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Rating vs Grating - What's the difference?

rating | grating |

As verbs the difference between rating and grating

is that rating is while grating is .

As nouns the difference between rating and grating

is that rating is a position on a scale 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.

rating

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A position on a scale
  • An evaluation of status, especially of financial status
  • They have a poor credit rating .
  • A number, letter, or other mark that refers to the ability of something.
  • He has a high chess rating .
  • (nautical) A seaman in a warship
  • *2014 , BBC News, Huge Russian warship fascinates French in Saint-Nazaire
  • *:Some 400 Russian ratings are living in the western French port, awaiting delivery of their controversial new command-and-control ship, the Vladivostok.
  • (nautical) The status of a seaman, corresponding to rank in officers.
  • * In the Royal Navy the ratings, in order, are:- ordinary seaman, able seaman, leading seaman, petty officer and chief petty officer
  • Anagrams

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    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

    (head)