grating

Meaning of grating

verb
  1. To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars
    to grate a window
verb
  1. To shred (things, usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater
    I need to grate the cheese before the potato is cooked.
  2. 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.
  3. (by extension) 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.
  4. (by extension) to annoy
noun
  1. A barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air.
  2. 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.
adjective
  1. (typically of a voice) Harsh and unpleasant.
  2. Abrasive; tending to annoy.

Information about grating

  • The plural form of grating is: gratings.
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Hyphenation of grating

grat-ing

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • grating is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

grating synonyms

Meaning gravel:

gravel, gravelly, rasping, raspy, rough, scratchy

Meaning grate:

grate

Meaning :

grill

Anagrams of grating

targing

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