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verb ɡreɪtɡreɪt 1with object Reduce (food) to small shreds by rubbing it on a grater. peel and roughly grate the carrots Example sentencesExamples - Place all dried fruits, grated apple, mixed peel, cherries, rinds and juices into a large mixing bowl and pour over the brandy/rum and essences.
- A popular dessert is grated banana cooked in sweetened coconut milk.
- I used half a head of savoy, finely shredded, and one finely grated carrot.
- The sauce includes ground beef, tomato paste, garlic powder, eggs, grated cheese, and a dash of curry powder.
- Depending on age and skill level, many children can grate cheese, shred lettuce, mix batter, and more.
- Slice the onions into half-moons, grate the ginger, grate the garlic, slice the leek into thin rounds.
- You can also grate the crumbs by hand using a cheese grater.
- For an extra treat, you can add some grated cheese or chopped tomatoes to the stuffing.
- Clean, peel and grate potatoes and red apple, place into a large bowl of cold water and allow starch to exit the potatoes.
- Three generous slices of ham, grated cheese, tomato, cucumber and lettuce left me well satisfied.
- However, I always have a dish of finely grated hard cheese to sprinkle over.
- Remove from heat and stir in 3 tablespoons lemon juice, 2 teaspoons grated lemon rind and 1 tablespoon butter or margarine.
- Traditional additions to such a risotto would include finely grated lemon rind, and freshly picked peas with lots of black pepper.
- When required to make plum pudding, the chefs would draw out measured quantities of the mixture and add fresh apple and grated carrot, besides spices such as cinnamon, cardamom and nutmeg.
- Try adding chopped herbs, grated lemon and orange rind, pesto, saffron, paprika, different mustards, spices, olive paste - anything as long as it tastes good.
- The tomatoes were freshly cut, the cheese was freshly grated and the dried oregano and olive oil beautifully brought out the different flavours.
- These are sponge-cake cubes coated with chocolate and grated coconut.
- Finely grate the orange and lemon zest into the cheese and sugar then beat until mixed.
- I spent the evening cooking the meat, heating the refried beans, grating cheese, shredding lettuce, chopping vegetables and frying the tortillas.
- You can even make gougères, or cheese puffs, by omitting the sugar and adding grated cheese to the dough.
Synonyms shred, rub into pieces, pulverize, mince, grind, granulate, crush, crumble, mash, smash, fragment, macerate technical triturate 2no object Make an unpleasant rasping sound. the hinges of the door grated Example sentencesExamples - There's that sickeningly familiar tone again - the rasping, grating, in isolation entirely inoffensive, six-string bravado.
- The sound of stone grating on stone echoed in her ears as two more openings appeared on the wall she was running toward, and sand started pouring out of them.
- But it sounds almost like it's grating sometimes.
- The sound of police boots grating on the stone floor adds an ominous tone to the prison scenes.
- Loud, grating, obnoxious sound effects spew from your speakers at seemingly random times.
- As the sound grated through my fluffy pillows, I sighed heavily, and debated whether I should bother getting up for school.
- Jake chuckled, it sounded like nails grating on a chalk board as he hopped up onto the stained mattress above Asia's head.
- A moment later, a slot in the door grates open and through it I see two dark eyes, staring into me.
- The next morning, I woke as the door closed and the key grated once more.
- Mid-sentence, her voice morphed into something ugly and grating, something rough and cold and frightening.
- A key grated in the lock, and the door swung open.
- The man laughed, his voice full of the sound of shards of glass grating together.
- His thoughts were confirmed when he heard the sound of rusted metal grating.
- Lilly snickered, her breath rasping and grating as she tried to move her head closer to her mistress.
- I was awakened suddenly this morning by the terrible sound of metal grating upon metal.
- Orchestras were no longer needed, along with screen actors who had voices that grated or squeaked.
Synonyms rasp, scrape, jar, scratch, grind, rub, drag, grit squeak, screech, creak - 2.1 Have an irritating effect.
the buzzing sound grated on her nerves Example sentencesExamples - Her only reply was that earthy laugh which grated on him so much.
- The girl's gentle laughing grated on Allie for some strange reason while her eyes followed the woman's movements.
- The laughter grated on his ears as it echoed off the walls.
- But a few days later, it grated on me, so I called them up.
- While the film moved me, it grated on some critics.
- Her voice is kind of strange actually, a nice sound but some notes grate on the nerves as she sings on about nothing but love and loss.
- If that strikes you as off-putting, I can't blame you: parts of the film certainly grated on me a little.
