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Graving vs Grating - What's the difference?

graving | grating |

As verbs the difference between graving and grating

is that graving is while grating is .

As nouns the difference between graving and grating

is that graving is the act of cleaning a ship's bottom while grating is a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air.

As an adjective grating is

(typically of a voice) harsh and unpleasant.

graving

English

Verb

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  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of cleaning a ship's bottom.
  • (obsolete) An engraving.
  • * Bible (Douay version), 3 Kings vii. 28
  • And the work itself of the bases, was intergraven: and there were gravings between the joinings.

    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

    Verb

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