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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
grid
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cattle grid
grid computing
National Grid
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
national
▪ It said it would cut the power supply to the national grid if its demands were not met.
▪ For a start it is 40 percent cheaper than electricity from the national grid.
▪ Landcorp, which administered government buildings and land; and Electricorp, which operated the power stations and the national grid.
▪ In the 17-month period from March 1980 to August 1981 alone, 15 units were connected to the national grid.
▪ Labour would also take control of the national electricity grid, making it responsibility for energy saving.
▪ Isobel Drury, of the society, warned against plans to solve water shortages through a national grid or local water grids.
▪ Dounreay was chosen because it possesses cable links to the national grid and a suitable coastal site.
▪ The plant will generate around 30 megawatts of electricity, which will be fed into the national grid.
■ NOUN
electricity
▪ The power supply will come easily from the electricity grid.
▪ Labour would also take control of the national electricity grid, making it responsibility for energy saving.
▪ So also the national electricity grids, when these appeared.
pattern
▪ The smaller streets criss-crossed on a grid pattern and the town walls surrounded an eight-sided city.
▪ Sherman had lost track of the grid pattern altogether.
▪ The street system did not accord to a grid pattern.
▪ Once illustrated, each backdrop design had to be overlaid with a precise grid pattern as an aid for the scenic artist.
▪ The machine shop was an enormous shed with machines and work benches laid out in a grid pattern.
▪ The grid pattern of streets was extensively adopted and the areas for religious, civic and private building carefully laid out.
power
▪ Roads, subways, power grids, and dams were constructed; cities were refurbished.
reference
▪ Look out for the grid reference which appears in each accommodation entry.
▪ The Ordnance Survey grid references relate to the maps, with the grid lines 1 kilometre apart.
system
▪ But clinging to the numbered street grid system we found, and flopped into, our riverside home.
▪ As well as the grid system of streets, there is a territorial grid which is equally apparent.
▪ Most published maps use a grid system and the Cartesian reference system in which coordinates are specified as x, y pairs.
▪ This system is not as accurate as either of the grid systems.
■ VERB
start
▪ Indeed, if you only define the four page margins and the paper size you have effectively started to design the grid.
▪ Last week the first kilowatts started trickling into the grid.
use
▪ Ripstop: A construction of fabric using a grid of stronger fibres at regular intervals to improve overall strength.
▪ There might be alternatives to using a grid.
▪ By using a grid marked out on the ground, each point where a reading is taken can be plotted.
▪ Proton magnetometers are usually employed using a grid divided into squares 1 m to 3 m on a side.
▪ The data in Appendix H were digitized manually using an xy grid with coordinate values in the range 0-1000.
▪ Most published maps use a grid system and the Cartesian reference system in which coordinates are specified as x, y pairs.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the National Grid
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a power grid
▪ In many U.S. cities, the streets are organized in a grid.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He would have preferred chess, but Sheldukher could not provide a board, and they both disliked playing on computer grids.
▪ Put some NaOH pellets around the edge and place one grid on each drop, section side down.
▪ Sometimes when you find such a place it makes that grid seem to disappear.
▪ The eerie grid of a city was spread out before him, lit by the chemical yellow of the street lamps.
▪ The electronic zoo consists of a 9m grid coffered slab supported by reinforced columns.
▪ The final category of small towns covers those sites with an apparent element of planning or some form of recognizable street grid.
▪ The resulting uniform frequency of energy allows synchronisation with the national grid.
▪ The tires wailed on the iron grid.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grid

Grid \Grid\ (gr[i^]d), n.

  1. A grating of thin parallel bars, similar to a gridiron.

  2. (Elec.) A plate or sheet of lead with perforations, or other irregularities of surface, by which the active material of a secondary battery or accumulator is supported.

  3. (Electronics) a mesh or coil of fine wire in an electron tube, connected to the circuit so as to regulate the current passing through the tube.

  4. any network of crossing horizontal and vertical lines; -- they are used, for example, as reference coordinates to locate objects or places on a map.

  5. anything resembling a grid[4], as the Manhattan street grid. See also gridlock.

