grate

Meanings

Noun

  • a horizontal metal grill 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

  • to furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars
  • to shred (things, usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater
  • to make an unpleasant rasping sound, often as the result of rubbing against something
  • to get on one's nerves; to irritate, annoy
  • to annoy

Adjective

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Origin

  • From Middle English grate, from a Medieval Latin grāta, from a Latin word for a hurdle; or Italian grata, from Latin cratis.
  • From Middle English graten, from Old French grater ( > French gratter), from Frankish *krattōn, from Proto-Germanic *krattōną. Cognate with Old High German krazzon ( > German kratzen > Danish kradse), Icelandic krassa and Danish kratte.
  • From Latin grātus.

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