lighting.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The stage is equipped with traps, a fly loft, lights, ladders and the height from stage to gridiron is 40 feet.
2A field for American football, marked with regularly spaced parallel lines.
Example sentencesExamples
- 2K5 is no exception to this commemoration, and it includes some of the classic football moments ever seen on a gridiron.
- The BCA's and Cochran's positions basically come down to pressuring college administrators into allowing more African Americans to lead their teams on the gridiron.
- He was a black college athlete as gifted academically as on the gridiron.
- For nine years Esera Tuaolo played in the National Football League, running onto gridirons to the roar of thousands of fans.
- It doesn't much resemble the game that we have been watching for the past 20 weeks on NFL gridirons, but that doesn't mean that the players are playing hard.
- A finer man and a better coach never hit these United States, and a finer bunch of boys, never graced the gridirons of the Midwest, than that Iowa team in 1939.
- Since the 1960s, the gridiron, baseball field, basketball court, and boxing ring have spawned legions of entrepreneurs who sought to compete in the business arena.
- More than 200 motion pictures have been made using the gridiron as a backdrop.
- Giants TE Jeremy Shockey was named the NFL's Rookie of the Year Wednesday, capping off a season in which his production on the field was often overshadowed by his antics off the gridiron.
- Next month we take a look at athletes who have demonstrated business savvy by developing thriving enterprises while still making moves on the gridiron, baseball field, or basketball court.
- He certainly is focused on being the best defensive end the game has ever known, but his life doesn't begin and end on the gridiron.
- Formed 20 years ago in Colchester, the Gladiators American football team will be pounding the gridiron for a match against the Essex University team, the Essex Blades.
- No longer content with ruling the wrestling world, McMahon embarked on a new ‘turf war,’ this time on the gridiron.
- He imagined the gridiron was a chessboard and that he was playing against the other team's coaching staff.
- The NFL is filled with really bright people who have their lives in order and are interested in just doing a good job and pursuing excellence on the gridiron.
- For the remainder of his playing days, Barnes made notes and sketches at the end of each game about things he felt and saw on the gridiron.
- Players knocked unconscious on the gridiron are often hit in the same vulnerable area of head.
- And if their skills can equal their enthusiasm and desire, you may be seeing more and more women on the gridiron catching touchdown passes instead of on the sidelines cheering on the players.
- But you can't deny this: He was the ultimate field general, moving his teammates across the gridiron as if they were chess pieces.
- Despite appearing on the gridiron in only a trio of games, his numbers reflect the impact he can have on a game's outcome.
1. 2.1North American mass noun The sport of American football.
  as modifier the national gridiron season
  Example sentencesExamples
  All over America, gridiron fans sat on their couches, cracked open another Bud, and awaited the conclusion.
  Once a collegiate football superstar destined for gridiron greatness until an auto accident ended his athletic career, David now slogs through his dull gray day-to-day, a real nowhere man living in a nowhere land.
  Young, gifted and black, Jordan was the perfect role model for a generation of young black men, and sent basketball rocketing ahead of baseball and into competition with gridiron as America's game of choice.
  And so Canton, Ohio, an hour south of Cleveland - not all that far from Akron and the NEC World Golf Championship - is famed as the birthplace of professional gridiron football.
  A former wrestler and gridiron player in Canada, he moved to Britain to study at Oxford University, where he earned three blues and a degree in history.
  Condensing the playoffs would also avoid competition with the World Series, National Football League games, and college gridiron games.
  If you're used to the pace of AFL or rugby union, then watching gridiron is like chess with helmets - lots of waiting around for five seconds of flurried activity.
  In small communities like the one in which I was raised generations of former gridiron warriors fill the bleachers to watch their sons and grandsons battle the descendants of their own regional foes.
  These days the vast majority of professional gridiron, and basketball teams in America employ cheerleaders, and there's no doubt that they are viewed by most players and fans as mere sex objects.
  Fret not, gridiron fans - college football returns in a little over seven months, and a dozen teams already look like contenders…
  The National Football League and city of Los Angeles officials have reached a preliminary agreement on terms to bring a pro gridiron team back to the Los Angeles Coliseum.
  And turn on the TV, I think that American gridiron Superbowl grand final is on today.
  There has been a global trend for television rights to fetch lower prices in recent years, with News Corp. writing down the value of contracts for gridiron, Major League Baseball and Nascar.
  And let's make the distinction clear: American football, or gridiron, or whatever you want to call it, is football.
  Until the rise of professional gridiron football in the 1950s it had no rival.
  It has also become common practice in basketball, gridiron and other major sports in the United States.
  What's interesting to me here is the importance of sport to Americans and Brits, particularly football - gridiron and/or soccer.
  Tennis is in crisis in the US, and is in danger of being overwhelmed by the blanket coverage awarded to baseball, basketball and gridiron.
  As a result, he has given ordinary guys who share his love for the sport a chance to be gridiron legends.
  We look on baseball and gridiron as the quintessential American sports, but in truth these days, all sports are American sports.
3A grid pattern, especially of streets.
Example sentencesExamples
- It is in America that the gridiron streetplan beloved of countless utopians has had its most rampant expression.

