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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Words that contain 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.

Similar words containing GRAT without suffix ing

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