Raster vs Grate - What's the difference?
raster | grate |
A scanning pattern of parallel lines that form the display of an image projected on a cathode-ray tube of a television set or display screen.
A bitmap image, consisting of a grid of pixels, stored as a sequence of lines.
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
* , chapter=7
, title= (by extension) To ; to irritate or annoy.
(by extension, transitive, obsolete) To annoy.
* Shakespeare
As a noun raster
is a scanning pattern of parallel lines that form the display of an image projected on a cathode-ray tube of a television set or display screen.As a verb grate is
to cry or weep.raster
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(wikipedia raster)Noun
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*Anagrams
* * * * ----grate
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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.