Meaning

6 senses
  1. A barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air.

    Gitter

    решёткаrešótka

    реші́ткаrešítka, ґра́тиgráty, кра́таkráta

    a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air

  2. A frame of iron bars to hold a fire.

    a frame of iron bars to hold a fire

  3. The loose material that comes from something being grated.

    Add a few gratings of nutmeg to the hot milk.

  4. An optical system of close equidistant and parallel lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing spectra by diffraction.

  5. (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.

  6. The sound made by something that grates against something else.

Examples

7 sentences
  1. Something is grating on her nerves.

    ruЧто-то действует ей на нервы.

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  2. That music is grating on my nerves.

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  3. A cacophony is a mixture of grating noises.

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  4. Be careful when grating.

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  5. I can imagine grinding sesame seeds, but it's hard for me to picture grating them.

    deIch kann mir schon vorstellen, Sesam zu mahlen, ihn aber zu raspeln eher nicht.

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Translations

7 languages
Українська
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barrier:
Русский
By meaning 1
barrier:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
barrier:

Origin

From grat(e) + -ing.

From grat(e) + -ing.

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Forms

plural: gratings
Singulargrating
Pluralgratings

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • 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:diffraction grating
  • a frame of iron bars to hold a fire:grate
  • a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air:grate

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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