Inspired by the results of Jonas, Einsenhart, Demoulin, and Bianchi on the permutability property of classical geometrical transformations of conjugate nets and its reductions-of pseudo-orthogonal, pseudo-symmetric, and pseudo-Egorov typesdressing transformations of the N-component KP hierarchy ͑described within the Grassmannian͒ are used to generate quadrilateral lattices and its corresponding reductions. As a byproduct we get the corresponding discrete dressing transformations; in particular, we characterize the vectorial fundamental discrete transformations preserving the symmetric lattice.