- She had wit, and not the kind of wit that grated on the nerves.
- It grated on him when his advice was not heeded, more so because it often turned out that he had been more right than wrong.
- His sarcasm grated on her nerves like sandpaper.
- His voice grates on me and I cringe the whole time. He's a hateful sexist man.
- All that has happened is that changes in pronunciation have grated on the ears of some people.
- The incessant barking of the bloodhounds grated on Bryony's nerves, and Drake's movements jarred her concentration.
- As ever, his arrogance and ignorance grated on everyone who cannot abide him, and left those who adore him in raptures.
- However annoying it was and however much it grated on her nerves, something in the back of her mind told her to leave it as it was.
- He laughed, again that dry little laugh which grated on my nerves.
- The harsh, bitter sound in his voice grates on the ears worse than the nails on the chalkboard deal.
- Maybe that was nice British talk, but those words grated on Paul.
- He wasn't slimy or anything, just had an attitude that grated on my nerves.
- That grin grated on my nerves, infuriating me further.
Synonyms irritate, set someone's teeth on edge, jar irk, exasperate, annoy, vex, nettle, peeve, rankle, anger, rub up the wrong way, chafe, fret, eat away at informal get on someone's nerves, get under someone's skin, rile, aggravate, get someone's goat
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French grater, of Germanic origin; related to German kratzen 'to scratch'. Grate ‘to shred’ is from Old French grater ‘grate, scratch’, of Germanic origin; it is related to German kratzen ‘to scratch’. People have being saying that something grates upon them since the early 17th century. The grate in a fire was originally a general word for ‘a grating’: it comes from Old French, based on Latin cratis ‘hurdle’, also found in griddle (Middle English), grill (mid 17th century), grille (mid 17th century), and grid (mid 19th century).
Rhymes abate, ablate, aerate, ait, await, backdate, bait, bate, berate, castrate, collate, conflate, crate, create, cremate, date, deflate, dictate, dilate, distraite, donate, downstate, eight, elate, equate, estate, fate, fête, fixate, freight, frustrate, gait, gate, gestate, gradate, great, gyrate, hate, hydrate, inflate, innate, interrelate, interstate, irate, Kate, Kuwait, lactate, late, locate, lustrate, mandate, mate, migrate, misdate, misstate, mistranslate, mutate, narrate, negate, notate, orate, ornate, Pate, placate, plate, prate, prorate, prostrate, pulsate, pupate, quadrate, rate, rotate, sate, sedate, serrate, short weight, skate, slate, spate, spectate, spruit, stagnate, state, straight, strait, Tate, tête-à-tête, Thwaite, translate, translocate, transmigrate, truncate, underrate, understate, underweight, update, uprate, upstate, up-to-date, vacate, vibrate, wait, weight noun ɡreɪtɡreɪt 1The recess of a fireplace or furnace. a small coal fire burned in the grate Example sentencesExamples - For instance, in a period decor Victorian grates are popular while for modern tastes there is a vast range of controllable fires in a variety of styles and finishes.
- The only light came from, of all things, a fire burning merrily in the grate.
- They were back home in the drawing room in Bloomsbury, with the countryside burning in the grate and the curtains drawn.
- Some people may opt for electric or gas heaters, instant warmth, but nothing beats the smell and atmosphere of logs burning in the grate, on the barbeque or on a camp fire somewhere.
- The floor was of stone, covered by the largest Turkish rug she had ever seen and, to the rear of the hall, a log fire crackled and burned in its enormous grate.
- We were met by Bob's wife and welcomed as though we had got there on time. There was a lovely coal fire burning in the grate, which had been kept ‘banked up’ all day pending our arrival.
- I look up from the fire grate where the last papers brown and curl.
- There was a fire burning in the grate, a miraculous thing.
- A small fire burning in the grate made one feel welcome.
- A bright, hot Monday morning and a warm fire burns in the grate of Guides Farm.
- When everyone seemed to be looking the other way, Mr Wright slipped into another room and took off his outfit, and then he quietly returned to the fireside where only a very small fire burned in the grate and sat down.
- A fire was burning in the grate, sending the chill from the air.
- They stripped out the fireplaces in the drawing-room and second bedroom, and replaced the former with an art deco-style grate framed by mosaic tiling and a granite hearth.
- A fire burned merrily in the little grate, below a shelf of yellowing pictures, portraits, landscapes.
- To have a log fire in the house may be beautiful if it is burning safely in the grate, but if it is burning merrily on the lounge floor the house could be burned down.
