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/ɡɹɪd/ · noun
A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle..
You can't turn off the building from here; you have to shut down the whole grid.
[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.
McLaren's Lewis Hamilton fought up from the back of the grid to eighth, with team-mate Jenson Button taking ninth.
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.
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.
‘Hop on the bar of my grid,’ said D'Arcy. ‘I'll double you round to meet some pals of ours.’
On the SAT, to answer a grid-in question, you grid in your answer by filling out the ovals.
Use grid when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Grid means A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle..
Common synonyms include gridiron, power grid, control grid, reference grid.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
You can't turn off the building from here; you have to shut down the whole grid.
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