grate

Significat

Noun

1. A horizontal metal grill through which liquid, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot.
2. A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning.
3. A grapper, a metal ring on a lance behind the grip.

Verb

To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars.

Verb

1. To shred (things, usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater.
2. To make an unpleasant rasping sound, often as the result of rubbing against something.
3. To get on one's nerves; to irritate, annoy.
4. To annoy.

Adj

Serving to gratify; agreeable.

Adj

Obsolete spelling of great.

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ɡɹeɪt/

Etimologia

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

Sents

The great rulers found the squeaky grate was grating on their nerves .