grating

Meanings

Adjective

• Harsh and unpleasant.
• Abrasive; tending to annoy.

Noun

• A barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air.
• A frame of iron bars to hold a fire.
• The loose material that comes from something being grated.
• An optical system of close equidistant and parallel lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing spectra by diffraction.
• The strong wooden lattice used to cover a hatch, admitting light and air; also, a movable lattice used for the flooring of boats.
• The sound made by something that grates against something else.

Verb

• Present participle of grate

Related

Similar words

• grill