grid

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

grids

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

grid

past (v2)

gridded

past participle (v3)

gridded

present participle

gridding

3rd person singular

grids

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle.

2. 2.A tiling of the plane with regular polygons; a honeycomb.

3. 3.A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire.

   • You can't turn off the building from here; you have to shut down the whole grid.

4. 4.A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, used mainly to solve single and complex scientific or technical problems or to process data at high speeds (as in clusters).

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To mark with a grid.

2. 2.To assign a reference grid to.

3. 3.To enter in a grid.

   • On the SAT, to answer a grid-in question, you grid in your answer by filling out the ovals.

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