grating
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Definitions ofgrating
- To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars
Example: "to grate a window"
- To shred (things, usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater
Example: "I need to grate the cheese before the potato is cooked."
- To make an unpleasant rasping sound, often as the result of rubbing against something
Example: "Listening to his teeth grate all day long drives me mad."
- (by extension) to get on one's nerves; to irritate, annoy
Example: "She’s nice enough, but she can begin to grate if there is no-one else to talk to."
- (by extension) to annoy
- A barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air.
- A frame of iron bars to hold a fire.
- The loose material that comes from something being grated.
Example: "Add a few gratings of nutmeg to the hot milk."
- An optical system of close equidistant and parallel lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing spectra by diffraction.
- (in the plural) The strong wooden lattice used to cover a hatch, admitting light and air; also, a movable lattice used for the flooring of boats.
- The sound made by something that grates against something else.
- (typically of a voice) Harsh and unpleasant.
- Abrasive; tending to annoy.
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