- 1.1 A metal frame for holding fuel in a fireplace or furnace.
Example sentencesExamples - The room has an antique marble fireplace with green tiled hearth and inset and a Victorian grate.
- Anthony then sees the grate of the fireplace wide open, and fire burning strongly.
- Some had fireplaces with grates, others stoves and some a combination stove and oven.
- This features a cast iron fireplace with a Georgian grate and a generous built-in book case.
- She pointed out, glancing over at its flames, burning on the grate.
2A grating. Example sentencesExamples - Food is prepared on a metal grate placed over a container of charcoal.
- Back then, they still had the old grate in the floor.
- Always place food on the cooking grate with tongs or a spatula.
- The first thing you'll see are the cooking grates.
- Place them on the cooking grate, directly over the coals (which should be white hot).
- Who can forget that famous scene of her standing over a subway grate?
- Remove this grate and you will find a ladder descending approximately 100 feet into all-consuming darkness.
- The lock came off in his hands, and he pushed open the grate.
- Steel grates are significantly stronger than the concrete being used and safer for the general public.
- Jonathan, however, was busying himself with a grate in the floor.
- The windows to the building are covered with mesh grates, the doors locked.
- There was a steel grate in the ceiling about three feet by three feet.
- Looking ahead of him, he saw a ventilation grate fall from the ceiling.
- The cells themselves, sealed by metal grates, were humid and filthy.
- He progressed gingerly towards the gauze grate in the grimy iron girdered floor and was careful not to get too close as he peered into the gloom below.
- He removed the ventilation grate aside, allowing himself to slide back onto solid ground again.
- She opened a grate at the top of the ladder and disappeared again.
- Half-way through rolling it, something peculiar revealed itself: a metal grate in the floor.
- He tossed the heavy iron grate aside and pointed into the gaping hole of darkness.
- Unfortunately, he could also see it was blocked off by an impassable steel grate.
Origin Middle English (meaning 'a grating'): from Old French, based on Latin cratis 'hurdle'. verbɡrātɡreɪt 1with object Reduce (something, especially food) to small shreds by rubbing it on a grater. peel and roughly grate the carrots Example sentencesExamples - Clean, peel and grate potatoes and red apple, place into a large bowl of cold water and allow starch to exit the potatoes.
- Three generous slices of ham, grated cheese, tomato, cucumber and lettuce left me well satisfied.
- Slice the onions into half-moons, grate the ginger, grate the garlic, slice the leek into thin rounds.
- These are sponge-cake cubes coated with chocolate and grated coconut.
- Finely grate the orange and lemon zest into the cheese and sugar then beat until mixed.
- For an extra treat, you can add some grated cheese or chopped tomatoes to the stuffing.
- Depending on age and skill level, many children can grate cheese, shred lettuce, mix batter, and more.
- You can also grate the crumbs by hand using a cheese grater.
- However, I always have a dish of finely grated hard cheese to sprinkle over.
- Place all dried fruits, grated apple, mixed peel, cherries, rinds and juices into a large mixing bowl and pour over the brandy/rum and essences.
- You can even make gougères, or cheese puffs, by omitting the sugar and adding grated cheese to the dough.
- When required to make plum pudding, the chefs would draw out measured quantities of the mixture and add fresh apple and grated carrot, besides spices such as cinnamon, cardamom and nutmeg.
- The sauce includes ground beef, tomato paste, garlic powder, eggs, grated cheese, and a dash of curry powder.
- Try adding chopped herbs, grated lemon and orange rind, pesto, saffron, paprika, different mustards, spices, olive paste - anything as long as it tastes good.
- Remove from heat and stir in 3 tablespoons lemon juice, 2 teaspoons grated lemon rind and 1 tablespoon butter or margarine.
- Traditional additions to such a risotto would include finely grated lemon rind, and freshly picked peas with lots of black pepper.
- I spent the evening cooking the meat, heating the refried beans, grating cheese, shredding lettuce, chopping vegetables and frying the tortillas.
- I used half a head of savoy, finely shredded, and one finely grated carrot.
- A popular dessert is grated banana cooked in sweetened coconut milk.
- The tomatoes were freshly cut, the cheese was freshly grated and the dried oregano and olive oil beautifully brought out the different flavours.
Synonyms shred, rub into pieces, pulverize, mince, grind, granulate, crush, crumble, mash, smash, fragment, macerate 2no object Make an unpleasant rasping sound. the hinges of the door grated Example sentencesExamples - A moment later, a slot in the door grates open and through it I see two dark eyes, staring into me.
