Grating vs Grate - What's the difference?
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(typically of a voice) harsh and unpleasant
abrasive; tending 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.
An optical system of close equidistant and parallel lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing spectra by diffraction.
(nautical, 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.
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
Grate is a derived term of grating.
Grate is a related term of grating.
As adjectives the difference between grating and grate
is that grating is (typically of a voice) harsh and unpleasant while grate is serving to gratify; agreeable.As nouns the difference between grating and grate
is that grating is a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air while grate is a horizontal metal grille through which water, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot.As verbs the difference between grating and grate
is that grating is present participle of lang=en while grate is to furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars.grating
English
(wikipedia grating)Adjective
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Add a few gratings of nutmeg to the hot milk.
Synonyms
* grillVerb
(head)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.