Origin

Middle English gredire, alteration of gredile 'griddle' by association with iron.

Rhymes

midiron

Definition of gridiron in US English:

gridiron

nounˈɡrɪdˌaɪ(ə)rnˈɡridˌī(ə)rn

1A frame of parallel bars or beams, typically in two sets arranged at right angles.
1. 1.1 A frame of parallel metal bars used for grilling meat or fish over an open fire.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Show vegetarians the courtesy of either a separate barbecue or a fresh gridiron.
  By the early 1800's, gridirons were not used as much as most homes had begun using kitchen stoves upon which to cook.
2. 1.2 A frame of parallel beams for supporting a ship in dock.
3. 1.3 (in the theater) a framework over a stage supporting scenery and lighting.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The stage is equipped with traps, a fly loft, lights, ladders and the height from stage to gridiron is 40 feet.
2A field for football, marked with regularly spaced parallel lines.
Example sentencesExamples
- He certainly is focused on being the best defensive end the game has ever known, but his life doesn't begin and end on the gridiron.
- But you can't deny this: He was the ultimate field general, moving his teammates across the gridiron as if they were chess pieces.
- No longer content with ruling the wrestling world, McMahon embarked on a new ‘turf war,’ this time on the gridiron.
- Giants TE Jeremy Shockey was named the NFL's Rookie of the Year Wednesday, capping off a season in which his production on the field was often overshadowed by his antics off the gridiron.
- The NFL is filled with really bright people who have their lives in order and are interested in just doing a good job and pursuing excellence on the gridiron.
- For nine years Esera Tuaolo played in the National Football League, running onto gridirons to the roar of thousands of fans.
- Since the 1960s, the gridiron, baseball field, basketball court, and boxing ring have spawned legions of entrepreneurs who sought to compete in the business arena.
- Despite appearing on the gridiron in only a trio of games, his numbers reflect the impact he can have on a game's outcome.
- A finer man and a better coach never hit these United States, and a finer bunch of boys, never graced the gridirons of the Midwest, than that Iowa team in 1939.
- 2K5 is no exception to this commemoration, and it includes some of the classic football moments ever seen on a gridiron.
- Next month we take a look at athletes who have demonstrated business savvy by developing thriving enterprises while still making moves on the gridiron, baseball field, or basketball court.
- It doesn't much resemble the game that we have been watching for the past 20 weeks on NFL gridirons, but that doesn't mean that the players are playing hard.
- And if their skills can equal their enthusiasm and desire, you may be seeing more and more women on the gridiron catching touchdown passes instead of on the sidelines cheering on the players.
- For the remainder of his playing days, Barnes made notes and sketches at the end of each game about things he felt and saw on the gridiron.
- The BCA's and Cochran's positions basically come down to pressuring college administrators into allowing more African Americans to lead their teams on the gridiron.
- Players knocked unconscious on the gridiron are often hit in the same vulnerable area of head.
- He was a black college athlete as gifted academically as on the gridiron.
- More than 200 motion pictures have been made using the gridiron as a backdrop.
- He imagined the gridiron was a chessboard and that he was playing against the other team's coaching staff.
- Formed 20 years ago in Colchester, the Gladiators American football team will be pounding the gridiron for a match against the Essex University team, the Essex Blades.
1. 2.1North American The game of football.
  as modifier the national gridiron season
  Example sentencesExamples
  Until the rise of professional gridiron football in the 1950s it had no rival.
  And turn on the TV, I think that American gridiron Superbowl grand final is on today.
  These days the vast majority of professional gridiron, and basketball teams in America employ cheerleaders, and there's no doubt that they are viewed by most players and fans as mere sex objects.
  A former wrestler and gridiron player in Canada, he moved to Britain to study at Oxford University, where he earned three blues and a degree in history.
  In small communities like the one in which I was raised generations of former gridiron warriors fill the bleachers to watch their sons and grandsons battle the descendants of their own regional foes.
  All over America, gridiron fans sat on their couches, cracked open another Bud, and awaited the conclusion.
  Once a collegiate football superstar destined for gridiron greatness until an auto accident ended his athletic career, David now slogs through his dull gray day-to-day, a real nowhere man living in a nowhere land.
  The National Football League and city of Los Angeles officials have reached a preliminary agreement on terms to bring a pro gridiron team back to the Los Angeles Coliseum.
  As a result, he has given ordinary guys who share his love for the sport a chance to be gridiron legends.
  Fret not, gridiron fans - college football returns in a little over seven months, and a dozen teams already look like contenders…
  Tennis is in crisis in the US, and is in danger of being overwhelmed by the blanket coverage awarded to baseball, basketball and gridiron.
  There has been a global trend for television rights to fetch lower prices in recent years, with News Corp. writing down the value of contracts for gridiron, Major League Baseball and Nascar.
  What's interesting to me here is the importance of sport to Americans and Brits, particularly football - gridiron and/or soccer.
  And so Canton, Ohio, an hour south of Cleveland - not all that far from Akron and the NEC World Golf Championship - is famed as the birthplace of professional gridiron football.
  Condensing the playoffs would also avoid competition with the World Series, National Football League games, and college gridiron games.
  We look on baseball and gridiron as the quintessential American sports, but in truth these days, all sports are American sports.
  And let's make the distinction clear: American football, or gridiron, or whatever you want to call it, is football.
  Young, gifted and black, Jordan was the perfect role model for a generation of young black men, and sent basketball rocketing ahead of baseball and into competition with gridiron as America's game of choice.
  It has also become common practice in basketball, gridiron and other major sports in the United States.
  If you're used to the pace of AFL or rugby union, then watching gridiron is like chess with helmets - lots of waiting around for five seconds of flurried activity.
3
another term for grid (sense 2 of the noun)
Example sentencesExamples
- It is in America that the gridiron streetplan beloved of countless utopians has had its most rampant expression.

