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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
grate
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
grate cheese (=cut it into many small pieces using a special tool)
▪ Would you grate some cheese for me?
grated cheese (=that has been cut into many small pieces using a special tool)
▪ Cover the vegetables with the grated cheese.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
empty
▪ A pleated white paper fan perched in the empty grate below.
▪ Unable to afford coal, they sit and stare at an empty grate.
▪ There sat Mary, by the empty grate!
▪ And only their Maria would have thought of putting that big jug of orange flowers in the empty grate.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fresh-made/fresh-cut/fresh-grated etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The homeless slept on subway grates to keep warm.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A thousand people, mostly men, gathered around the grate one day last spring to witness a double execution.
▪ Even with the furnace on, he had the servants put coal in the grates of most of the rooms.
▪ Fires smouldered in the grates of sitting-rooms, but the passages and bedrooms at Kinton were apt to be piercingly cold.
▪ She took the two halves of the letter away, tore them in fragments, and burned them in her grate.
▪ The scrubbing was the nastiest, she thought despairingly, bad though blacking the grates, particularly the kitchen range, was.
▪ The windows were covered with iron grates.
▪ Those in front clambered up on to the grates that covered the entrance.
▪ Through the slate-floored living-room, with its exposed beams, open grate and massive heart-of-oak mantelpiece, was the kitchen.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
freshly
▪ The gravy calls for cream and freshly grated nutmeg.
▪ Let the soup warm through completely, then serve with a dusting of freshly grated nutmeg.
■ NOUN
cheese
▪ Blend with cream cheese and grated Cheddar to create a cheese spread.
teaspoon
▪ Pour on tomato sauce and sprinkle 1 teaspoon grated Parmesan cheese over top of each.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I always like to grate some cheese over the potatoes before serving them.
▪ The Parmesan cheese was freshly grated.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Although their characters grate, the performances almost always please.
▪ Cool on a wire rack, then cut in two horizontally. 4 To make filling, finely grate orange.
▪ Drain well. 3 Peel and roughly grate the carrots.
▪ She started to grate the cheese.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grate

Grate \Grate\, a. [L. gratus agreeable, grateful: cf. It. & Sp. grato. See Grace, and cf. Agree.] Serving to gratify; agreeable. [Obs.]
--Sir T. Herbert.

Grate

Grate \Grate\, v. i.

  1. To make a harsh sound by friction.

    I had rather hear a brazen canstick turned, Or a dry wheel grate on the exletree.
    --Shak.

  2. To produce the effect of rubbing with a hard rough material; to cause wearing, tearing, or bruising. Hence; To produce exasperation, soreness, or grief; to offend by oppression or importunity.

    This grated harder upon the hearts of men.
    --South.

Grate

Grate \Grate\, n. [LL. grata, fr. L. crates hurdle; or It. grata, of the same origin. Sae Crate, Hurdle.]

  1. A structure or frame containing parallel or crosed bars, with interstices; a kind of latticework, such as is used ia the windows of prisons and cloisters. ``A secret grate of iron bars.''
    --Shak.

  2. A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning.

    Grate surface (Steam, Boiler) the area of the surface of the grate upon which the fuel lies in the furnace.

Grate

Grate \Grate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Grated; p. pr. & vb. n. Grating.] To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars; as, to grate a window.

Grate

Grate \Grate\, v. t. [OF grater to scrape, scratch, F. gratter, LL. gratare, cratare; of German origin; cf. OHG. chrazz[=o]n G. kratzen, D. krassen, Sw. Kratta, and perh. E. scratch.]

  1. To rub roughly or harshly, as one body against another, causing a harsh sound; as, to grate the teeth; to produce (a harsh sound) by rubbing.

    On their hinges grate Harsh thunder.
    --Milton.