  6. a network of connected conductors for distributing electrical power, especially one using high-tension lines for wide geographic distribution of power; as, the Northeast power grid.

  7. (Football) the gridiron.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
grid

1839, shortening of gridiron. City planning sense is from 1954 (hence gridlock). Meaning "network of transmission lines" first recorded 1926.

Wiktionary
grid

n. 1 A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle. 2 A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire. vb. 1 To mark with a grid. 2 To assign a reference grid to.

WordNet
grid
  1. n. a system of high tension cables by which electrical power is distributed throughout a region [syn: power system, power grid]

  2. a network of horizontal and vertical lines that provide coordinates for locating points on an image [syn: reference grid]

  3. an electrode placed between the cathode and anode of a vacuum tube to control the flow of electrons through the tube [syn: control grid]

  4. a cooking utensil of parallel metal bars; used to grill fish or meat [syn: gridiron]

Wikipedia
GRid
Grid (graphic design)

In graphic design, a grid is a structure (usually two-dimensional) made up of a series of intersecting straight (vertical, horizontal, and angular) or curved guide lines used to structure content. The grid serves as an armature or framework on which a designer can organize graphic elements ( images, glyphs, paragraphs, etc.) in a rational, easy-to-absorb manner. A grid can be used to organize graphic elements in relation to a page, in relation to other graphic elements on the page, or relation to other parts of the same graphic element or shape.

The less-common printing term "reference grid," is an unrelated system with roots in the early days of printing.

Grid (album)

GRID, released on January 25, 2006, is the eighth original album by the Japanese band m.o.v.e. The catalogue code for this album is AVCT-10156/B with a bonus DVD, and AVCT-10157 without one.

Grid (spatial index)

In the context of a spatial index, a grid (a.k.a. "mesh", also " global grid" if it covers the entire surface of the globe) is a regular tessellation of a manifold or 2-D surface that divides it into a series of contiguous cells, which can then be assigned unique identifiers and used for spatial indexing purposes. A wide variety of such grids have been proposed or are currently in use, including grids based on "square" or "rectangular" cells, triangular grids or meshes, hexagonal grids and grids based on diamond-shaped cells.

Usage examples of "grid".

The training offered by the priests of Amel is to look beyond the illusion of opposites fostered by the grid and to master the instinctual responses those opposites provoke.

It draws tremendous Flux from the grid and then can send it to anyplace else.

Two of his mobile phones are bickering moronically, disputing ownership of his grid bandwidth.

He sat at the centre of his cell like an albino frog, working at some obscure cabbalistic grid, probably a malice puzzle.

The cutaway graphics of Voyager and Equinox showed every deck and section of the ships, highlighted with a complex grid of force fields, under attack in what seemed a random pattern but apparently was not.

From the air, the Ethene community shows more of a grid system, with its lanes converging in a fan toward the temple on the hillside south of everything else.

Apollonite community was circular, and the Ethene a fan-shaped grid, the Taurist is rectangular, with black buildings, black-paved roads, and a central black square, in the center of which burns a strange black flame.

Even Krogh, who had changed the worlds forever, reaped only a tiny royalty when someone faxed him- or herself across space and time, the morbidity filter one of many background processes running behind every collapsiter grid transaction.

The grids making up the headboard and footboard represented waves, and sea shrubs and shells decorated the lower sides of the bed.

The headboard and footboard were tall grids of metal, perhaps even kauchu.

Greg could run softer Goodyears and maybe gain a few positions on the starting grid.

When they gridded it down to the specific, they settled on Mixed-Species Communication.

But of course she would not have let him have it, either, so they would have gridded into something else, that perhaps neither of them had much experience in, such as Writing.

Ben Blesh and Lara Quistner, and ran on to the edge of the gridded area.

The Coastal Republic checkpoints at the intersections of the roads were gray and fuzzy, like house-size clots of bread mold, so dense was the fractal defense grid, and staring through the cloud of macro- and microscopic aerostats, Hackworth could barely make out the hoplites in the center, heat waves rising from the radiators on their backs and stirring the airborne soup.