Origin

Middle English gredire, alteration of gredile ‘griddle’ by association with iron.

单词	gridiron
释义	Definition of gridiron in English: gridiron noun ˈɡrɪdʌɪənˈɡrɪdˌaɪ(ə)rn 1A frame of parallel bars or beams, typically in two sets forming a grid. 1.1 A frame of parallel metal bars used for grilling meat or fish over an open fire. Example sentencesExamples By the early 1800's, gridirons were not used as much as most homes had begun using kitchen stoves upon which to cook. Show vegetarians the courtesy of either a separate barbecue or a fresh gridiron. 1.2 A frame of parallel beams for supporting a ship in dock. 1.3 (in the theatre) a framework over a stage supporting scenery and lighting. Example sentencesExamples The stage is equipped with traps, a fly loft, lights, ladders and the height from stage to gridiron is 40 feet. 2A field for American football, marked with regularly spaced parallel lines. Example sentencesExamples 2K5 is no exception to this commemoration, and it includes some of the classic football moments ever seen on a gridiron. The BCA's and Cochran's positions basically come down to pressuring college administrators into allowing more African Americans to lead their teams on the gridiron. He was a black college athlete as gifted academically as on the gridiron. For nine years Esera Tuaolo played in the National Football League, running onto gridirons to the roar of thousands of fans. It doesn't much resemble the game that we have been watching for the past 20 weeks on NFL gridirons, but that doesn't mean that the players are playing hard. A finer man and a better coach never hit these United States, and a finer bunch of boys, never graced the gridirons of the Midwest, than that Iowa team in 1939. Since the 1960s, the gridiron, baseball field, basketball court, and boxing ring have spawned legions of entrepreneurs who sought to compete in the business arena. More than 200 motion pictures have been made using the gridiron as a backdrop. Giants TE Jeremy Shockey was named the NFL's Rookie of the Year Wednesday, capping off a season in which his production on the field was often overshadowed by his antics off the gridiron. Next month we take a look at athletes who have demonstrated business savvy by developing thriving enterprises while still making moves on the gridiron, baseball field, or basketball court. He certainly is focused on being the best defensive end the game has ever known, but his life doesn't begin and end on the gridiron. Formed 20 years ago in Colchester, the Gladiators American football team will be pounding the gridiron for a match against the Essex University team, the Essex Blades. No longer content with ruling the wrestling world, McMahon embarked on a new ‘turf war,’ this time on the gridiron. He imagined the gridiron was a chessboard and that he was playing against the other team's coaching staff. The NFL is filled with really bright people who have their lives in order and are interested in just doing a good job and pursuing excellence on the gridiron. For the remainder of his playing days, Barnes made notes and sketches at the end of each game about things he felt and saw on the gridiron. Players knocked unconscious on the gridiron are often hit in the same vulnerable area of head. And if their skills can equal their enthusiasm and desire, you may be seeing more and more women on the gridiron catching touchdown passes instead of on the sidelines cheering on the players. But you can't deny this: He was the ultimate field general, moving his teammates across the gridiron as if they were chess pieces. Despite appearing on the gridiron in only a trio of games, his numbers reflect the impact he can have on a game's outcome. 2.1North American mass noun The sport of American football. as modifier the national gridiron season Example sentencesExamples All over America, gridiron fans sat on their couches, cracked open another Bud, and awaited the conclusion. Once a collegiate football superstar destined for gridiron greatness until an auto accident ended his athletic career, David now slogs through his dull gray day-to-day, a real nowhere man living in a nowhere land. Young, gifted and black, Jordan was the perfect role model for a generation of young black men, and sent basketball rocketing ahead of baseball and into competition with gridiron as America's game of choice. And so Canton, Ohio, an hour south of Cleveland - not all that far from Akron and the NEC World Golf Championship - is famed as the birthplace of professional gridiron football. A former wrestler and gridiron player in Canada, he moved to Britain to study at Oxford University, where he earned three blues