What's the difference between grid and grim?

Grid


Definition:

  • (n.) A grating of thin parallel bars, similar to a gridiron.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The benefit of focal and grid-laser photocoagulation in reducing the risk of visual loss from diabetic macular edema has been established.
  • (2) The area of mammographically visualized breast tissue before and after augmentation mammoplasty was measured using a transparent grid.
  • (3) Some of the parallel fibers, which display presynaptic vesicular grids, established synaptic contact with stellate cells and the dendritic spines of the few Purkinje cells that survived the treatment.
  • (4) Xenophon’s letter says if State Grid is also allowed to own a huge stake in Ausgrid it raises serious questions about market dominance.
  • (5) Quantitative cell types were determined by a grid intersection counting technique at x 1000.
  • (6) The simple BASIC program described in this paper generates a list of random grid-square numbers, which are sequentially analyzed.
  • (7) Grid reference: 54.5763, -2.8734 Photograph: www.wildswimming.com Lower Ddwli Falls, Waterfall Woods, Brecon Beacons In the south-west hills of the Brecon Beacons , near Ystradfellte, you'll find some of the most amazing waterfall plunge pools in Britain.
  • (8) Although it is the world's biggest CO2 emitter and notorious for building the equivalent of a 400MW coal-fired power station every three days, it is also erecting 36 wind turbines a day and building a robust new electricity grid to send this power thousands of miles across the country from the deserts of the west to the cities of the east.
  • (9) In the international categories, a Nicaraguan company won the energy enterprise award for installing more than 400 kilowatt peak (kWp) of solar photovoltaic energy, often in rural areas without a national grid connection.
  • (10) Possibilities of differentiation between the two populations of lymphocytes are furthermore obtained by the grid electron microscopy and the important functional tests of the transformation of lymphocytes by means of unspecific and specific stimulants.
  • (11) Examinations of 202 patients (337 eyes) with different forms of macular dystrophies, such as idiopathic flat detachment of the retina in the macular area, central sclerotic dystrophy of the retina, tapetoretinal macular degeneration, outcome of local inflammation of pigmented epithelium, post-traumatic central chorioretinitis, etc., allowed to receive data confirming high information value of a method based on the phenomenon of dynamic scotoma of disadaptation as compared with examinations on the Amsler's grid and campimetry.
  • (12) Detailed analysis of microsphere distribution in a cubic centimeter of normal liver and the calculation of dose to a 3-dimensional fine grid has shown that the radiation distribution created by the finite size and distribution of the microspheres results in an highly heterogeneous dose pattern.
  • (13) The grids are then placed in an easy-to-make plastic chamber so that the formvar does not get ruptured during drying.
  • (14) The MPB device showed better SNRs by a factor of 1.25 compared to the grid and air gap which were approximately equal to each other.
  • (15) The Grid confirmed on Friday morning that it had secured the 45 gigawatts (GW) of back-up power generation it wants to meet peak periods of electricity demand starting in 2019.
  • (16) The positive and negative conditioned stimuli were tones of different frequency, and the unconditioned stimulus (UCS) was shock delivered through the grid floor of a rotating-wheel conditioning apparatus.
  • (17) In this study, RBCs from bluetongue (BLU) virus-infected sheep were adsorbed directly onto Formvar-coated, gold electron microscope grids.
  • (18) A dermoviability index was calculated for each grid.
  • (19) China committed for the first time to stop emissions from growing by 2030 and to get 20% of its power from non-fossil fuel sources – about the equivalent of two-thirds of the entire US electrical grid.
  • (20) The grid was then stained with a small drop of phosphotungstate and observed electron microscopically.

Grim


Definition:

  • (Compar.) Of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly; cruel; frightful; horrible.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is the grim Fury on a rainy winter morning in Cannes.
  • (2) The level of prescribing of opioid painkillers – Percocet in Geni’s case – has soared, and with it the incidence of addiction, and addiction’s grim best friend: fatal overdoses.
  • (3) Patients with anti-NC1 antibodies were characterised by linear immune deposits along the glomerular basement membrane and the clinical outcome was invariably grim.
  • (4) The Mail branded the deal "a grim day for all who value freedom" and, like the Times, accused David Cameron of crossing the Rubicon and threatening press freedom for the first time since newspapers were licensed in the 17th century.
  • (5) ARD TV showing grim-faced FDP cadres: could this be the first time they fall out of national parliament in 60 years?
  • (6) It has said a better productivity performance and rising North Sea oil revenues will make the budgetary position less grim.
  • (7) Shields accepted that the Irish appeared more inclined to send up their grim fiscal situation than go out and riot.
  • (8) Inside the Islamic State ‘capital’: no end in sight to its grim rule Read more The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia and an alliance of rebels known as the “Euphrates Volcano” – backed US-led coalition air strikes – have seized swaths of territory from Isis, including the strategic border town of Tal Abyad .
  • (9) Yet, if that flurry of form pepped optimism, the injuries and displays in recent friendlies have provided a grim reality check.
  • (10) The dark, luxury air in the silent bedrooms of empty riverside apartments, their identical curving blocks clustered in threes and fours, grim and silent as gill slits, will be theirs.
  • (11) Chinese media and bloggers published images of three young children in blue school uniforms lying dead on the pavement – a grim echo of the high casualty rate at poorly constructed schools in Sichuan in 2008, when a bigger quake killed 87,000 people.
  • (12) The BCC survey represents a turnround from the end of last year, when it was predicting stagflation – a grim combination of zero growth and inflation.
  • (13) The human rights organisation, which has produced a series of in-depth reports detailing the grim working conditions of many of the 1.5 million migrant labourers engaged in a huge construction boom, said “little has changed in law, policy and practice” since the government promised limited reforms 12 months ago.
  • (14) Carcinoma of unknown histogenesis or primary site is an increasingly recognized syndrome regarded by most physicians as having a grim prognosis.
  • (15) "There are times when a swingeing sentence can act as a deterrent", as the judge at the trial was grimly to pronounce.
  • (16) The footage beamed back from the liberated districts of Ramadi is grim: a ghost town littered with debris and smashed concrete, destroyed storefronts, plumes of smoke, the sound of gunfire piercing the air as Iraqi soldiers speak on camera.
  • (17) It was my shortcomings as coach that caused this result,” said a grim-faced South Korea manager, Hong Myung-bo, who spent most of the post-match press-conference scratching his nose in apparent distress and deflecting comments about whether he would stay on as manager until next year’s Asian Cup.
  • (18) After grim news on the recession, at least one thing should become clearer: going back to where we were is no longer an option.
  • (19) While deplorable and to a degree self-defeating, this insouciant defiance also makes a grim kind of sense, both historically and reinforced by recent events.
  • (20) The entity carries a grim visual prognosis, as all ten eyes initially had no perception of light; improvement to light perception occurred in one instance.