Difference between Grid and Gridiron

What is the difference between Grid and Gridiron?

Grid as a noun is a rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle. while Gridiron as a noun is an iron rack or grate used for for broiling flesh and fish over coals.

Grid

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle. A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire. A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, such structures being known as a computational grid or simply grid computing, and used mainly to solve single and complex scientific or technical problems or to process data at high speeds (as in clusters). A method of marking off maps into areas.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To mark with a grid. To assign a reference grid to.

Example sentence: I'm a fighter, I'm a winner, and I'm not interested in just battling my team-mate for the back of the grid.

Gridiron

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An iron rack or grate used for for broiling flesh and fish over coals.Any object resembling the rack or grate.The field on which American football is played.American football esp. to distinguish from soccer, rugby union, rugby league and Australian Rules football.

We hope you now know whether to use Grid or Gridiron in your sentence.

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