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grat·ing

 (grā′tĭng)
n.
1. A grill or network of bars set in a window or door or used as a partition; a grate.
2. A diffraction grating.
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grating

(ˈɡreɪtɪŋ)
n
1. (Building) Also called: grate a framework of metal bars in the form of a grille set into a wall, pavement, etc, serving as a cover or guard but admitting air and sometimes light
2. (General Physics) short for diffraction grating

grating

(ˈɡreɪtɪŋ)
adj
1. (of sounds) harsh and rasping
2. annoying; irritating
n
(often plural) something produced by grating
ˈgratingly adv
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grat•ing1

(ˈgreɪ tɪŋ)

n.
1. a fixed frame of bars or the like covering an opening to exclude persons, animals, coarse material, or objects while admitting light, air, or fine material.
2. diffraction grating.
[1605–15]

grat•ing2

(ˈgreɪ tɪŋ)

adj.
1. irritating; abrasive: a grating personality.
2. (of sound) harsh; discordant.
[1555–65]
grat′ing•ly, adv.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.grating - a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting airgrating - a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air
grate
barrier - a structure or object that impedes free movement
radiator grille, grille - grating that admits cooling air to car's radiator
2.grating - a frame of iron bars to hold a firegrating - a frame of iron bars to hold a fire
grate
framework - a structure supporting or containing something
furnace - an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.
cooking stove, kitchen range, kitchen stove, stove, range - a kitchen appliance used for cooking food; "dinner was already on the stove"
3.grating - optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it; disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum
diffraction grating
echelon - a diffraction grating consisting of a pile of plates of equal thickness arranged stepwise with a constant offset
optical device - a device for producing or controlling light
Adj.1.grating - unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice"
rasping, raspy, gravelly, scratchy, rough
cacophonic, cacophonous - having an unpleasant sound; "as cacophonous as a henyard"- John McCarten
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grating

1
noun grille, grid, grate, lattice, trellis, gridiron an open grating in the sidewalk

grating

2
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grating

adjective
Disagreeable to the sense of hearing:
dry, harsh, hoarse, jarring, rasping, raspy, raucous, rough, scratchy, squawky, strident.
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Translations
حاجِز مُشَبَّكذو صَرير، مُزْعِج
mřížovískřípavý
ristskurrende
arinaristikkoritilä
járngrindskapraunandi
režģis
ızgarakulak tırmalayıcı

grating

1 [ˈgreɪtɪŋ] N (in wall, pavement) → reja f, enrejado m

grating

2 [ˈgreɪtɪŋ] ADJ [tone etc] → áspero
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grating

[ˈgreɪtɪŋ]
n (= iron bars) → grille f
adj [noise] → grinçant(e)
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

grating

1
n → Gitter nt

grating

2
adj → kratzend; sound → quietschend; (= rasping) → knirschend; (on nerves) → auf die Nerven gehend; voice → schrill
n → Kratzen nt; (of rusty door) → Quietschen nt; (of teeth, feet on gravel) → Knirschen nt
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grating

1 [ˈgreɪtɪŋ] n (in wall, pavement) → grata

grating

2 [ˈgreɪtɪŋ] adj (sound) → stridulo/a, stridente
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

grating2

(ˈgreitiŋ) noun
a framework of iron etc bars. a grating in the road.
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It received such light as it got through a grating of iron bars fashioned like a pretty large window, by means of which it could be always inspected from the gloomy staircase on which the grating gave.
The man who lay on the ledge of the grating was even chilled.
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Such was the din of the bells and the squalling of the cats, that though the duke and duchess were the contrivers of the joke they were startled by it, while Don Quixote stood paralysed with fear; and as luck would have it, two or three of the cats made their way in through the grating of his chamber, and flying from one side to the other, made it seem as if there was a legion of devils at large in it.
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He had heard the grating of the ladder on the wall, and I saw the monstrous back of the man raise itself.
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'prentice groped his way; and stopping at a house from whose defaced and rotten front the rude effigy of a bottle swung to and fro like some gibbeted malefactor, struck thrice upon an iron grating with his foot.
'It's so late, we gave you up,' returned the voice, as its owner stopped to shut and fasten the grating. 'You're late, sir.'
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Through the grating, however, Dantes saw they were passing through the Rue Caisserie, and by the Rue Saint-Laurent and the Rue Taramis, to the port.
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There was also a very small grating which let in a very little fresh air: the massive foundations had been tunnelled in one place; a rude alcove was the result, with this grating at the end and top of it, some seven feet above the earth floor.
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The man contented himself by briefly replying 'Wisitors;' and taking him by the arm in exactly the same manner as the constable had done the day before, led him, through several winding ways and strong gates, into a passage, where he placed him at a grating and turned upon his heel.
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Clinging to the grating for support he dared not turn his head in the direction of the beasts behind him.
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At the hour appointed, Lord de Winter and the four friends repaired to the convent; the bells tolled, the chapel was open, the grating of the choir was closed.
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"These gentlemen, Comminges, are not prisoners," returned Mazarin, with his ironical smile, "only guests; but guests so precious that I have put a grating before each of their windows and bolts to their doors, that they may not refuse to continue my visitors.
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