grating
A barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting airA barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air.
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» Something is grating on her nerves.
Что-то действует ей на нервы. — Hellerick
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Examples
7 sentencesSomething is grating on her nerves.
ruЧто-то действует ей на нервы. — Hellerick
That music is grating on my nerves.
A cacophony is a mixture of grating noises.
Meaning
6 sensesA 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
A frame of iron bars to hold a fire.
a frame of iron bars to hold a fire
(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.
More meanings 3
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.
The sound made by something that grates against something else.
Origin
From grat(e) + -ing.From grat(e) + -ing.
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Forms
plural: gratingsSynonyms
2 synonyms- a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air:grate
- a frame of iron bars to hold a fire:grate
- 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
Word family
3 related wordsSee also
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