grating
gray ting
- 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.