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Grating   /grˈeɪtɪŋ/   Listen
Grating

adjective
1.
Unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound.  Synonyms: gravelly, rasping, raspy, rough, scratchy.
noun
1.
A barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air.  Synonym: grate.
2.
A frame of iron bars to hold a fire.  Synonym: grate.
3.
Optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it; disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum.  Synonym: diffraction grating.


Grate

verb
(past & past part. grated; pres. part. grating)
1.
Furnish with a grate.
2.
Gnaw into; make resentful or angry.  Synonyms: eat into, fret, rankle.  "His resentment festered"
3.
Reduce to small shreds or pulverize by rubbing against a rough or sharp perforated surface.  "Grate nutmeg"
4.
Make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together.  Synonym: grind.
5.
Scratch repeatedly.  Synonym: scrape.



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"Grating" Quotes from Famous Books



... wished to do to him, once upset. But it was not to be. Even as I reached for his throat I perceived that the light of the window was undergoing an eclipse. A compact form had wriggled out on to the sill, as I had done, and I heard the grating of his shoes on the wall as he lowered himself for ...
— The Little Nugget • P.G. Wodehouse
... gestured toward two of his men, who remained, while the others walked quickly away. The diminished party stepped through the doorway into a small room whose walls were lined with copper, and an instant later, as the officer pushed a small button, there was a low hiss of escaping air, and a copper grating sprang quickly up across the opening of the elevator. He touched another button, and there was the familiar sinking feeling as the car rose, a low hum seeming to come ...
— The Black Star Passes • John W Campbell
... bags on the stern grating that had been freshly soused with seawater as the Active steamed away from Marichchikkaddi contained a wealth of pearls. In the cool of the early morning I would subsidize the eight native sailors, getting them to open the shelled treasures, while I garnered the pearls. ...
— East of Suez - Ceylon, India, China and Japan • Frederic Courtland Penfield
... use of this point which the larva leaves bare instead of inlaying it like the rest of the shell? What is the use of that hole, left quite open or, at most, closed at the bottom with a feeble grating of silk? The insect appears to attach great importance to it, from what I see. In point of fact, I watch the careful work of the apex. The grub, whose movements the hole enables me to follow, patiently perfects the lower end of the conical channel, polishes it and gives it an exactly circular ...
— Bramble-bees and Others • J. Henri Fabre
... where Jean V was imprisoned. In the men's dungeon we saw the large double hook that was used for executions; and we touched curiously with our fingers the door of the women's prison. It is about four inches thick and is plated with heavy iron bars. In the middle is a little grating that was used to throw in whatever was necessary to prevent the captive from starving. It was this grating which opened instead of the door, which, being the mouth of the most terrible confessions, was one of those that always closed but ...
— Over Strand and Field • Gustave Flaubert


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