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Definition grate

Etymology 1

Perhaps from a Late Latin or Vulgar Latin grata, from a Latin word for a hurdle; or Italian grata, from Latin cratis.

Noun

grate (plural grates)

1. a horizontal metal grill 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

Verb

grate (third-person singular simple present grates, present participle grating, simple past and past participle grated)

1. (transitive) to furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old French grater (“to scrape”) ( > French gratter), from Frankish *kratt?n, from Proto-Germanic *kratt?n?. Cognate with Old High German krazzon ( > German kratzen (“to scrawl”) > Danish kradse), Icelandic krassa (“to scrawl”) and Danish kratte.

Verb

grate (third-person singular simple present grates, present participle grating, simple past and past participle grated)

1. (transitive, cooking) to shred things, usually foodstuffs, by rubbing across a grater
2. (intransitive) to make an unpleasant rasping sound, often as the result of rubbing against something
3. (by extension, intransitive) to grate on one’s nerves; to irritate, annoy
4. (by extension, transitive, obsolete) to annoy

Etymology 3

From Latin gr?tus (“agreeable”).

Adjective

grate (comparative more grate, superlative most grate)

1. (obsolete) serving to gratify; agreeable.

Etymology 4

Adjective

grate (comparative more grate, superlative most grate)

1. Obsolete spelling of great

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