1. n. A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used to protect something while allowing the passage of air and liquids. Typical uses: to allow air through a
2. n. On a vehicle, a slotted cover as above, to protect and hide the radiator, while admitting air to cool it.
3. n. (UK) A cooking device comprising a source of radiative heat and a means of holding food under it; a broiler in US English
4. n. (US) A cooking device comprising a source of radiative and convective heat and a means of holding food above it; a barbecue.
I put some peppers and mushrooms on the grill to go with dinner.
5. n. (colloquial) A type of jewelry worn on the front teeth.
Synonyms: fronts, golds
6. n. (colloquial, by extension) The front teeth regarded collectively.
7. n. Food cooked on a grill.
a packet of frozen cauliflower cheese grills
8. n. A grillroom; a restaurant serving grilled food.
These coupons will get you a discount at Johnny's Bar and Grill.
9. n. (internet slang) (misspelling of girl)
10. v. To cook (food) on a grill; to barbecue.
Why don't we get together Saturday and grill some burgers?
11. v. (transitive Australian NZ UK) To cook food under the element of a stove or only under the top element of an oven – (US) broil, (cooking) salamander.
12. v. (transitive, colloquial) To interrogate; to question aggressively or harshly.
The police grilled him about his movements at the time of the crime.
13. v. (intransitive, informal) To feel very hot; to swelter.
14. v. To stamp or mark with a grill.
15. v. (transitive, Scotland, US, obsolete) To make angry; provoke; incite.
16. v. (transitive, chiefly Scotland, obsolete) To terrify; make tremble.
17. v. (intransitive, chiefly Scotland, obsolete) To tremble; shiver.
18. v. (intransitive, Northern England, Scotland, obsolete) To snarl; snap.
1. n. A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle.
2. n. A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire.
3. n. (computing) A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, used mainly to solve single and complex scientific or technical problems or to process data at high s
4. n. (cartography) A method of marking off maps into areas.
5. n. (motor racing) The pattern of starting positions of the drivers for a race.
6. n. (electronics) The third (or higher) electrode of a vacuum tube (triode or higher).
7. n. (electricity) A battery-plate somewhat like a grating, especially a zinc plate in a primary battery, or a lead plate in a secondary or storage battery.
1. n. A horizontal metal grill through which water, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot.
The grate stopped the sheep from escaping from their field.
2. n. A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning.
3. v. To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars.
to grate a window
4. v. (transitive, cooking) To shred things, usually foodstuffs, by rubbing across a grater.
I need to grate the cheese before the potato is cooked.
5. v. (intransitive) To make an unpleasant rasping sound, often as the result of rubbing against something.
Listening to his teeth grate all day long drives me mad.
The chalk grated against the board.
6. v. (by extension, intransitive) To grate on one’s nerves; to irritate or annoy.
She’s nice enough, but she can begin to grate if there is no-one else to talk to.
7. v. (by extension, transitive, obsolete) To annoy.
8. adj. (obsolete) Serving to gratify; agreeable.
grating
1. adj. Grinçant, discordant, désagréable.
Grating means (typically of a voice) harsh and unpleasant.
The voice of crow is described as harsh and grating.
2. n. Grille, Grillage.
A grating is a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air.
3. n. Caillebotis
A grating is a frame of iron bars to hold a fire
4. v. Participe présent de grate.
grating
1. adj. (typically of a voice) Harsh and unpleasant.
2. adj. Abrasive; tending to annoy.
3. n. A barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air.
4. n. A frame of iron bars to hold a fire.
5. n. The loose material that comes from something being grated.
Add a few gratings of nutmeg to the hot milk.
6. n. An optical system of close equidistant and parallel lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing spectra by diffraction.
7. n. (nautical, in the plural) The strong wooden lattice used to cover a hatch, admitting light and air; also, a movable lattice used for the flooring of boats.
8. v. present participle of grate
gate
1. n. Portail.
Gate in a fence.
Portail dans une clôture.
2. n. Porte.
Airport gate.
Porte d'aéroport.
gate
1. n. A doorlike structure outside a house.
2. n. Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
3. n. Movable barrier.
The gate in front of the railroad crossing went up after the train had passed.
4. n. (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
5. n. (cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
Singh was bowled through the gate, a very disappointing way for a world-class batsman to get out.
6. n. The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
7. n. (flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
8. n. Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
9. n. (electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
10. n. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
11. n. (metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
12. n. The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
13. n. (cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
14. n. A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
15. v. To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
16. v. To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out.
17. v. (biochemistry) To open a closed ion channel.Alberts, Bruce; et al. "Figure 11-21: The gating of ion channels." In: Molecular Biology of the Cell, ed. Senior, Sarah Gibbs. New York: Garland Science, 20
18. v. To furnish with a gate.
19. v. To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage. See autogating.
20. n. (now Scotland, Northern England) A way, path.
21. n. (obsolete) A journey.
22. n. (Scotland, Northern England) A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street e.g. "Briggate" (a common street name in the north of England meaning "Bridge Street") or Ki
23. n. (Britain, Scotland, dialect, archaic) Manner; gait.
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