The goal, according to Goldman, is a "gridlike" computing environment for users, and to make that happen he plans on using service-oriented architecture technology to include third-party applications to which users also need access.    From Wordnik.com.  [Directory News] Reference

We cross the border on a long, nasty bridge made of some gridlike material.    From Wordnik.com.  [Viggo Mortensen vs Evil Elf « raincoaster] Reference

Her eyes were still adjusting to the limited, gridlike visibility of the burqa, her feet still stumbling over the hem.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Thousand Splendid Suns]

"Ascended," a butterfly painting in a new gridlike configuration for Mr. Hirst, tripled its estimate to sell for £2.3 million.    From Wordnik.com.  [Damien Hirst Skips the Middleman] Reference

The towns along I-70 to Topeka and I-35 to Olathe spike off onto gridlike main thoroughfares dotted with every franchise in America.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bitter Harvest] Reference

It was anchored in two great cities along the Indus River, Harappa itself and Mohenjo-Daro, each carefully laid out in a gridlike pattern.    From Wordnik.com.  [C. Early Civilizations and Classical Empires of South and East Asia] Reference

Some of the grids and gridlike formations strike me as much better possibilities and MUCH harder to explain away as just geological formations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Posthuman Blues] Reference

The gridlike collection of stands and small stores got rebuilt and roofed over, so they could stay open during the week, and they began to thrive.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Am Not A Psychic!] Reference

Using a dough scraper or a pizza cutter, cut the shortbread in a gridlike pattern set to the size of cookies you want — mine are rarely the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

Spidey and the Fantastic 4 will star in less-violent story lines with panels that move in a gridlike pattern, instead of at angles, so they're easier to read.    From Wordnik.com.  [COMICS: THE NEXT ADVENTURE] Reference

Beyond the garden stretched a seemingly endless and somewhat overgrown meadow that created a striking counterpoint to the neat, gridlike vineyards and orchards surrounding it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Georgia’s Kitchen] Reference

Unlike Allen Blackthorne, Dan Parman was not only a businessman-but a philanthropist who wanted San Antonians to live in good houses in communities that provided more than endless flat land with gridlike lots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Every Breath You Take] Reference

Now available online, the Google Art reproduction makes it possible to see the faintest trace of white paint Whistler used to make his subject's eyes glisten, as well as the nubby, gridlike texture of the canvas underneath.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Treasures: Google Art Project unlocks riches of world's galleries] Reference

The cars were stuck at ground level, and limited by the streets themselves to gridlike patterns of movement; it took them far longer to get into position than it took her to alter course and render their best maneuvers irrelevant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sinister Six Combo]

Some of his layouts are arranged in a lovely gridlike fashion or have an innate orderliness, drawn with a crude, thick hand (actually, his linework and blocky lettering most closely resembles the work of political cartoonist Mark Alan Stamaty).    From Wordnik.com.  [2006 September : Scrubbles.net] Reference

Piet Mondrian's gridlike paintings, which he collects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloomberg] Reference

Boats and ground personnel are searching the river in a gridlike fashion, and DEEMIE personnel are making images from a helicopter.    From Wordnik.com.  [BangorDailyNews.com - News] Reference

The almost gridlike spaces suggest the insistent parent, constantly reminding the wandering child that family obligations come first.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Reader] Reference

Banach's stark, gridlike paintings in black and grays are based on the rise and fall of the ancient city of Ur in Mesopotamia, present day Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [timesunion.com: Local Breaking News] Reference

The superslim PC doesn't take up much room on a desk, but more important, its gridlike exterior design and hidden front-panel connection bay create a refined, industrial look.    From Wordnik.com.  [PC World] Reference

Gundlach, who favors custom-made Brioni suits, is equally at home opining on the nuances of the yield curve or the geometry of Piet Mondrian's gridlike paintings, which he collects.    From Wordnik.com.  [BusinessWeek.com --] Reference

The structure of their longer songs feels ­gridlike in the way techno can: a lattice of rhythm across which hooks, melodic snatches and Britt Daniel's prowling, ­impatient voice move.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference

The new 40-acre area and its gridlike road pattern will connect with the current City Center through a boulevard and include small, walkable blocks and a large public square at its core.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shad Plank] Reference

The bizarre markings spotted using Google Earth's new underwater search tool last week unleashed a tsunami of theories and speculation across the Web about the origins of the gridlike pattern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bits] Reference

The protagonist is an amnesiac robot looking for clues to his missing memory, which can apparently be regained only by gunning down mostly cubelike mechanical adversaries in gridlike battle arenas.    From Wordnik.com.  [GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features] Reference

Look at all jets in the sky leaving a long plume of exhaust vapor that doesn't disappear and leaves a pattern of gridlike streams that linger all day and change the deep-blue sky to an overcast day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ventura County Star Stories] Reference

Once the magnetic field is generated, Willowstick's scientists walk the ground between the probes in a gridlike pattern with an instrument that collects data about the frequencies it detects underground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American] Reference

What they must think of us, I don't know - their neat, ordered, gridlike streets, with a road sign on every junction, compared to our sprawling metropolises (metropoli?) featuring endless one way systems and road signs only when the council feel like it.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference

Newport News Notebook: Officials hope developer drops Oyster Point plans The new 40-acre area and its gridlike road pattern will connect with the current City Center through a boulevard and include small, walkable blocks and a large public square at its core.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

In one corner is a patch of peeling linoleum whose gridlike chipped layers echo the excavated surfaces of Mr. Bradford's paintings, a fusion of abstract patterns and fliers posted by local businesses offering cash for houses and hair, DNA testing and lawyers specializing in paternity suits.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference