grilles

noun

variants also grills
plural of grille
as in screens

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Recent Examples of grilles While charcoal grills are the affordable gold standard for many home cooks, gas grills can do nearly everything a charcoal grill can (just with slightly less smoky flavor). — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 July 2026 For gas grills, use indirect heat by leaving one burner off or lowering one side of the grill. — Staff, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026 This includes the kitchen fryer hood with five gas fryers, three griddle hoods with two grills per hood and one meat grill. — Molly Davis, Nashville Tennessean, 30 Oct. 2025
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  1. screens
  2. lattices
Noun
  • The mogul opened with stories from her childhood while screens behind her showed corresponding images.
    — Ariel Bielsky, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2026
  • These panels are all standard LED-backlit IPS screens in the company's Liquid Retina family, with custom resolutions for each specific product.
    — Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of screens
Noun
  • Kagome lattices take their name from a traditional Japanese basket-weaving pattern.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026
  • In one- and two-dimensional square lattices, mathematicians have long known that this transition is continuous.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of lattices

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