Grating is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GRATING in dictionary:

VERB:
• reduce (food) to small shreds by rubbing it on a grater
• make an unpleasant rasping sound
• have an irritating effect
NOUN:
• a network of bars covering an opening
• the recess of a fireplace or furnace
• a metal frame for holding fuel in a fireplace or furnace.
• a grating.
• A partition, covering, or frame of parallel or cross bars; a latticework resembling a window grate; as, the grating of a prison or convent.
• 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.
• The strong wooden lattice used to cover a hatch, admitting light and air; also, a movable Lattice used for the flooring of boats.
• A harsh sound caused by attrition.
• a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air
• a frame of iron bars to hold a fire
• 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
• framework of metal bars covering an opening
ADJECTIVE:
• rasping
• harsh or rasping
• That grates; making a harsh sound; harsh.
• unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to reduce to shreds by rubbing

Words related to GRATING

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How to use GRATING in a sentence

• Dan, who had preceded the others, crossed the grating and found the second ladder.
• The jumper started slowly, then, gaining speed, rushed down the hill like a thunderbolt, the hardened snow screaming beneath in its grating passage.
• Here Don Sanchez ringing a bell, a little grating in the door is opened, and after some parley we are admitted by a sturdy fellow carrying a cudgel in his hand.
• Old Mizzou said it was the grating of boulders as they were rolled along the bed of the stream.
• He found himself on a heap of rags in a large cellar which depended for its light on a grating let into the pavement of the street above.
• The moonlight shone dimly and more dimly through the grating, and soon had disappeared.
• He could come and go without being conscious of a pair of eyes glaring upon him and without hearing words of indignation stifled between grating teeth.
• In another corner sat Wealthea Backus, grating some cocoanut.
• One was a rudely-carved image of the Virgin in a niche covered by a grating.
• The car door opened and banged shut, then the garage door slid open, grating on the sill, and the car door again.
• Then the door clanged shut and the sound of grating bolts was heard on the other side.
• The cellar beneath was large, and dimly illuminated through a grating let into the wall just above the level of the ground.
• He left me without a word, and locked behind him a grating of stout iron bars which filled all the space between floor and roof.
• In length, my room was thirty paces from the iron grating to the opening in the face of the cliff.
• At this moment he heard a grating noise, then suddenly a terrible shock which shook the vessel from prow to stern.
• Maclean nodded, crossed the grating, and began to climb.
• He could easily lift up the grating, but when his head was in he could not so easily get it out again.
• The collision of the rings produces a harsh, grating noise, loud enough to be heard at a considerable distance.
• A rope, which is kept out of sight in these arrangements, is then made fast to the grating, for a purpose which will be seen presently.
• Her officers and people were all saved, having been dragged on shore, through the surf, on a grating.
• They could hear the crackling of the pile on high within the iron grating.
• Then, seeming to brace herself by a tighter clasp on the hard steel grating, she listened while he spoke.
• Its immense weight caused an unusually sharp grating sound as it moved upon its hinges.
• The expression of his face is quite lost, and only the harsh and grating tones of his voice produce their full effect on the ear.
• Once, with an awful thunderous grating of the brakes, the car was pulled up, and everybody tried to see what had provoked the sense of accident.

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