and a degree in history. Condensing the playoffs would also avoid competition with the World Series, National Football League games, and college gridiron games. If you're used to the pace of AFL or rugby union, then watching gridiron is like chess with helmets - lots of waiting around for five seconds of flurried activity. In small communities like the one in which I was raised generations of former gridiron warriors fill the bleachers to watch their sons and grandsons battle the descendants of their own regional foes. These days the vast majority of professional gridiron, and basketball teams in America employ cheerleaders, and there's no doubt that they are viewed by most players and fans as mere sex objects. Fret not, gridiron fans - college football returns in a little over seven months, and a dozen teams already look like contenders… The National Football League and city of Los Angeles officials have reached a preliminary agreement on terms to bring a pro gridiron team back to the Los Angeles Coliseum. And turn on the TV, I think that American gridiron Superbowl grand final is on today. There has been a global trend for television rights to fetch lower prices in recent years, with News Corp. writing down the value of contracts for gridiron, Major League Baseball and Nascar. And let's make the distinction clear: American football, or gridiron, or whatever you want to call it, is football. Until the rise of professional gridiron football in the 1950s it had no rival. It has also become common practice in basketball, gridiron and other major sports in the United States. What's interesting to me here is the importance of sport to Americans and Brits, particularly football - gridiron and/or soccer. Tennis is in crisis in the US, and is in danger of being overwhelmed by the blanket coverage awarded to baseball, basketball and gridiron. As a result, he has given ordinary guys who share his love for the sport a chance to be gridiron legends. We look on baseball and gridiron as the quintessential American sports, but in truth these days, all sports are American sports. 3A grid pattern, especially of streets. Example sentencesExamples It is in America that the gridiron streetplan beloved of countless utopians has had its most rampant expression. Origin Middle English gredire, alteration of gredile 'griddle' by association with iron. Rhymes midiron Definition of gridiron in US English: gridiron nounˈɡrɪdˌaɪ(ə)rnˈɡridˌī(ə)rn 1A frame of parallel bars or beams, typically in two sets arranged at right angles. 1.1 A frame of parallel metal bars used for grilling meat or fish over an open fire. Example sentencesExamples Show vegetarians the courtesy of either a separate barbecue or a fresh gridiron. By the early 1800's, gridirons were not used as much as most homes had begun using kitchen stoves upon which to cook. 1.2 A frame of parallel beams for supporting a ship in dock. 1.3 (in the theater) a framework over a stage supporting scenery and lighting. Example sentencesExamples The stage is equipped with traps, a fly loft, lights, ladders and the height from stage to gridiron is 40 feet. 2A field for football, marked with regularly spaced parallel lines. Example sentencesExamples He certainly is focused on being the best defensive end the game has ever known, but his life doesn't begin and end on the gridiron. But you can't deny this: He was the ultimate field general, moving his teammates across the gridiron as if they were chess pieces. No longer content with ruling the wrestling world, McMahon embarked on a new ‘turf war,’ this time on the gridiron. Giants TE Jeremy Shockey was named the NFL's Rookie of the Year Wednesday, capping off a season in which his production on the field was often overshadowed by his antics off the gridiron. The NFL is filled with really bright people who have their lives in order and are interested in just doing a good job and pursuing excellence on the gridiron. For nine years Esera Tuaolo played in the National Football League, running onto gridirons to the roar of thousands of fans. Since the 1960s, the gridiron, baseball field, basketball court, and boxing ring have spawned legions of entrepreneurs who sought to compete in the business arena. Despite appearing on the gridiron in only a trio of games, his numbers reflect the impact he can have on a game's outcome. A finer man and a better coach never hit these United States, and a finer bunch of boys, never graced the gridirons of the Midwest, than that Iowa team in 1939. 