Grate

Quick meaning: Grate is a noun meaning A horizontal metal grill through which liquid, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot.

Meaning

A horizontal metal grill through which liquid, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot.

More Meanings

1. A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning.
2. (transitive) To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars.
3. (transitive, cooking) To shred (things, usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater.
4. (intransitive) To make an unpleasant rasping sound, often as the result of rubbing against something.
5. (by extension, intransitive) To get on one's nerves; to irritate, annoy.
6. (by extension, transitive) To annoy.
7. (historical) A grapper, a metal ring on a lance behind the grip.

Example Sentences

to grate a window

a secret grate of iron bars

I need to grate the cheese before the potato is cooked.

Listening to his teeth grate all day long drives me mad.

Word Forms

• grates
• grating
• grated

Synonyms for grate

Depending on context, synonyms include grill, scrape, fret, grating, grind, rankle.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include grind, fret, scrape, rankle, grill, fireplace.

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