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Grate vs Grame - What's the difference?

grate | grame |

As verbs the difference between grate and grame

is that grate is to cry or weep while grame is .

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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    grame

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) grame, gram, grome, from (etyl) . Related to (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Anger; wrath; scorn; bitterness; repugnance.
    • (Chaucer)
  • (obsolete) Sorrow; grief; misery.
    • (Chaucer)
  • * c. 1557 (published), Sir Thomas Wyatt, And Wilt Thou Leave me Thus? , lines 3 and 4:
    • To save thee from the blame / Of all my grief and grame .

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) gramen, gramien, from (etyl) gramian, .

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (gram)
  • (obsolete) To vex; grill; make angry or sorry.
  • (obsolete) To grieve; be sorry.
    • Related terms
    * (l) ----