To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars Example: to grate a window
To shred (things, usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater Example: I need to grate the cheese before the potato is cooked.
To make an unpleasant rasping sound, often as the result of rubbing against something Example: Listening to his teeth grate all day long drives me mad.
(by extension) to get on one's nerves; to irritate, annoy Example: She’s nice enough, but she can begin to grate if there is no-one else to talk to.
(by extension) to annoy
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. Example: 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.
(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.
The sound made by something that grates against something else.
(typically of a voice) Harsh and unpleasant.
Abrasive; tending to annoy.
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