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Grating vs Guttural - What's the difference?

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Grating is a related term of guttural.


As adjectives the difference between grating and guttural

is that grating is (typically of a voice) harsh and unpleasant while guttural is sounding harsh and throaty.

As nouns the difference between grating and guttural

is that grating is a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air while guttural is a harsh and throaty spoken sound.

As a verb grating

is .

grating

English

(wikipedia grating)

Adjective

(head)
  • (typically of a voice) harsh and unpleasant
  • abrasive; tending to annoy

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
    • Add a few gratings of nutmeg to the hot milk.
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * grill

    Related terms

    * grate

    Verb

    (head)

    • guttural

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Sounding harsh and throaty.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
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  • (label) Articulated at the back of the mouth.
  • Of, relating to, or connected to the throat.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A harsh and throaty spoken sound
  • * {{quote-book, year=1899, author=Stanley Waterloo, title=The Wolf's Long Howl, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He was hairy, and his speech of rough gutturals was imperfect.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1912, author=Frederic Stewart Isham, title=A Man and His Money, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He seems quite an exception to some husbands in that respect!" remarked the Berliner in deep gutturals .}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1919, author=Edgar Rice Burroughs, title=Jungle Tales of Tarzan, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Teeka is Tarzan's," said the ape-man, in the low gutturals of the great anthropoids.}}