English Dictionary

gridiron

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈɡɹɪdaɪən/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 オーストラリア英語 ニュージーランド英語

Any object resembling the rack or grate. / (nautical) An openwork frame on which vessels are placed for examination, cleaning, and repairs.

日本語の意味

格子状の枠、網や格子のような構造物。 / （海事用語）船舶の検査、清掃、修理のために使用される、網目状・格子状の枠組み。

She placed the roasted vegetables on the gridiron to cool before carving.

彼女は切り分ける前に、焼いた野菜を金属製の焼き網の上に置いて冷ました。

意味（1）

Any object resembling the rack or grate.

Just north of Farringdon station, and to the east of Ray Street, there is a wide cutting bounded by another of those brick walls nicely calculated to be just too high for you to see over. So prop your bike against it, and stand on the down-pointing pedal crank. You are looking at the Ray Street Gridiron, a spectacular bridge in a cutting that carries the Metropolitan, the supposed Underground, over the Widened Lines (now Thameslink).

意味（2）

(nautical) An openwork frame on which vessels are placed for examination, cleaning, and repairs.

意味（3）

(theater) A raised framework from which lighting is suspended.

意味（4）

(American football) The field on which American football is played.

意味（5）

(uncountable, Australia and New Zealand) American and Canadian football, particularly when used to distinguish from other codes of football.

He represented Australia in this year′s rugby tour of England and is as well-known in Australia as any top gridiron player is in the United States.

gridirons （ plural ）