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The correct spelling is grate.
How to pronounce grate
/ɡɹeɪt/
nounIPA: /ɡɹeɪt/
Say it like: Gra-te
The correct spelling is grate. A horizontal metal grill through which water, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot For example: "The grate stopped the sheep from escaping from their field."
Usage Examples
“The grate stopped the sheep from escaping from their field.”
“to grate a window”
“I need to grate the cheese before the potato is cooked.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.A horizontal metal grill through which water, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot
- 2.A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning
verb
- 1.To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars
- 2.To shred (things, usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater
- 3.To make an unpleasant rasping sound, often as the result of rubbing against something
- 4.(by extension) to get on one's nerves; to irritate, annoy
- 5.(by extension) to annoy
adjective
- 1.Serving to gratify; agreeable.
- 2.Relatively large in scale, size, extent, number (i.e. having many parts or members) or duration (i.e. relatively long); very big.
- 3.Of larger size or more importance than others of its kind.
- 4.(qualifying nouns of family relationship) Involving more generations than the qualified word implies — as many extra generations as repetitions of the word great (from 1510s). [see Derived terms]
- 5.(followed by 'with') Pregnant; large with young; full of.
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