- Jake chuckled, it sounded like nails grating on a chalk board as he hopped up onto the stained mattress above Asia's head.
- The man laughed, his voice full of the sound of shards of glass grating together.
- As the sound grated through my fluffy pillows, I sighed heavily, and debated whether I should bother getting up for school.
- A key grated in the lock, and the door swung open.
- Orchestras were no longer needed, along with screen actors who had voices that grated or squeaked.
- But it sounds almost like it's grating sometimes.
- Loud, grating, obnoxious sound effects spew from your speakers at seemingly random times.
- The next morning, I woke as the door closed and the key grated once more.
- The sound of stone grating on stone echoed in her ears as two more openings appeared on the wall she was running toward, and sand started pouring out of them.
- I was awakened suddenly this morning by the terrible sound of metal grating upon metal.
- Lilly snickered, her breath rasping and grating as she tried to move her head closer to her mistress.
- Mid-sentence, her voice morphed into something ugly and grating, something rough and cold and frightening.
- His thoughts were confirmed when he heard the sound of rusted metal grating.
- The sound of police boots grating on the stone floor adds an ominous tone to the prison scenes.
- There's that sickeningly familiar tone again - the rasping, grating, in isolation entirely inoffensive, six-string bravado.
Synonyms rasp, scrape, jar, scratch, grind, rub, drag, grit - 2.1grate against Rub against something with a rasping sound.
his helmet grated against the top of the door Example sentencesExamples - Everything went silent except for the sound of rock grating against rock.
- His voice was scratchy, grating against her ears.
- Sparks leapt from the stone as the blade grated against its surface, because Brutus had rolled over quickly and pushed himself gracefully to his feet.
- ‘Yeah, my stomach feels like its grating against a washboard,’ I replied.
- Yare twisted the key in the lock, wincing slightly as the sound grated against her eardrums.
- The slim swords grated against each other, until Kahrun pulled away, swinging his sword wide and turning a flip to land in a crouch, rolling aside as Talu tried to drive his blade into his heart, instead burying it into the wood.
- There was a sound of metal grating against metal as Aelex and Torix drew their swords.
- He doesn't have an attractive voice by any stretch of the imagination; he whines, wails, and grates against the ear.
- The ear piercing sound of metal grating against each other was heard, and Angel could now see the attacking form.
- She also had a rip in the back of the leg from where the fabric had been worn down by grating against gravel for too long.
- The Kipha laughed, a throaty sound that was like steel grating against steel.
- ‘You're going to be late,’ mom begins, the very sound of her voice grating against my ears like nails down a chalkboard.
- My questions were soon answered, though, because the sound of wood grating against itself met my ears.
- The wall was hard against their backs, grating against their spines enough to make one wonder if some permanent back injury would emerge from the ordeal.
- The sharp sound of the blade grating against the sheath made Tia's entire body tremor in sheer horror.
- There was a loud scratching sound in between the rows of pillars at the tower gate, it sounded like wood being grated against wood.
- His face was contorted in rage, his teeth were grating against each other and his canines had grown at least a centimeter longer.
- About 10m from the jump off rock I felt the unmistakable and cringeworthy sound of my fins grating against reef… and prayed that I hadn't done any damage.
- The feeling of the small wrist bones grating against each other was beginning to make her nauseated.
- She laughed, a high-pitched, frantic sound that grated against my ears.
- 2.2 Have an irritating effect.
he had a juvenile streak that grated on her nerves Example sentencesExamples - The girl's gentle laughing grated on Allie for some strange reason while her eyes followed the woman's movements.
- She had wit, and not the kind of wit that grated on the nerves.
- But a few days later, it grated on me, so I called them up.
- While the film moved me, it grated on some critics.
- He laughed, again that dry little laugh which grated on my nerves.
- Her only reply was that earthy laugh which grated on him so much.
- However annoying it was and however much it grated on her nerves, something in the back of her mind told her to leave it as it was.
- It grated on him when his advice was not heeded, more so because it often turned out that he had been more right than wrong.
- If that strikes you as off-putting, I can't blame you: parts of the film certainly grated on me a little.
- Maybe that was nice British talk, but those words grated on Paul.
- The harsh, bitter sound in his voice grates on the ears worse than the nails on the chalkboard deal.
- As ever, his arrogance and ignorance grated on everyone who cannot abide him, and left those who adore him in raptures.
