grate
IPA: grˈeɪt
noun
- A horizontal metal grill through which liquid, 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.
- (historical) A grapper, a metal ring on a lance behind the grip.
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 make an unpleasant rasping sound, often as the result of rubbing against something.
- (by extension, intransitive) To get on one's nerves; to irritate, annoy.
- (by extension, transitive) To annoy.
adjective
- (obsolete) Serving to gratify; agreeable.
- Obsolete spelling of great [Having much size; large.]
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