grate

== English == === Pronunciation === enPR: grāt, IPA(key): /ɡɹeɪt/ Rhymes: -eɪt Homophone: great === Etymology 1 === From Middle English grate, from a Medieval Latin crāta, from a Latin word for a hurdle; or Italian grata, from Latin cratis. ==== Noun ==== grate (plural grates) A horizontal metal grill through which liquid, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot. A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning. (historical) A grapper, a metal ring on a lance behind the grip. ===== Synonyms ===== grill ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== 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. === Etymology 2 === From Middle English graten, from Old French grater (“to scrape”) ( > French gratter), from Frankish *krattōn, from Proto-Germanic *krattōną. 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) (transitive, cooking) To shred (things, usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater. (intransitive) To make an unpleasant rasping sound, often as the result of rubbing against something. Synonym: scrape 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. (by extension, intransitive) To get on one's nerves; to irritate, annoy. (by extension, transitive) To annoy. 2015, Art Levy in Florida Trend, Roland Martin is a Florida 'Icon' one of the issues that's kind of grating me a little bit is weed control. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 3 === From Latin grātus (“agreeable”). ==== Adjective ==== grate (comparative more grate, superlative most grate) (obsolete) Serving to gratify; agreeable. ===== Derived terms ===== === 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 === References === === Anagrams === 'Gater, Gater, Greta, ergat-, great, great-, retag, targe, terga == Italian == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɡra.te/ Rhymes: -ate Hyphenation: grà‧te === Adjective === grate f feminine plural of grato === Anagrams === terga == Latin == === Etymology === From grātus (“agreeable”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɡraː.teː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɡraː.te] === Adverb === grātē (comparative grātius, superlative grātissimē) gladly, willingly gratefully, thankfully ==== Related terms ==== === References === “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 == Spanish == === Verb === grate inflection of gratar: first/third-person singular present subjunctive third-person singular imperative == Yola == === Etymology === From Middle English grote. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɡraːt/ === Noun === grate groat (old coin) === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 43