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Grating vs Grillwork - What's the difference?

grating | grillwork |

As nouns the difference between grating and grillwork

is that grating is a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air while grillwork is the mesh of metal wire or bars which makes up a decorative metal grating.

As an adjective grating

is (typically of a voice) harsh and unpleasant.

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)

    • grillwork

    English

    Noun

  • The mesh of metal wire or bars which makes up a decorative metal grating
  • *{{quote-news, 2009, January 21, Dwight Garner, The Joys and Pains of Being an Animal, New York Times citation
    • , passage=Activists soften the steel, and then I can bend it into pretty grillwork and make reforms. }}

    See also

    *(wikipedia "grillwork")