barricade vs grid

barricade

noun
  • An obstacle, barrier, or bulwark. 

  • A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence 

  • A place of confrontation. 

verb
  • to close or block a road etc., using a barricade 

  • to keep someone in (or out), using a blockade, especially ships in a port 

grid

noun
  • A grating of parallel bars; a gridiron. 

  • The third (or higher) electrode of a vacuum tube (triode or higher). 

  • The pattern of starting positions of the drivers for a race. 

  • An openwork ceiling above the stage or studio, used for affixing lights etc. 

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

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

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

  • A battery-plate somewhat like a grating, especially a zinc plate in a primary battery, or a lead plate in a secondary or storage battery. 

  • 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). 

  • A method of marking off maps into areas. 

verb
  • To mark with a grid. 

  • To assign a reference grid to. 

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