| 单词 | grating |
| 释义 | grating (once / 1399 pages) 1adj 2n 3n WORD FAMILY grating: gratingly, gratings+/grate: grated, grateful, grater, grates, grating/grateful: gratefuler, gratefulest, gratefully, gratefulness, ungrateful/grater: graters/ungrateful: ungratefulest, ungratefully, ungratefulness/ungratefulness: ungratefulnesses USAGE EXAMPLESWould the fast-paced writing that initially charmed me now seem grating? Washington Post(Dec 22, 2016) What Whyte was describing was an America in which, grating to him, the Social Ethic was starting to gain momentum. The New Yorker(Dec 29, 2016) “My Scrooge is not that. He’s scratchy. It’s annoying and grating, but it evolves from there.” Washington Post(Dec 23, 2016) 1 adj unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound 2Syn gravelly, rasping, raspy, rough, scratchy cacophonic, cacophonous having an unpleasant sound 1n a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air Syn|Hypo|Hyper grate grille, radiator grille grating that admits cooling air to car's radiator barrier a structure or object that impedes free movement 2n a frame of iron bars to hold a fire 3Syn|Hyper grate framework a structure supporting or containing something n 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 Syn|Hypo|Hyper 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 |
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