grill

/gril/

Thân thiện

He cooks hamburgers on the grill in the backyard.

Definition

1. Noun:

   • A cooking device: A framework of metal bars used for cooking food over direct heat, often fueled by gas, charcoal, or electricity.
   • A restaurant: A restaurant that specializes in food cooked on such a device.

2. Verb:

   • To cook: To cook food on a grill.
   • To question intensely: To subject someone to intense and persistent questioning.

Examples

• Noun:

  • We need to clean the grill before the barbecue.
  • Let's meet at the new steak grill for dinner.

• Verb:

  • I will grill some vegetables for the salad.
  • The detective grilled the suspect for hours.

Advanced Usage

• "To put someone on the grill": To subject someone to intense questioning or scrutiny.

  • The journalists put the politician on the grill about the scandal.

• "Grill marks": The characteristic charred lines left on food from the metal bars of a grill.

  • The chef was proud of the perfect grill marks on the steak.

Variants and Related Words

• Grilling (noun): The act of cooking on a grill or of questioning someone intensely.

  • The grilling of the witness lasted all afternoon.

• Griller (noun): A person who grills food or a device used for grilling.

  • He is an expert griller.

Synonyms

• Noun (device): Barbecue, broiler, gridiron.
• Verb (cook): Barbecue, broil, charbroil.
• Verb (question): Interrogate, cross-examine, quiz.

Related Phrasal Verbs

• Grill someone about something: To question someone intensely about a specific topic.
  • My parents grilled me about where I had been.

Related Idioms

• "Grill to perfection": To cook something on a grill until it is perfectly done.

  • He knows how to grill a burger to perfection.

• "Too hot to handle" (contextual for grilling): Used metaphorically for a situation or question that is as intense as a hot grill.

  • The reporter's question was too hot to handle, putting the CEO on the grill.

Học thuật

Noun

1. a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate
   • he cooked hamburgers on the grill
2. a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill

Verb

1. examine thoroughly
   • the student was grilled for two hours on the subject of phonology
2. cook over a grill
   • grill the sausages

Từ đồng nghĩa

• grille
• grillwork
• grillroom