Difference between Gridiron and Grid

What is the difference between Gridiron and Grid?

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

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.

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: If our country is going to remain competitive on the world stage, then we must start with rebuilding our infrastructure, providing secure and well-paying jobs, making our energy grid cleaner and more reliable, and increasing access to broadband.

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

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