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Grate vs Gnash - What's the difference?

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Grate is a related term of gnash.


As verbs the difference between grate and gnash

is that grate is to cry or weep while gnash is to grind (one's teeth) in pain or in anger.

grate

English

Etymology 1

(lena) grata, from (etyl) word for a hurdle; or (etyl) grata, of the same origin.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A horizontal metal grille through which water, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot.
    • The grate stopped the sheep from escaping from their field.
  • * Shakespeare
    • a secret grate of iron bars
  • A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning.
    • Synonyms
    * grille

    Verb

  • To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars.
    • to grate a window

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) Etymology] of kradse in [[:w:da:ODS, ODS] and Danish kratte.

    Verb

  • (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
    • 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.
  • * , chapter=7
    • , title= 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.}}
  • (by extension) To ; to irritate or annoy.
  • (by extension, transitive, obsolete) To annoy.
  • * Shakespeare
    • News, my good lord Rome grates me.
    Derived terms
    * grater * grating * gratings * grate upon

    Etymology 3

    (etyl) (lena) .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Serving to gratify; agreeable.

    • References

    Anagrams

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    gnash

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • To grind (one's teeth) in pain or in anger.
    • to gnash the teeth
  • To grind between the teeth.
    • to gnash the air in fury
    to gnash a carpet
  • (Geordie) To run away

    • Derived terms

    * gnasher/gnashers * gnashy

    Anagrams

    * English terms with homophones