Grating Common

Grating has 7 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Adjective

Definitions

Noun

a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air

"The prison cell featured a heavy iron grating over the window to keep inmates secure while allowing ventilation."

grate grating

a frame of iron bars to hold a fire

"He carefully placed the logs on the grating before lighting them in the fireplace."

grate grating

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

"The physicist adjusted the grating on the spectrometer to separate the starlight into its constituent colors for analysis."

diffraction grating grating

A barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air.

"The cat poked its head through the metal grating in the basement door to sniff at the leftovers on the floor."

Verb

present participle of grate

"The sound of the cheese being grated on the metal board was incredibly grating to my ears."

Adjective

unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound

"a gravelly voice"

grating gravelly rasping raspy rough scratchy

Harsh and unpleasant.

"The constant sound of his fingernails on the chalkboard was absolutely grating to my ears."