The difference between Football and Gridiron

When used as nouns, football means a sport played on foot in which teams attempt to get a ball into a goal or zone defended by the other team, whereas gridiron means an instrument of torture on which people were secured before being burned by fire.

Gridiron is also verb with the meaning: to mark or cover with lines.

check bellow for the other definitions of Football and Gridiron

  1. Football as a noun (general):

    A sport played on foot in which teams attempt to get a ball into a goal or zone defended by the other team.

    Examples:

    "Roman and medieval football matches were more violent than any modern type of football."

  2. Football as a noun (UK, uncountable):

    Association football: a game in which two teams each contend to get a round ball into the other team's goal primarily by kicking the ball. Known as soccer in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.

    Examples:

    "Each team scored three goals when they played football."

  3. Football as a noun (US, uncountable):

    American football: a game played on a field of 100 yards long and 53 1/3 yards wide in which two teams of 11 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.

    Examples:

    "Each team scored two touchdowns when they played football."

  4. Football as a noun (Canada, uncountable):

    Canadian football: a game played on a played on a field of 110 yards long and 65 yards wide in which two teams of 12 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.

    Examples:

    "They played football in the snow."

  5. Football as a noun (Australia, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, Northern Territory, uncountable):

    Australian rules football.

  6. Football as a noun (Ireland, uncountable):

    Gaelic football: a field game played with similar rules to hurling, but using hands and feet rather than a stick, and a ball, similar to, yet smaller than a soccer ball.

  7. Football as a noun (Australia, New South Wales, Queensland, uncountable):

    rugby league.

  8. Football as a noun (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand):

    rugby union.

  9. Football as a noun (countable):

    The ball used in any game called "football".

    Examples:

    "The player kicked the football."

  10. Football as a noun (uncountable):

    Practice of these particular games, or techniques used in them.

  11. Football as a noun (figuratively, countable):

    An item of discussion, particularly in a back-and-forth manner

    Examples:

    "That budget item became a political football."

  12. Football as a noun (slang, US, countable):

    The leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans, which is always near the US President.

  1. Gridiron as a noun:

    An instrument of torture on which people were secured before being burned by fire.

  2. Gridiron as a noun:

    An iron rack or grate used for broiling meat and fish over coals.

  1. Gridiron as a noun:

    Any object resembling the rack or grate.

  2. Gridiron as a noun (nautical):

    An openwork frame on which vessels are placed for examination, cleaning, and repairs.

  3. Gridiron as a noun (American football):

    The field on which American football is played.

  4. Gridiron as a noun (uncountable):

    American football.

  5. Gridiron as a noun (uncountable, Australia, and, New Zealand):

    A generic term for American and Canadian football, particularly when used to distinguish from other codes of football.

  1. Gridiron as a verb:

    To mark or cover with lines; to crisscross.

  2. Gridiron as a verb (NZ, historical):

    To purchase land so that the remaining adjacent sections are smaller than the minimum area purchasable as freehold, thus excluding potential freeholders.

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