Appreciate vs Grate - What's the difference?
appreciate | grate |
to be grateful or thankful for.
to view as valuable.
to be fully conscious of; be aware of; detect.
* Lubbock
to increase in value.
* Ramsay
A horizontal metal grille through which water, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot.
* Shakespeare
A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning.
To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars.
(cooking) To shred things, usually foodstuffs, by rubbing across a grater.
To rub against, making a (usually unpleasant) squeaking sound.
* 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part 3 Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
* , chapter=7
, title= (by extension) To ; to irritate or annoy.
(by extension, transitive, obsolete) To annoy.
* Shakespeare
In transitive terms the difference between appreciate and grate
is that appreciate is to increase in value while grate is to furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars.As a noun grate is
a horizontal metal grille through which water, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot.As an adjective grate is
serving to gratify; agreeable.appreciate
English
Alternative forms
* (archaic)Verb
(appreciat)- I appreciate your efforts
- You must learn to appreciate time
- To test the power of bees to appreciate color.
- to test the power of bees to appreciate colour
- The value of his portfolio appreciated by 80% over eight years.
- lest a sudden peace should appreciate the money
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . SeeSynonyms
* esteem * estimate * understandAntonyms
* depreciateReferences
* * * * *grate
English
Etymology 1
(lena) grata, from (etyl) word for a hurdle; or (etyl) grata, of the same origin.Noun
(en noun)- The grate stopped the sheep from escaping from their field.
- a secret grate of iron bars
Synonyms
* grilleVerb
- to grate a window
Etymology 2
From (etyl)Etymology] of kradse in [[:w:da:ODS, ODS]and Danish kratte.
Verb
- The gate suddenly grated . It was Lestiboudois; he came to fetch his spade, that he had forgotten. He recognised Justin climbing over the wall, and at last knew who was the culprit who stole his potatoes.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.}}
- News, my good lord Rome grates me.