Grate vs Grave - What's the difference?
grate | grave |
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
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(by extension, transitive, obsolete) To annoy.
* Shakespeare
An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher.
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* 1856 , Eleanor Marx-Aveling (translator), (Gustave Flaubert) (author), (Madame Bovary) , Part III, Chapter X:
death, destruction.
(obsolete) To dig.
* (rfdate) (Book of Prayer) , (Psalms) 7:16:
(obsolete) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
* (w) 28:9:
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* (rfdate) (Robert Louis Stevenson), Requiem :
(obsolete) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.
* (rfdate) (Geoffrey Chaucer):
(obsolete) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
* (rfdate) (Matthew Prior):
(obsolete) To entomb; to bury.
* (rfdate), (William Shakespeare):
(transitive, obsolete, nautical) To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch — so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.
(obsolete) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
(obsolete) Influential, important; authoritative.
*, II.3.7:
Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful, sombre.
Low in pitch, tone etc.
* (rfdate) (Moore), Encyclopedia of Music :
Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.
A written accent used in French, Italian, and other languages. è is an e with a grave accent.
As a verb grate
is to cry or weep.As a noun grave is
cave, den, lair.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.
Derived terms
* grater * grating * gratings * grate uponEtymology 3
(etyl) (lena) .References
Anagrams
* ----grave
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) . Related to (l).Noun
(en noun)- He had lain in the grave four days.
- They reached the cemetery. The men went right down to a place in the grass where a grave was dug. They ranged themselves all round; and while the priest spoke, the red soil thrown up at the sides kept noiselessly slipping down at the corners.
Derived terms
* begrave * dance on someone's grave * dig one's own grave * early grave * graveclothes * grave marker * grave robber * graverobbing * gravedigger * gravelike * graveside * gravesite * gravestone * graveward * mass grave * turn in one's grave * war grave * white man's graveSee also
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Verb
- He hath graven and digged up a pit.
- Thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel.
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- This be the verse you grave for me / "Here he lies where he longs to be"
- With gold men may the hearte grave .
- O! may they graven in thy heart remain.
- Lie full low, graved in the hollow ground.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Adjective
(er)- An illiterate fool sits in a mans seat; and the common people hold him learned, grave , and wise.
- ''The thicker the cord or string, the more grave is the note or tone.