Grille vs. Grill — What's the Difference?

A grille or grill (French word from Latin craticula, small grill) is an opening of several slits side-by-side in a wall, metal sheet or another barrier, usually to allow air or water to enter and/or leave and prevent larger objects (such as animals) from going in or out.A similar definition is "a French term for an enclosure in either iron or bronze."

To broil on a gridiron.

A grating of metal, wood, or another material used as a screen, divider, barrier, or decorative element, as in a window or on the front end of an automobile.

To torture or afflict as if by broiling.

An opening covered with a grating.

(Informal) To question relentlessly; cross-examine.

Alternative form of grill(only in the senses of "grating over opening", "grating on the front of a vehicle", and "window divider")

To mark or emboss with a gridiron.

A lattice or grating.

A cooking surface of parallel metal bars; a gridiron.

Small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted

Food cooked by broiling or grilling.

Grating that admits cooling air to car's radiator

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

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

A series of marks grilled or embossed on a surface.

Variant of grille.

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.

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

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

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

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

Food (designed to be) cooked on a grill.

A grillroom; a restaurant serving grilled food.

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

The front teeth regarded collectively.

Deliberate misspelling of girl

(obsolete) Harm.

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

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

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;