- Her voice is kind of strange actually, a nice sound but some notes grate on the nerves as she sings on about nothing but love and loss.
- His voice grates on me and I cringe the whole time. He's a hateful sexist man.
- He wasn't slimy or anything, just had an attitude that grated on my nerves.
- All that has happened is that changes in pronunciation have grated on the ears of some people.
- The laughter grated on his ears as it echoed off the walls.
- His sarcasm grated on her nerves like sandpaper.
- The incessant barking of the bloodhounds grated on Bryony's nerves, and Drake's movements jarred her concentration.
- That grin grated on my nerves, infuriating me further.
Synonyms irritate, set someone's teeth on edge, jar
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French grater, of Germanic origin; related to German kratzen ‘to scratch’. nounɡrātɡreɪt 1The recess of a fireplace or furnace. a small coal fire burned in the grate Example sentencesExamples - I look up from the fire grate where the last papers brown and curl.
- To have a log fire in the house may be beautiful if it is burning safely in the grate, but if it is burning merrily on the lounge floor the house could be burned down.
- A fire was burning in the grate, sending the chill from the air.
- There was a fire burning in the grate, a miraculous thing.
- They stripped out the fireplaces in the drawing-room and second bedroom, and replaced the former with an art deco-style grate framed by mosaic tiling and a granite hearth.
- A bright, hot Monday morning and a warm fire burns in the grate of Guides Farm.
- The only light came from, of all things, a fire burning merrily in the grate.
- Some people may opt for electric or gas heaters, instant warmth, but nothing beats the smell and atmosphere of logs burning in the grate, on the barbeque or on a camp fire somewhere.
- We were met by Bob's wife and welcomed as though we had got there on time. There was a lovely coal fire burning in the grate, which had been kept ‘banked up’ all day pending our arrival.
- A fire burned merrily in the little grate, below a shelf of yellowing pictures, portraits, landscapes.
- The floor was of stone, covered by the largest Turkish rug she had ever seen and, to the rear of the hall, a log fire crackled and burned in its enormous grate.
- A small fire burning in the grate made one feel welcome.
- For instance, in a period decor Victorian grates are popular while for modern tastes there is a vast range of controllable fires in a variety of styles and finishes.
- When everyone seemed to be looking the other way, Mr Wright slipped into another room and took off his outfit, and then he quietly returned to the fireside where only a very small fire burned in the grate and sat down.
- They were back home in the drawing room in Bloomsbury, with the countryside burning in the grate and the curtains drawn.
- 1.1 A metal frame confining fuel in a fireplace or furnace.
Example sentencesExamples - Anthony then sees the grate of the fireplace wide open, and fire burning strongly.
- She pointed out, glancing over at its flames, burning on the grate.
- This features a cast iron fireplace with a Georgian grate and a generous built-in book case.
- Some had fireplaces with grates, others stoves and some a combination stove and oven.
- The room has an antique marble fireplace with green tiled hearth and inset and a Victorian grate.
2A grating. Example sentencesExamples - Always place food on the cooking grate with tongs or a spatula.
- Place them on the cooking grate, directly over the coals (which should be white hot).
- There was a steel grate in the ceiling about three feet by three feet.
- He progressed gingerly towards the gauze grate in the grimy iron girdered floor and was careful not to get too close as he peered into the gloom below.
- Unfortunately, he could also see it was blocked off by an impassable steel grate.
- Half-way through rolling it, something peculiar revealed itself: a metal grate in the floor.
- Back then, they still had the old grate in the floor.
- Jonathan, however, was busying himself with a grate in the floor.
- The windows to the building are covered with mesh grates, the doors locked.
- The first thing you'll see are the cooking grates.
- Food is prepared on a metal grate placed over a container of charcoal.
- The cells themselves, sealed by metal grates, were humid and filthy.
- Steel grates are significantly stronger than the concrete being used and safer for the general public.
- He tossed the heavy iron grate aside and pointed into the gaping hole of darkness.
- She opened a grate at the top of the ladder and disappeared again.
- The lock came off in his hands, and he pushed open the grate.
- He removed the ventilation grate aside, allowing himself to slide back onto solid ground again.
- Who can forget that famous scene of her standing over a subway grate?
- Remove this grate and you will find a ladder descending approximately 100 feet into all-consuming darkness.
- Looking ahead of him, he saw a ventilation grate fall from the ceiling.
Origin Middle English (meaning ‘a grating’): from Old French, based on Latin cratis ‘hurdle’. |