verb
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To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars
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to grate a window
verb
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To shred (things, usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater
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I need to grate the cheese before the potato is cooked.
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To make an unpleasant rasping sound, often as the result of rubbing against something
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Listening to his teeth grate all day long drives me mad.
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(by extension) to get on one's nerves; to irritate, annoy
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She’s nice enough, but she can begin to grate if there is no-one else to talk to.
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(by extension) to annoy
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A barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air.
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A frame of iron bars to hold a fire.
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The loose material that comes from something being grated.
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Add a few gratings of nutmeg to the hot milk.
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An optical system of close equidistant and parallel lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing spectra by diffraction.
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(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.
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The sound made by something that grates against something else.
adjective
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(typically of a voice) Harsh and unpleasant.
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Abrasive; tending to annoy.
Examples of grating in a Sentence
The heavy door opened with a grating sound.
The grating iron door made him jump.
He has also shown how to rule a plane surface with lines so disposed that the grating shall of itself give well-focused spectra.
This is the ordinary formula for a reflecting plane grating, and it shows that the spectra are formed in the usual directions.
There is also some uncertainty as to the actual temperature of the grating when in use.
To eliminate the light returned from the hinder surface of an engraved grating, he covered it with a black varnish.
It was formerly the custom in our village, when a poor debtor came out of jail, for his acquaintances to salute him, looking through their fingers, which were crossed to represent the grating of a jail window, "How do ye do?"
His interests in the fiber optic sensors field include fiber optic chemical sensors, and, in particular, fiber grating sensors.
Once you have the horseshoe you may obtain iron coins from beneath the grating - for the shoe is in reality a horseshoe magnet.
A low monotone or a high-pitched voice can be difficult to understand or grating to the ears.
Season the meat sauce with salt and pepper and add some oregano, basil and a grating of nutmeg.
If using the zest, scrub the skin thoroughly and avoid cutting or grating too deeply - the bitter white pith is best avoided.
They lifted the steel grating, pulling back its securing chain like raising a tiny portcullis.
Ian Anderson's voice is so grating, growling his extremely pretentious lyrics.
Since the energy response and spectral resolution of the two grating assemblies differ, separation of the output may be important for some observers.
The deeply grooved surface formed by the highly blazed grating provides a novel route to finding deep cavity resonances with thin structures.
Channels and channels of harsh, grating white noise reverberated through his aching head like a monkey high on coffee.
Comment This contains the width of the mask used to extract the grating spectra from the LE image.
Cross disperser a low dispersion prism or grating separating the various orders of spectra typically in an echelle spectrograph.
The spectrometer more commonly used for astronomical work is the grating spectrometer more commonly used for astronomical work is the grating spectrometer.
These devices work in a different manner to the more familiar grating spectrometer.
No more taunts on my " intellect, " no more menaces of grating public shows!
If the one set of lines exactly bisect the intervals between the others, the grating interval is practically halved, and the previously existing spectra of odd order vanish.
If a retarding plate be now inserted so as to operate upon the pulses which come from one side of the grating, while leaving the remainder unaffected, we have to consider what happens at the focal point chosen.
By introducing the concave grating which (see Diffraction Of Light, § 8) allows US to dispense with all lenses, Rowland produced a revolution in spectroscopic measurement.
It seemed to me that I never had heard the town-clock strike before, nor the evening sounds of the village; for we slept with the windows open, which were inside the grating.
At last my sodden shirt came free from the grating with a damp ripping sound.
The grating substrates have a sagittal radius of 60 cm.
The spectrometer more commonly used for astronomical work is the grating spectrometer.
No more taunts on my " intellect, " no more menaces of grating public shows !
He has a less than endearing personality and ends up grating on other characters due to his tendency to show off and seem important.
The shredding disc is used primarily for grating cheese and shredding vegetables.
This flavorful cheese is not just for grating.
However, silver is a softer metal, so the sound is bright and crisp without being too brash or grating.
Around five and up, grating and peeling are pretty safe (with precautions).
Indirect radiators are placed beneath the floor of the apartment to be heated and give off heat through a grating.
Cesareo; this is a marble altar richly decorated with mosaic in sculptured panels, and (below) two angels drawing back a curtain (all in marble) so as to expose the open grating of the confessio.
He was also the inventor of the diffraction grating.
The best object for examination is a grating of fine wires, about fifty to the inch, backed by a sodium flame.
One of these, of width equal, say, to one-tenth of an inch, is inserted in front of the object-glass, and the telescope, carefully focused all the while, is drawn gradually back from the grating until the lines are no longer seen.
Observing through a telescope with light perpendicularly incident, he showed that the position of any ray was dependent only upon the grating interval, viz.
In different gratings the lengths of the spectra and their distances from the axis were inversely proportional to the grating interval, while with a given grating the distances of the various spectra from the axis were as i, 2, 3, &c. To Fraunhofer we owe the first accurate measurements of wave-lengths, and the method of separating the overlapping spectra by a prism dispersing in the perpendicular direction.
The directions of the lateral spectra are such that the passage from one element of the grating to the corresponding point of the next implies a retardation of an integral number of wave-lengths.
If the grating be composed of alternate transparent and opaque parts, the question may be treated by means of the general integrals (§ 3) by merely limiting the integration to the transparent parts of the aperture.
We conclude that, with a grating composed of transparent and opaque parts, the utmost light obtainable in any one spectrum is in the first, and there amounts to I/wr 2, or about 6, and that for this purpose W a and d must be equal.
The light stopped by the opaque parts of the grating, together with that distributed in the central image and lateral spectra, ought to make up the brightness that would be found in the central image, were all the apertures transparent.
Babinet, the brightness of a lateral spectrum is not affected by an interchange of the transparent and opaque parts of the grating.
In an engraved glass grating there is no opaque material present by which light could be absorbed, and the effect depends upon a difference of retardation in passing the alternate parts.
If it were possible to introduce at every part of the aperture of the grating an arbitrary retardation, all the light might be concentrated in any desired spectrum.
Michelson's ingenious echelon grating constitutes a realization in an unexpected manner of what was thought to be impracticable.