  2. To reduce to small particles by rubbing with anything rough or indented; as, to grate a nutmeg.

  3. To fret; to irritate; to offend.

    News, my good lord Rome . . . grates me.
    --Shak.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
grate

late 14c., "grill for cooking;" early 15c., "iron bars or cagework across a door or windows," from Anglo-Latin (mid-14c.), from Old French grate or directly from Medieval Latin grata "lattice," from Latin cratis "wickerwork, hurdle" (see hurdle). As a verb meaning "to fit with a grate," from mid-15c. Related: Grated; grating.

grate

"to scrape, rub," late 14c. (implied in grated), from Old French grater "to scrape" (Modern French gratter), from Frankish *kratton, from Proto-Germanic *krattojan (cognates: Old High German krazzon "to scratch, scrape," German kratzen "to scratch," Swedish kratta, Danish kratte "to rake"), probably of imitative origin. Senses of "sound harshly," and "annoy" are mid-16c. Italian grattare also is from Germanic. Related: Grated; grating.

Wiktionary
grate

Etymology 1 n. 1 A horizontal metal grille through which water, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot. 2 A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning. vb. (context transitive English) To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars. Etymology 2

vb. 1 (context transitive cooking English) To shred things, usually foodstuffs, by rubbing across a grater. 2 (context intransitive English) To rub against, making a (usually unpleasant) squeaking sound. Etymology 3

  1. (context obsolete English) Serving to gratify; agreeable.

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WordNet
grate

  1. v. furnish with a grate; "a grated fireplace"

  2. gnaw into; make resentful or angry; "The unjustice rankled her"; "his resentment festered" [syn: eat into, fret, rankle]

  3. reduce to small shreds or pulverize by rubbing against a rough or sharp perforated surface; "grate carrots and onions"; "grate nutmeg"

  4. make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together; "grate one's teeth in anger" [syn: grind]

  5. scratch repeatedly; "The cat scraped at the armchair" [syn: scrape]

grate

  1. n. a frame of iron bars to hold a fire [syn: grating]

  2. a harsh rasping sound made by scraping something

  3. a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air [syn: grating]

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Wikipedia
Grate

Grate may refer to:

  • Grating, a covering of a drain
  • The act of using a grater, a kitchen utensil
  • Grille, a barrier through which small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot
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Usage examples of "grate".

Eager and anxious, the beasts of Tarzan sniffed the familiar air of their native island as the small boats drew in toward the beach, and scarce had their keels grated upon the sand than Sheeta and the apes of Akut were over the bows and racing swiftly toward the jungle.

Spoon and Dirty Sock, she all ashiver, he irritated by a piece of wood shaving that had caught in his threads, perched on the ledge before the grate.

She leaned forward, caught at a backstay, and snatched her legs from the water in a final spasm of terror before swivelling round and rolling over on to the cockpit grating deck.

Arithelli cleaned the doorsteps and the kitchen stove, blackleaded the grates and prepared the meals, which more often than not consisted only of potatoes and tea.

A servant fresh from the blackleading of a grate opened the door to them, grinning with recognition at the sight of Mutimer.

Niello, after a few seasons polishing up fire irons and blackleading grates had driven me demented with boredom.

I only went to the parlour of the lazaretto, where, placed behind a grating, you can speak to any person who calls, and who must stand behind another grating placed opposite, at a distance of six feet.

Place onion, celery, peppers, parsley, green onion and grated carot in and saut until onion starts to turn clear.

They would have to squat or lie on the grating and lean downward to nail the cleats across the canvas.

A teacupful of this Chamomile tea, into which is stirred a large dessertspoonful of moist sugar, with a little grated ginger added, will answer the purpose now indicated.

The timbre of his voice was harsh and grating, yet it was a very interesting, even a seductive, voice, and, Domini thought, peculiarly full of vivid life, though not of energy.

Darwin speaks of the hissing of certain snakes, the rattle of the rattle-snake, the grating of the scales of the echis, each of which serves to frighten or terrify the enemy.

Add finely chopped shallot, two eggs, salt, pepper, and grated nutmeg.

Working together, with hands extended through the grating, Theseus and Daedalus turned the log endwise and pulled it through, a process delayed by the necessity of hacking off one more branch.

It was a resonating, loud, grating voice, obviously from someone with an im-m ense chest, and something told Wind Made by Wings, even while his whole body and soul were concentrated in combat, that this -was the voice of the Alengwyneh king himself.