Broil vs. Grill — What's the Difference?

Cook (meat or fish) by exposure to direct heat

To broil on a gridiron.

A quarrel or commotion

To torture or afflict as if by broiling.

To cook by direct radiant heat, as over a grill or under an electric element.

(Informal) To question relentlessly; cross-examine.

To expose to great heat.

To mark or emboss with a gridiron.

To be exposed to great heat.

A cooking surface of parallel metal bars; a gridiron.

To engage in a rowdy argument.

Food cooked by broiling or grilling.

The act of broiling or the condition of being broiled.

An informal restaurant or a room in a restaurant where grilled foods are served. Also called grillroom.

Food, especially meat, that is broiled.

A series of marks grilled or embossed on a surface.

A rowdy argument.

Variant of grille.

To cook by direct, radiant heat.

A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used to protect something while allowing the passage of air and liquids. Typical uses: to allow air through a fan while preventing fingers or objects from passing; to allow people to talk to somebody, while preventing attack.

To expose to great heat.

The criss-cross pieces that separate panes of glass in a window.

To be exposed to great heat.

On a vehicle, a slotted cover as above, to protect and hide the radiator, while admitting air to cool it.

(transitive) To cause a rowdy disturbance; embroil.

(UK) A cooking device comprising a source of radiative heat and a means of holding food under it; a broiler in US English

To brawl.

(US) A cooking device comprising a source of radiative and convective heat and a means of holding food above it; a barbecue.

Food prepared by broiling.

Food (designed to be) cooked on a grill.

(archaic) A brawl; a rowdy disturbance.

A grillroom; a restaurant serving grilled food.

A tumult; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl; contention; discord, either between individuals or in the state.

(colloquial) A type of jewelry worn on the front teeth.

To cook by direct exposure to heat over a fire, esp. upon a gridiron over coals.

The front teeth regarded collectively.

To subject to great (commonly direct) heat.

Deliberate misspelling of girl

To be subjected to the action of heat, as meat over the fire; to be greatly heated, or to be made uncomfortable with heat.

(obsolete) Harm.

Cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill)

(transitive) To cook (food) on a grill; to barbecue.

Cook under a broiler;

To cook food under the element of a stove or only under the top element of an oven – (US) broil, (cooking) salamander.

Heat by a natural force;

To interrogate; to question aggressively or harshly.

To feel very hot; to swelter.

(transitive) To stamp or mark with a grill.

To make angry; provoke; offend, incite.

To terrify; make tremble.

To tremble; shiver.

To snarl; snap.

(obsolete) Harsh, rough, severe; cruel.

A gridiron.

That which is broiled on a gridiron, as meat, fish, etc.

A figure of crossed bars with interstices, such as those sometimes impressed upon postage stamps.

A grillroom.

To broil on a grill or gridiron.

To torment, as if by broiling.

To stamp or mark with a grill.

To undergo the process of being grilled, or broiled; to broil.

A restaurant where food is cooked on a grill

A framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate;

Cook over a grill;