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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
grille
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
iron
▪ Five identical houses, four storeys of sad, grey stone, stood behind ten-foot iron grilles.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Eventually the grille swung away from the iron chair, and the helmet from his head, releasing Lexandro.
▪ He grabbed a parking space, his brake lights making bloody stains on the car grille behind.
▪ On top of the cab was a very big circular disc with a grille over it like miniature venetian blinds.
▪ The bottom half of the building was towers, balconies and metal grilles, and the top half was very Hemish merchant.
▪ The fine decorative grille in front of the doorway is by Jaroslav Horejc of 1954.
▪ The front grille and the chrome hub caps gleamed, because he polished them every evening with a soft chamois cloth.
▪ The new Mountaineer is an Explorer in Mercury trim with the 5. 0-liter engine and a distinct grille with Mercury emblem.
▪ The Ugly: Styling groove across grille.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grille

Grille \Grille\, a. [F. See Grill, v. t.] A lattice or grating.

The grille which formed part of the gate.
--L. Oliphant.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
grille

"ornamental grating," 1660s, from French grille (fem.) "grating," from Old French greille "gridiron," from Latin craticula "gridiron" (see grill). "The distinction in French between grille and grill ... appears to date from about the 16th c." [OED].

Wiktionary
grille

n. (alternative form of grill nodot=yes English) (rack, vehicle cover, etc.)

WordNet
grille
  1. n. small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted [syn: wicket, lattice]

  2. grating that admits cooling air to car's radiator [syn: radiator grille]

  3. a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate; "he cooked hamburgers on the grill" [syn: grill, grillwork]

Wikipedia
Grille (car)

In automotive engineering, a grille covers an opening in the body of a vehicle to allow air to enter. Most vehicles feature a grille at the front of the vehicle to protect the radiator and engine. Merriam-Webster describes grilles as "a grating forming a barrier or screen; especially: an ornamental one at the front end of an automobile." Other common grille locations include below the front bumper, in front of the wheels (to cool the brakes), in the cowl for cabin ventilation, or on the rear deck lid (in rear engine vehicles).

Grille (artillery)

The Grille ( German: " cricket") was a series of self propelled artillery vehicles used by Nazi Germany during World War II. The Grille series was based on the Czech Panzer 38(t) tank chassis and used a 15 cm sIG 33 infantry gun.

Grille (cryptography)

In the history of cryptography, a grille cipher was a technique for encrypting a plaintext by writing it onto a sheet of paper through a pierced sheet (of paper or cardboard or similar). The earliest known description is due to the polymath Girolamo Cardano in 1550. His proposal was for a rectangular stencil allowing single letters, syllables, or words to be written, then later read, through its various apertures. The written fragments of the plaintext could be further disguised by filling the gaps between the fragments with anodyne words or letters. This variant is also an example of steganography, as are many of the grille ciphers.

Grille

A grille or grill (French word from Latin craticula, small grill) is an opening of several slits side by side in a wall or metal sheet or other barrier, usually to let air or water enter and/or leave but keep larger objects including animals in or out.

Usage examples of "grille".

The journey took several minutes even at a sprint, through sunken tunnels and window-lined connecting bridges, up and down grilled ramps, through ponderous internal airlocks and sweltering aeroponics labs, taking this detour or that to avoid a blown bubble or failed airlock.

Looking around, Alec quickly spotted an old man grilling skewers of meat over a brazier nearby.

I can still taste the spicy, deep-fried fingers of speckled trout on a drive through Cajun country, the mountain of tiny grilled fishwithout an English name that we ate, head and all, on the Adriatic coast, the barbecued bluefish at the end of a Long Island summer, the little yellow perch we caught at sunset in Vermont and crisply panfried a few moments later.

His photographs of sexual acts, of sections of automobile radiator grilles and instrument panels, conjunctions between elbow and chromium window-sill, vulva and instrument binnacle, summed up the possibilities of a new logic created by these multiplying artefacts, the codes of a new marriage of sensation and possibility.

That distinctive fifties Buick grille, which looked to me like the mouth of a chrome crocodile.

Transfer to a platter, garnish with lemon wedges and divided bay leaves, and serve with grilled ciabatta bread and the rest of the garlic oil.

Riddler, his murderous sister Cime, Bashir of Free Nisibis who brought Enlil into the war, and Grille, representative of Ranke under whose aegis even the Tysian mageguild had sent a young adept along to fight.

Through the grille of the hatch he could see a mast, and sailors clambering like squirrels about the rigging.

Upon boarding, you present the porter with your passport and hotel reservations, enjoy a dinner of grilled halibut or perhaps a Coquilles St.

As the excellent American chefs Chris Schlesinger and John Willoughby have pointed out, grilling forced an entirely new approach to saucemaking: With no residue to deglaze, the cook had to think in terms of savory complements rather than subtle echoes.

Once in the system, he crawled through the maze of ductwork, until he came at last to the grille overlooking the room with the alcove and the rows of indentations on the alcove walls.

They feasted on thick steaks cut from the long back strips of the eland, and kebabs of kidney, liver and fat grilled over the coals.

It was a gutter, originally for shit and now for rainwater, a six-inch channel between the paving slabs that sluiced through grilles into the undercity at the furthest end.

When we have to secure the fortress, we just lift these grilles and give the beasts access to the whole outer ward.

It was a complex procedure, involving an alarm system and an arrangement of steel grilles, and she performed it with painstaking concentration.