grate
English
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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)
- a horizontal metal grill through which water, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot
- The grate stopped the sheep from escaping from their field.
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- a secret grate of iron bars
- a frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning
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Verb
grate (third-person singular simple present grates, present participle grating, simple past and past participle grated)
- (transitive) to furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars
- to grate a window
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Old French grater (“to scrape”) ( > French gratter), from Frankish *krattōn, from Proto-Germanic *krattōną. Cognate with Old High German krazzon[1] ( > German kratzen (“to scrawl”) > Danish kradse), Icelandic krassa (“to scrawl”) [2] and Danish kratte.
Verb
grate (third-person singular simple present grates, present participle grating, simple past and past participle grated)
- (transitive, cooking) to shred things, usually foodstuffs, by rubbing across a grater
- I need to grate the cheese before the potato is cooked.
- (intransitive) to make an unpleasant rasping sound, often as the result of rubbing against something
- 1856, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part 3 Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
- The gate suddenly grated. It was Lestiboudois; he came to fetch his spade, that he had forgotten. He recognised Justin climbing over the wall, and at last knew who was the culprit who stole his potatoes.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 7, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.
- Listening to his teeth grate all day long drives me mad.
- The chalk grated against the board.
- 1856, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part 3 Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
- (by extension, intransitive) to grate on one’s nerves; to irritate, annoy
- She’s nice enough, but she can begin to grate if there is no-one else to talk to.
- (by extension, transitive, obsolete) to annoy
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- News, my good lord Rome […] grates me.
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Etymology 3
From Latin grātus (“agreeable”).
Adjective
grate (comparative more grate, superlative most grate)
- (obsolete) serving to gratify; agreeable.
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Etymology 4
Adjective
grate (comparative more grate, superlative most grate)
- Obsolete spelling of great.
- c. 1815, Mary Woody, A true account of Nayomy Wise
- He promisd her a grate reward
- c. 1815, Mary Woody, A true account of Nayomy Wise
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Italian
Pronunciation
Adjective
grate f
- (deprecated template usage) Feminine plural of adjective grato.
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Latin
Etymology
From grātus (“agreeable”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈɡraː.teː/, [ˈɡräːt̪eː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈɡra.te/, [ˈɡräːt̪e]
Adverb
grātē (comparative grātius, superlative grātissimē)
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- “grate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “grate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
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