Hearth vs Grate - What's the difference?
hearth | grate |
A brick, stone or cement floor to a fireplace or oven.
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*:When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped?; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log across the andirons.
An open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire may be built.
The lowest part of a metallurgical furnace.
A symbol for home or family life.
(lb) A household or group following the modern pagan faith of Heathenry.
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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, title= (by extension) To ; to irritate or annoy.
(by extension, transitive, obsolete) To annoy.
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between hearth and grate
is that hearth is a brick, stone or cement floor to a fireplace or oven while grate is a horizontal metal grille through which water, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot.As a verb grate is
to furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars.As an adjective grate is
serving to gratify; agreeable.hearth
English
(wikipedia hearth)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (open recess at the base of a chimney where a fire may be built) fireplaceDerived terms
* hearth and home * hearthrug * hearthstoneAnagrams
*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.