Meaning

5 senses
  1. (transitive)To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars.

    to grate a window

    furnish with a grate

  2. (transitive)To shred (things, usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater.

    I need to grate the cheese before the potato is cooked.

    reiben

    тере́тьterétʹ, натира́тьnatirátʹ, натере́тьnaterétʹ

    те́ртиtérty, натира́тиnatyráty, нате́ртиnatérty

  3. (intransitive)To make an unpleasant rasping sound, often as the result of rubbing against something.

    Listening to his teeth grate all day long drives me mad.

    The chalk grated against the board.

    make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together

  4. (broadly, intransitive)To get on one's nerves; to irritate, annoy.

    She’s nice enough, but she can begin to grate if there is no-one else to talk to.

  5. (broadly, transitive)To annoy.

    2015, Art Levy in Florida Trend, Roland Martin is a Florida 'Icon' one of the issues that's kind of grating me a little bit is weed control.

Examples

41 sentences
  1. Tom grated the cheese.

    deTom rieb den Käse.

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  2. Do we have grated cheese?

    ruУ нас есть тёртый сыр?

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  3. Tom's whole manner grates on me.

    Томова манера триматися мене дратує.

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  4. Tom's wide-eyed optimism is beginning to grate on my nerves.

    Наївний оптимізм Тома починає діяти мені на нерви.

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  5. Grate the cheese.

    ruНатрите сыр.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
cooking: to shred by rubbing:
Русский
By meaning 1
cooking: to shred by rubbing:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
cooking: to shred by rubbing:

Origin

From Middle English grate, from a Medieval Latin crāta, from a Latin word for a hurdle; or

From Middle English grate, from a Medieval Latin crāta, from a Latin word for a hurdle; or Italian grata, from Latin cratis.

From Middle English graten, from Old French grater (“to scrape”) ( > French gratter), from Frankish *krattōn, from Proto-Germanic *krattōną. Cognate with Old High German krazzon ( > German kratzen (“to scrawl”) > Danish kradse), Icelandic krassa (“to scrawl”) and Danish kratte.

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Forms

grates, grating, grated, grated
Base formgrate · to grate
3rd person singulargrates
Present participlegrating
Past simplegrated
Past participlegrated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theygrate
he, she, itgrates

Past simpleLesson

all personsgrated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave grated
he, she, ithas grated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill grate

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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