Grating
['greɪtɪŋ] or ['gretɪŋ]
Definition
(adj.) unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; 'a gravelly voice' .
Checked by Casey--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. &. vb. n.) of Grate
(n.) A partition, covering, or frame of parallel or cross bars; a latticework resembling a window grate; as, the grating of a prison or convent.
(n.) A system of close equidistant and parallel lines lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing spectra by diffraction; -- called also diffraction grating.
(n.) The strong wooden lattice used to cover a hatch, admitting light and air; also, a movable Lattice used for the flooring of boats.
(a.) That grates; making a harsh sound; harsh.
(n.) A harsh sound caused by attrition.
Checker: Ramona
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Harsh, irritating, displeasing, disagreeable, offensive.
Checker: Marsha
Examples
- Not up, I replied, for I noticed particularly that while the building is roofless it is covered with a strong metal grating. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- At the end of this line it is shaken out over a grating, and the sand handled in the same manner as on the smaller conveyors. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The grating wind sawed rather than blew; and as it sawed, the sawdust whirled about the sawpit. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The harsh grating noise of something heavy that he was moving unseen to me sounded for a moment, then ceased. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- These open-coil grills are also very efficient as toasters, the bread being placed on top of the grating, which protects the coils from injury. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Nor was it unwarranted: in five minutes more the grating key, the yielding lock, warned me my watch was relieved. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- More than I am likely to get anywhere, said Lydgate, with rather a grating sarcasm in his tone. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- We both put our eyes to the grating. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Then slowly they retreated but this time with a strange grating sound and finally they disappeared in some black and distant recess of my dungeon. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the bell. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- To determine this the fluorescing screen and grating are placed under the patient, and the X-Ray tube above, and the vertical line of the object is thus obtained. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- As the words passed his lips the clerk joined us, and at the same moment there was another and a last grating turn of the key in the lock. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It admitted them into a lodge or lobby, across which they passed, and so through another door and a grating into the prison. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- No more taunts on my intellect, no more menaces of grating public shows! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The man who lay on the ledge of the grating was even chilled. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
Editor: Quentin