Cafe vs. Grill
Cafenoun
(South Africa) A convenience store, originally one that sold coffee and similar basic items.
Grillnoun
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.
Cafenoun
A coffeehouse; a restaurant, especially a small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold; also, a room in a hotel or restaurant where coffee and liquors are served.
Grillnoun
On a vehicle, a slotted cover as above, to protect and hide the radiator, while admitting air to cool it.
Cafenoun
a small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold
Grillnoun
(UK) A cooking device comprising a source of radiative heat and a means of holding food under it; a broiler in US English
Grillnoun
(US) A cooking device comprising a source of radiative and convective heat and a means of holding food above it; a barbecue.
‘I put some peppers and mushrooms on the grill to go with dinner.’;
Grillnoun
(colloquial) A type of jewelry worn on the front teeth.
Grillnoun
The front teeth regarded collectively.
Grillnoun
Food cooked on a grill.
‘a packet of frozen cauliflower cheese grills’;
Grillnoun
A grillroom; a restaurant serving grilled food.
‘These coupons will get you a discount at Johnny's Bar and Grill.’;
Grillnoun
misspelling of girl
Grillnoun
(obsolete) Harm.
Grillverb
(transitive) To cook (food) on a grill; to barbecue.
‘Why don't we get together Saturday and grill some burgers?’;
Grillverb
To cook food under the element of a stove or only under the top element of an oven – (US) broil, (cooking) salamander.
Grillverb
To interrogate; to question aggressively or harshly.
‘The police grilled him about his movements at the time of the crime.’;
Grillverb
To feel very hot; to swelter.
Grillverb
(transitive) To stamp or mark with a grill.
Grillverb
To make angry; provoke; incite.
Grillverb
To terrify; make tremble.
Grillverb
To tremble; shiver.
Grillverb
To snarl; snap.
Grilladjective
(obsolete) Harsh, rough, severe; cruel.
Grillnoun
A gridiron.
‘[They] make grills of [wood] to broil their meat.’;
Grillnoun
That which is broiled on a gridiron, as meat, fish, etc.
Grillnoun
A figure of crossed bars with interstices, such as those sometimes impressed upon postage stamps.
Grillnoun
A grillroom.
Grillverb
To broil on a grill or gridiron.
‘Boiling of men in caldrons, grilling them on gridirons.’;
Grillverb
To torment, as if by broiling.
Grillverb
To stamp or mark with a grill.
Grillverb
To undergo the process of being grilled, or broiled; to broil.
‘He had grilled in the heat, sweated in the rains.’;
Grillnoun
a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill
Grillnoun
a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate;
‘he cooked hamburgers on the grill’;
Grillverb
cook over a grill;
‘grill the sausages’;
