grill
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grill
gridiron; barbecue; interrogate: The detective will grill him for hours to get to the facts.
Not to be confused with:
grille – a metal framework; perforated screen: The entrance had a decorative iron grille.
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grill
(grĭl)tr.v. grilled, grill·ing, grills
1. To broil on a gridiron.
2. To torture or afflict as if by broiling.
3. Informal To question relentlessly; cross-examine.
4. To mark or emboss with a gridiron.
n.
1. A cooking surface of parallel metal bars; a gridiron.
2. Food cooked by broiling or grilling.
3. An informal restaurant or a room in a restaurant where grilled foods are served. Also called grillroom.
4. A series of marks grilled or embossed on a surface.
5. Variant of grille.
[French griller, from gril, gridiron, from Old French greille, from Latin crātīcula; see griddle.]
grill′er n.
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grill
(ɡrɪl)vb
1. (Cookery) to cook (meat, fish, etc) by direct heat, as under a grill or over a hot fire, or (of meat, fish, etc) to be cooked in this way. Usual US and Canadian word: broil
2. (tr; usually passive) to torment with or as if with extreme heat: the travellers were grilled by the scorching sun.
3. (tr) informal to subject to insistent or prolonged questioning
n
4. (Cookery) a device with parallel bars of thin metal on which meat, fish, etc, may be cooked by a fire; gridiron
5. (Cookery) a device on a cooker that radiates heat downwards for grilling meat, fish, etc
6. (Cookery) food cooked by grilling
7. (Cookery) See grillroom
[C17: from French gril gridiron, from Latin crātīcula fine wickerwork; see grille]
ˈgriller n
grill
(ɡrɪl)n
(Automotive Engineering) a variant spelling of grille
[C17: see grille]
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grill
(grɪl)n.
1. an apparatus topped by a grated metal framework for cooking food over direct heat, as a gas or charcoal fire.
2. a metal grate for broiling food over a fire; gridiron.
3. a dish of grilled meat, fish, vegetables, etc.
4. grillroom.
5. a group of small pyramidal marks, embossed or impressed in parallel rows on certain postage stamps to prevent erasure of cancellation marks.
v.t. 6. to broil on a grill.
7. to subject to severe and persistent cross-examination or questioning.
8. to torment with heat.
9. to mark with a series of parallel bars like those of a grill.
[1660–70; < French gril gridiron « Latin crātīculum, diminutive of crātis wickerwork, hurdle. compare grille]
grill′er, n.
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grill
Past participle: grilled
Gerund: grilling
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Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
grill
1. (food) broil
2. The British and Canadian term for cooking uncovered food directly under heat or over an open fire (broil).
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| Noun | 1. |  grill - a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill |
| 2. | grill - a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate; "he cooked hamburgers on the grill" framework - a structure supporting or containing something | |
| Verb | 1. | grill - cook over a grill; "grill the sausages" cookery, cooking, preparation - the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife" cook - transform and make suitable for consumption by heating; "These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes" barbecue, barbeque, cook out - cook outdoors on a barbecue grill; "let's barbecue that meat"; "We cooked out in the forest" hibachi - cook over a hibachi grill broil, oven broil - cook under a broiler; "broil fish" |
| 2. | grill - examine thoroughly; "the student was grilled for two hours on the subject of phonology" examine - question closely |
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grill
verbInformal. To question thoroughly and relentlessly to verify facts:
Idiom: give someone the third degree.
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Translations
grilovatgrilgrilovaný pokrmpodrobit křížovému výslechurožeň
grillgrillegrillretgrillristkrydsforhøre
grillatagrillihiillostaakuulustellaristikko
peći na roštiljuroštilj
erõszakosan vallatfatányérosgrillgrillezrostély
grill, steikarristgrilla, glóîarsteikjagrillaîur matur, glóîarsteiktur rétturyfirheyra í òaula
グリルグリルで焼く
그릴그릴에 굽다
ant grotelių kepta mėsaant grotelių kepta žuvisgardelėskvosti
ceptgrila restesgrilētgrilēts ēdiensgrils
grilgrilované jedlo
peči na žaružarzasliševati
grillgrilla
ย่างอาหารย่าง
ızgaraızgara yapmakızgarada pişirmeksorguya çekmek
nướngvỉ nướng
grill
[grɪl]B. VT
1. (Culin) → asar a la parrilla
2. (= interrogate) → interrogar
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
grill
[ˈgrɪl] n
(on cooker) → gril m
mixed grill
vt
(British) [+ food] → griller
(= question) → interroger longuement, cuisiner
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
grill
n
(Cook, on cooker etc) → Grill m; (= gridiron) → Grill m, → (Brat)rost m; (= food) → Grillgericht nt, → Grillade f; (= restaurant) → Grill(room) m
= grille
vt
(Cook) → grillen
grill
:grill pan
n (Brit) → Grillpfanne f
grillroom
n → Grillroom m
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
grill
[grɪl]1. n
a. (Brit) (on cooker) → griglia; (gridiron) → graticola; (in restaurant) (also grillroom) → grill-room m inv
a mixed grill → una grigliata mista
a mixed grill → una grigliata mista
2. vt
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
grill
(gril) verb1. to cook directly under heat. to grill the chops.
2. to question (a person) closely. The police grilled the man they thought was the murderer.
noun1. the part of a cooker used for grilling.
2. a frame of metal bars for grilling food on.
3. a dish of grilled food. a mixed grill.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
grill
→ شَوَّايَة, يَشْوي gril, grilovat grill, grille Grill, grillen σχάρα, ψήνω στη σχάρα hacer a la parrilla, parrilla grillata, grilli gril, griller peći na roštilju, roštilj griglia, grigliare グリル, グリルで焼く 그릴, 그릴에 굽다 grill, grillen grill, grille ruszt, upiec na ruszcie grelha, grelhar гриль, жарить на гриле grill, grilla ย่าง, อาหารย่าง ızgara, ızgara yapmak nướng, vỉ nướng 烤, 烤架Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
grill
vt asar a la parrillaEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.