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Definitioner
Substantiv
- A horizontal metal grille through which water, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot.
- A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning.
Verb
- (transitive) To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars.
- (transitive, cooking) To shred things, usually foodstuffs, by rubbing across a grater.
- (intransitive) To rub against, making a (usually unpleasant) squeaking sound.
- (by extension, intransitive) To grate on one’s nerves; to irritate or annoy.
- (by extension, transitive, obsolete) To annoy.
Adjektiv
- (obsolete) Serving to gratify; agreeable.
Exempel
- The grate stopped the sheep from escaping from their field.
- a secret grate of iron bars
- to grate a window
- I need to grate the cheese before the potato is cooked.
- The gate suddenly grated. It was Lestiboudois; he came to fetch his spade, that he had forgotten. He recognised Justin climbing over the wall, and at last knew who was the culprit who stole his potatoes.
- The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.
- Listening to his teeth grate all day long drives me mad.
- The chalk grated against the board.
- She’s nice enough, but she can begin to grate if there is no-one else to talk to.
- News, my good lord Rome [...] grates me.
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