grate

Significado (Inglés)

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.

Conceptos

rallar

reja

rechinar

raspar

chirriar

rejilla

amargar

rascar

enrejar

alambrera

consumir

emparrillado

enrejado

hogar

parrilla

rozar

verja

arañar

carcomer

roer

supurar

triturar

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ɡɹeɪt/

Etimología (Inglés)

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

Oraciones

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

Los grandes gobernantes encontraron que la rejilla chirriante estaba rallado en sus nervios.