grid

CEFRC1

/ɡɹɪd/

noun

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In plain English

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noun
A pattern of crossing lines or a network for supplying power.
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noun
Extra detail
A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire.

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At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

A tiling of the plane with regular polygons; a honeycomb.
A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle.
A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, used mainly to solve single and complex scientific or technical problems or to process data at high speeds (as in clusters).

In context

On the SAT, to answer a grid-in question, you grid in your answer by filling out the ovals.
You can't turn off the building from here; you have to shut down the whole grid.
McLaren's Lewis Hamilton fought up from the back of the grid to eighth, with team-mate Jenson Button taking ninth.

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McLaren's Lewis Hamilton fought up from the back of the grid to eighth, with team-mate Jenson Button taking ninth.
2012 May 13, Andrew Benson, “Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win”, in BBC Sport
[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.
2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
They camped that night at Dingo Creek, the fire Jim quickly made, Put the Billy on the cross-piece, pitched the tent, Brought a steak from 'neath the saddle-flap, and on the "grid" 'twas laid, A piece of rusty fencing wire, well bent.
1897 October 10, The Truth, Sydney, page 8, column 3
Everything on the grid – all the backdrops and curtains, anything that has to move up and down from the fly-tower – has to be counterweighted.
2018, Maggie Harcourt, Theatrical
‘Hop on the bar of my grid,’ said D'Arcy. ‘I'll double you round to meet some pals of ours.’
1963, Ronald Hugh Morrieson, The Scarecrow, Text Classics, published 2012, page 80

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Back-formation or clipping of griddle or gridiron.