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• n  a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air
• n  a frame of iron bars to hold a fire
• n  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
• v  furnish with a grate
• v  gnaw into; make resentful or angry
• v  reduce to small shreds or pulverize by rubbing against a rough or sharp perforated surface
• v  make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
• v  scratch repeatedly
• s  unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound

• The toughest job a highbrow machinist can tackle is to make a diffraction grating.
• The making of You and I, the third film produced in Moscow for a Western audience, has been awash with such cultural exchanges, Russian obliqueness grating against the time-is .
• But a fusillade of machine-gun fire stopped him on the grating; hit by seven bullets in the head and neck, he crumpled to the ground.

• grate
• diffraction grating
• eat into
• fret
• rankle
• grind
• scrape
• gravelly
• rasping
• raspy
• rough
• scratchy

News & Articles

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• New Aliso Viejo roadwork to be a day job
  With previous nighttime work in Aliso Viejo grating on residents nearby, the City Council approved an asphalt rehabilitation project on Aliso Creek Road, this one with a daytime schedule. The $485,000 contract is about $20,000 higher than a contract...
  June 21, 2013 - Aliso Viejo & Laguna Niguel News
• County Commissioners Approve Burn Ban in Ward County
  If you live in Ward County, a burn ban is now in effect. County Commissioners approved a burn ban this week. You can still burn trash but it has to be in containers covered by metal grating.
  June 20, 2013 - News West 9 Midland

Quotes

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• Daniel Tani in International Herald Tribune
  It's quite clear that it's metal-to-metal grating or something, and it's widespread,Tani said.
• Shane Bond in Sydney Morning Herald
  I was disappointed. I had to get a release from the [NZ] board to join the ICL, then they did an about-face,Bond said. "That is what is most grating - I never even got an apology. After I had signed, I was told I had to tear up the...
• Michael Kasprowicz in The Canberra Times
  He did have the knack of irritating you, grating you,Kasprowicz, who locked horns with "the Raj" on countless occasions, told The Sun-Herald between matches for the Mumbai Champs in the Indian Cricket League. "There was the third Test at...