2K5 is no exception to this commemoration, and it includes some of the classic football moments ever seen on a gridiron. Next month we take a look at athletes who have demonstrated business savvy by developing thriving enterprises while still making moves on the gridiron, baseball field, or basketball court. It doesn't much resemble the game that we have been watching for the past 20 weeks on NFL gridirons, but that doesn't mean that the players are playing hard. And if their skills can equal their enthusiasm and desire, you may be seeing more and more women on the gridiron catching touchdown passes instead of on the sidelines cheering on the players. For the remainder of his playing days, Barnes made notes and sketches at the end of each game about things he felt and saw on the gridiron. The BCA's and Cochran's positions basically come down to pressuring college administrators into allowing more African Americans to lead their teams on the gridiron. Players knocked unconscious on the gridiron are often hit in the same vulnerable area of head. He was a black college athlete as gifted academically as on the gridiron. More than 200 motion pictures have been made using the gridiron as a backdrop. He imagined the gridiron was a chessboard and that he was playing against the other team's coaching staff. Formed 20 years ago in Colchester, the Gladiators American football team will be pounding the gridiron for a match against the Essex University team, the Essex Blades. 2.1North American The game of football. as modifier the national gridiron season Example sentencesExamples Until the rise of professional gridiron football in the 1950s it had no rival. And turn on the TV, I think that American gridiron Superbowl grand final is on today. These days the vast majority of professional gridiron, and basketball teams in America employ cheerleaders, and there's no doubt that they are viewed by most players and fans as mere sex objects. A former wrestler and gridiron player in Canada, he moved to Britain to study at Oxford University, where he earned three blues and a degree in history. In small communities like the one in which I was raised generations of former gridiron warriors fill the bleachers to watch their sons and grandsons battle the descendants of their own regional foes. All over America, gridiron fans sat on their couches, cracked open another Bud, and awaited the conclusion. Once a collegiate football superstar destined for gridiron greatness until an auto accident ended his athletic career, David now slogs through his dull gray day-to-day, a real nowhere man living in a nowhere land. The National Football League and city of Los Angeles officials have reached a preliminary agreement on terms to bring a pro gridiron team back to the Los Angeles Coliseum. As a result, he has given ordinary guys who share his love for the sport a chance to be gridiron legends. Fret not, gridiron fans - college football returns in a little over seven months, and a dozen teams already look like contenders… Tennis is in crisis in the US, and is in danger of being overwhelmed by the blanket coverage awarded to baseball, basketball and gridiron. There has been a global trend for television rights to fetch lower prices in recent years, with News Corp. writing down the value of contracts for gridiron, Major League Baseball and Nascar. What's interesting to me here is the importance of sport to Americans and Brits, particularly football - gridiron and/or soccer. And so Canton, Ohio, an hour south of Cleveland - not all that far from Akron and the NEC World Golf Championship - is famed as the birthplace of professional gridiron football. Condensing the playoffs would also avoid competition with the World Series, National Football League games, and college gridiron games. We look on baseball and gridiron as the quintessential American sports, but in truth these days, all sports are American sports. And let's make the distinction clear: American football, or gridiron, or whatever you want to call it, is football. Young, gifted and black, Jordan was the perfect role model for a generation of young black men, and sent basketball rocketing ahead of baseball and into competition with gridiron as America's game of choice. It has also become common practice in basketball, gridiron and other major sports in the United States. If you're used to the pace of AFL or rugby union, then watching gridiron is like chess with helmets - lots of waiting around for five seconds of flurried activity. 3 another term for grid (sense 2 of the noun) Example sentencesExamples It is in America that the gridiron streetplan beloved of countless utopians has had its most rampant expression. Origin Middle English gredire, alteration of gredile ‘griddle’ by association with iron.
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