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Grating   /grˈeɪtɪŋ/   Listen
Grating

adjective
1.
Unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound.  Synonyms: gravelly, rasping, raspy, rough, scratchy.
noun
1.
A barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air.  Synonym: grate.
2.
A frame of iron bars to hold a fire.  Synonym: grate.
3.
Optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it; disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum.  Synonym: diffraction grating.


Grate

verb
(past & past part. grated; pres. part. grating)
1.
Furnish with a grate.
2.
Gnaw into; make resentful or angry.  Synonyms: eat into, fret, rankle.  "His resentment festered"
3.
Reduce to small shreds or pulverize by rubbing against a rough or sharp perforated surface.  "Grate nutmeg"
4.
Make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together.  Synonym: grind.
5.
Scratch repeatedly.  Synonym: scrape.



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"Grating" Quotes from Famous Books



... besides which many visitors not of the faith come hither to worship in the beautiful chapel, and to try to obtain glimpses of the fair recluses. Having once taken the veil, these nuns never again leave the precincts. They attend the services in a gallery concealed by a grating; they take exercise in a high-walled garden; when they die they are buried in the convent cemetery. There cannot fail to be a touch of sadness in thinking of these ladies thus secluded from the "stir of existence," severed ...
— The Cornwall Coast • Arthur L. Salmon
... current pitched into her till the water entered the hawse-holes. Pitching, and swinging, and dashed about in this fearful manner for some time, the anchor was at length disengaged, and dragged along the bottom with a grating noise, which, with the roaring of the rapid, and the whistling of the wind through the rigging, formed a combination of sounds that would have appalled the most resolute. The fog having cleared away, we discovered a point projecting far into the river, some two hundred yards below, towards ...
— Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory - Volume II. (of 2) • John M'lean
... gloomily, "who did not know if we should ever meet again; also, my prison is underground, where but little light comes through a grating, and there are rats in it which will not let a man sleep, so I must lie awake the most of the night thinking of you. But where ...
— Fair Margaret • H. Rider Haggard
... in the evening. He used to run out just before midnight to post them in the nearest pillar-box. And that was all that ever came of it. In his own words: he might just as well have dropped them all properly addressed and stamped into the sewer grating. ...
— Chance • Joseph Conrad
... it, reported to the jailer, who sent Daley to answer it. As soon as the door was opened, he rushed past, and succeeded in gaining the iron door that opened into the vestibule, where he could converse with the Jailer, through the grating, before ...
— Manuel Pereira • F. C. Adams


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